UC Davis researchers have developed a brain-computer interface that can instantaneously translate brain activity into voice as a person tries to speak — effectively creating a digital vocal tract.

University of Utah medical ethicists are now shining a light on a buried part of the infamous Stateville Penitentiary malaria research in hopes of revealing how the prison experiments advanced medical science that benefits patients today, and which would not have happened were it not for the participation of Black inmates. This research conducted from 1950 until 1974, when medical research on prison inmates was suspended across the country, discovered the genetic basis for adverse drug reactions and led to the science of pharmacogenetics. 

Human papillomavirus (HPV) can drive tumor development in some rare sinonasal squamous cell carcinomas (SNSCCs), according to a new comprehensive study of these tumors from investigators at the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine and the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center. The researchers also identified common mutations among these cancers and a potential combination treatment during the study, which was partially supported by the National Institutes of Health.

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University and Cleveland Clinic are developing vaccines targeting pancreatic cancer that could eliminate the disease, leaving a patient cancer-free. So far, the vaccines have achieved dramatic results in studies with preclinical models.