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Deeper Look at Tumor’s Genetic Mutations Challenges Current Precision Medicine Approach

December 5, 2019

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Georgetown’s Aykut Üren Named National Academy of Inventors Fellow

December 3, 2019

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Nearly One-Quarter of Completed Lung Cancer Clinical Trial Results Are Not Published

November 6, 2019

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Heightened Risk of Adverse Financial Changes Before Alzheimer’s Diagnosis

WASHINGTON (October 25, 2019) — Prior to an Alzheimer’s diagnosis, a person in the early stages of the disease faces a heightened risk of adverse financial outcomes — a…

October 25, 2019

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Brain Studies Show Chronic Fatigue Syndrome and Gulf War Illness are Distinct Conditions

CHICAGO (October 23, 2019) — Gulf War Illness (GWI) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) share symptoms of disabling fatigue, pain, systemic hyperalgesia (tenderness), negative…

October 23, 2019

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Why, Sometimes, We Don’t See What We Actually Saw

WASHINGTON (October 23, 2019) — Georgetown neuroscientists say they have identified how people can have a “crash in visual processing” — a bottleneck of feedforward and…

October 23, 2019

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Novel Agent Flips on ‘Garbage Disposal’ in Neurons, Eliminating Toxic Brain Proteins in Mice

CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Neuroscientists at Georgetown University Medical Center say they have developed and tested an agent that reduces the buildup of toxic proteins in…

October 22, 2019

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Exposure to Environmental PCBs Impairs Brain Function in Mice

CHICAGO (October 22, 2019) — Human-made toxic chemicals that linger indefinitely in the environment disrupt the performance of critical helper cells in the mouse brain, leading…

October 22, 2019

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Aggressive Form of Breast Cancer Influenced by Dual Action of Genes and RNA

October 22, 2019

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Experts Show U.S. Foreign Policy Gains from a Presidential Pandemics Effort

WASHINGTON (October 10, 2019) — Analysis from leading researchers shows there could be significant benefits from a presidentially led initiative focused on combatting. …

October 10, 2019