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Cancer FrontiersIs There a Cure for Cancer? The Better Question Is: Which Cancer, at What Stage, and With Which Treatment?
Cancer is more than 100 diseases, and whether one can be cured depends on its type, its stage and the treatments that can reach it. Here is what doctors mean by cure, remission and “no evidence of disease.”
Cancer FrontiersThe New Cancer Toolkit: Immunotherapy, Targeted Drugs, Cell Therapy, and Precision Oncology
Targeted drugs, checkpoint inhibitors, CAR-T cells and biomarker testing have joined surgery, radiation and chemotherapy. Each works differently, helps some patients dramatically and others not at all.
AI + MedicineThe MRI Reinvention: Faster Scans, Better Images, and the Real Role of AI
AI reconstruction has nearly halved knee MRI scan times in clinical studies without losing diagnostic accuracy. But networks that fill in missing data can also invent or erase detail, so validation must be specific.
AI + MedicineAI Drug Discovery: What Happens Between a Promising Molecule and a Medicine?
AI now helps find drug targets, predict protein shapes and design molecules. But most drugs fail in clinical trials because they don't work well enough or are too toxic, and AI hasn't yet shown it can change that.
Genome + CellsDecode the Genome: What Sequencing Can Tell Us—and What It Cannot
From the $3 billion Human Genome Project to routine sequencing, reading DNA has become easy. Here is what a genome can reveal today, and where uncertain variants, risk scores and missing context set hard limits.
LongevityThe Cell Health Frontier: Senescence, Mitochondria, and the Search for Better Healthspan
Some problems of ageing may start inside individual cells. This explainer tours senescence and mitochondria, from striking mouse results to small, mixed human trials, and explains why no therapy is yet approved to treat ageing.
BreakthroughsInside a Clinical Trial: What Phase 1, 2, and 3 Results Really Mean
A positive Phase 1 result and a positive Phase 3 result sound similar but mean very different things. Here is what each stage of a clinical trial is designed to show, and what it cannot.
DeepTech + MedTechBioprinting Human Tissue: What Works in the Lab, and What Would It Take to Reach Patients?
No bioprinted solid organ has been transplanted into a person, but bioprinting has produced striking lab and animal results. Here is what works today, what has reached early human testing, and what still stands in the way.
DeepTech + MedTechOrganoids and Lab-Grown Models: Could They Improve How We Test Treatments?
Organoids and organ-on-a-chip systems let researchers test drugs on human tissue models before people. The early evidence is promising but specific, and the models still miss much of real human biology.