Daily Archives: May 5, 2025

Reading Aloud and Silently Activate Different Parts of the Brain: NBR

Scientists at the Max Planck Institute for Cognitive and Brain Sciences have found that reading aloud and reading silently engage different parts of the brain involved in movement, hearing, and information processing. The results of the study were published in the medical journal Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews (NBR). Scientists analyzed data from more than 150…

New Gene Editing Technique Helps Immune System Fight Common Gastrointestinal Cancer, Study Finds — The Lancet Oncology

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have completed the first human clinical trial of the CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing technique, which may help the immune system combat common forms of gastrointestinal (GI) cancer. Results recently published in The Lancet Oncology show promising signs of the treatment’s safety and potential effectiveness. In the study, scientists used CRISPR/Cas9 gene-editing…