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News
Researchers define new subtypes of common brain disorder
Using artificial intelligence, WashU Medicine researchers from neurosurgery and computer science have identified 3 subtypes of Chiari type-1 malformations that could improve medical decision making By: Mark Reynolds Roughly 4% of the population is affected by a congenital brain malformation that has eluded researchers’ efforts to find causes and treatments. For the condition, Chiari type-1 […]
Researchers make glioblastoma cells visible to attacking immune cells
Strategy involves placing targets on deadly cancer’s cells, potentially making them vulnerable to immunotherapies By: Julia Evangelou Strait Even treated with the most advanced therapies, patients with glioblastoma — an aggressive brain cancer — typically survive less than two years after diagnosis. Efforts to treat this cancer with the latest immunotherapies have been unsuccessful, likely […]
This is(n’t) Cancer: Advances Against Brain Tumors, Benign or Not
After minor blurred vision prompted Ellen to get an eye exam, she was surprised to learn she had a mass in the middle of her brain near the nerve connected to her left eye. A referral to Siteman quickly led to the diagnosis of a brain tumor. Fortunately, it was noncancerous and had a surgical […]