Although cancer exists in many different forms and is not a single disease but a complex array of different diseases, there are certain characteristics that define the different forms: self-sufficiency in growth signals, insensitivity to antigrowth signals, evading programmedcell death, limitless replic...
About 60% of people with brain cancer get seizures, which are sudden bursts of abnormal electrical activity in the brain. Tumors may trigger them by changing brain cells or chemicals in a way that makes nerve cells fire too often. During a seizure, some people shake. Others stare off into ...
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The vagus nerve is overstimulated and causes the body's blood vessels to dilate and the heart to slow down. This anti-adrenaline effect decreases the ability of the heart to pump blood upward toward the brain. Without blood flow, the brain turns off. In Victorian England, young ladies' ...
adults, so knowing how to catch symptoms early, get childhood cancer diagnosed, and find support can be essential for families facing this challenge. Even if you are not a parent or caregiver of a child, understanding childhood cancer can help you offer visibility to this cause in your ...
indicates that GPT-4 has attained a form of general intelligence. In other words, it has built up an internal model of how the world works, just as a human brain might, and it uses that model to reason through the questions put to it. One of the researchers told “This American Life...
Yes, you are in some sense a giant walking virus… (Humanity has been compared to a cancer on the earth, so a virus may actually be an improvement) – but that’s not all. In his talk at TED2012, researcher and jungle genome operative Nathan Wolfe makes the point that until 1898, ...
chimeric antibody receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, a treatment for blood cancer. When CAR T cell therapy is given, it causes immune cells to release molecules called cytokines, which help the body to kill the cancer. But cytokines can seep into the area around the brain and cause inflammation...
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