Yep, therapy hangovers are a thing – here’s how to deal with yours

Do you tend to feel exhausted and drained after a therapy session? Read this. It’s only when my therapy sessions come to an end that I realise how exhausting they are. Despite having been in therapy on and off for five years now, I’m still surprised by how floored I feel after most of my […]

Pfizer asks FDA to approve omicron-specific booster shot

Pfizer Inc. said Monday that it has asked the U.S. Food and Drug Administration to approve the emergency use of an updated booster shot that targets several versions of the omicron variant. Animal studies show that the new mRNA vaccine produces an immune response against both the BA.4 and BA.5 subvariants, with clinical trials set […]

Optimization of human small intestinal organoids

Researchers from the Organoid group (formerly the Clevers group) have improved human small intestinal organoids—miniature versions of the small intestine. This will help them to better study the functioning of the small intestine during health and disease. Specifically, the researchers managed to develop organoids that contain mature Paneth cells, which were not present in the […]

Add high jumps into your warm up to get energised

Welcome to our weekly Move of the Week series. Every Monday, we’ll be sharing with you one of our favourite exercises – how to do them, what muscles they work and why they should be a regular part of your workout regime. This week: high jumps. Do you ever start your workout feeling flat? Sometimes, it’s […]

Researchers study schizophrenia by emulating it in a petri dish

It was one of those coveted moments of serendipity in a scientific career. Angeles Rabadan, Ph.D., left Raju Tomer’s lab at Columbia University for the day, but not before storing in an incubator a tiny tube with the few remaining drops of a cell-rich solution. When she returned the next morning, she saw something that […]

Best Approach for Low-risk HPV+ Oropharynx Cancers?

The question of whether primary transoral surgery or radiation is a better treatment deescalation option for patients with low-risk human papillomavirus (HPV)-related oropharyngeal squamous cell carcinomas (OPSCCs) is still unanswered, despite the best efforts of investigators in the randomized phase 2 ORATOR2 trial. Transoral surgery was associated with an unacceptable risk of grade 5 toxic […]