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  • Roche cleared to launch early Alzheimer’s test in EU: company
    on May 12, 2026 at 9:30 am

    Swiss pharmaceutical giant Roche said Tuesday that it had received clearance from health safety regulators to sell a new blood test for early detection of Alzheimer’s disease in the European Union.

  • Brain histamine map connects genes to brain function and mental health
    on May 12, 2026 at 9:00 am

    New research from King’s College London and the University of Porto has mapped the histamine system in the brain. Histamine, a molecule more commonly associated with allergies, plays a separate but poorly understood role in brain function. This study addresses this gap, building the first multiscale map of the histamine system that spans from genetics to behavior and related mental health conditions.

  • Gene-edited stem cell transplant shows promise for aggressive blood cancers
    on May 12, 2026 at 9:00 am

    For highly aggressive types of blood cancer, stem cell transplantation is often the only potentially curative therapy, yet even after a transplant, these cancers often return. Now a clinical trial, led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, shows that a stem cell transplant in which the donor cells have been genetically engineered to remove a particular protein helps prevent toxic side effects and potentially improves the effectiveness of therapies given after a transplant to help prevent cancer recurrence.

  • Personalized vaccine shows promise against aggressive brain cancer
    on May 12, 2026 at 9:00 am

    A personalized vaccine to treat glioblastoma, a fast-growing and incurable brain cancer that affects four in 100,000 people in the U.S., is safe and elicits robust and broad immune responses that appear to increase recurrence-free survival in a subset of patients after surgery, according to an early-stage clinical trial co-led by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

  • Intestinal stem cells can fight back against Salmonella
    on May 12, 2026 at 9:00 am

    Researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and the Weizmann Institute of Science have identified a previously unrecognized defense mechanism in the intestine, showing that intestinal stem cells can actively respond to Salmonella infection and help protect the gut from bacterial invasion.