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cancer neuroscience
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Two Nervous Systems, One Room: Practicing a New Kind of Intelligence in Oncology
Over the past year, I have found myself returning to one question with increasing insistence: when a patient walks through the door of an oncology clinic, who, exactly, has walked in? The obvious answer is a person with cancer. We…
How a Brain-Destroying Protein Became Cancer’s Ally: Alpha-Synuclein Emerges as a New Target in Melanoma
The alpha-synuclein, a protein long associated with Parkinson’s disease may hold the key to melanoma proliferation. The study, published in Science Advances, on 9 April, suggests that while excess alpha-synuclein results in cell death in neurons, conversely, it enables uncontrolled…