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Andrea Lius, PhD

Articles by Andrea Lius, PhD

A grey mouse eats breadcrumbs in a dark basement.

Bread-Based Bacterial Vaccine Boosted Colon Cancer Therapy in Mice

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Can Tattoos Cause Cancer? Researchers Investigate a Potential Link

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A High-Fat Diet May Drive Gut Bacteria to the Brain in Mice

Wooden blocks with symbols of the male (blue, right) and female (pink, left) sex lay on a table. A person’s hand holds another block, which has an equal sign on one side and an inequal sign on another, in the middle.

Women Take Longer to Resolve Pain Than Men. Researchers May Finally Know Why.

An orange cat with a blue cancer ribbon on its forehead sits on a gray rug.

Pet Cat Tumors Share Genetic Similarities with Human Cancers

Immune cells fight against various invaders.

A Designer “Bridge” Molecule to Enhance Existing Cancer Immunotherapies

A robot sits in a library, symbolizing OpenScholar, a large language model trained exclusively on scientific publications to help researchers keep up with the growing body of literature.

OpenScholar, an AI Tool for Scientific Literature Search, Outperforms ChatGPT and Other LLMs

A cartoon red file with a sad face and cross eyes with the annotation “No Data” is in a yellow folder. A cartoon person sits in front of the folder with a computer on their lap, signifying the public, physicians, and policymakers seeking public health surveillance data from the CDC, many of which are missing, altered, or outdated.

Nearly Half of Once Frequently Updated CDC Databases Are Now Outdated

A patient with cancer sits in the living room, shirtless and facing away from the camera. They seem very thin, likely struggling with cachexia or wasting syndrome.

Organs Synchronize Their Metabolic Response in Cancer Wasting Syndrome

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Genetic Basis of Aneuploidy, Which Often Causes Pregnancy Loss, Revealed

A female patient with cancer, wearing a multicolored knit sweater and a pink headwrap, poses in front of a waterfall. She is flexing her right arm, symbolizing strength and victory in the fight against cancer.

Cancer Mortality in the United States Is Decreasing Steadily

Cartoon illustration of dead, rod-shaped bacteria, signifying Mycobacterium tuberculosis successfully defeated by antibiotics.

New “Kill Test” Could Help Screen Better Antibiotics

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Multiplex Microscopy Becomes Easier with Encoded Antibodies

A new system that enables researchers to uniquely tag monoclonal antibodies for use in microscopy could help simplify complex imaging studies.

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