Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. UVA researchers found a compound that blocks AVIL, slowing glioblastoma in mice and reaching brain tissue. (CREDIT: Wikimedia / CC ...

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Scientists from the Lee Kong Chian School of Medicine at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore, have uncovered how ...

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Scientists meeting at Center for BrainHealth during its annual BrainHealth Week conference announced the launch of the Society for Brain Health. Poised to address a critical gap in the global health ...

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Scientists at the University of Virginia School of Medicine are chasing a new way to slow glioblastoma, the deadliest brain cancer. Their work centers on a gene called AVIL and a new drug-like ...