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Isabella Backman

Reporter · US

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Oct 1, 2026
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  1. Article · Oct 1, 2026 · Isabella Backman

    A new AI tool detects a widely underdiagnosed, aggressive heart condition. It was built in CT. (opens the original)

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    A new Yale-developed artificial intelligence platform can detect individuals at risk for amyloid cardiomyopathy, an underdiagnosed cardiac condition, using data from a quick and accessible heart test. Amyloid cardiomyopathy is a disease caused by the buildup of misfolded proteins on the heart muscle. Left untreated, it can be deadly. But many patients only receive a diagnosis in its later stages after the onset of dangerous complications such as heart failure. Now, Yale scientists have built an

  2. Article · Sep 28, 2026 · Isabella Backman

    Endometriosis can cause debilitating pain. Study by CT researchers helps explain how. (opens the original)

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    One of the puzzling aspects of endometriosis—a gynecologic condition in which tissue similar to that lining the uterus grows outside of it—is that the extent of the disease doesn’t determine the severity of its symptoms. New Yale research may help explain why some patients with a small number of growths experience debilitating pain, while others with more widespread disease do not have symptoms. To learn more about how endometriosis causes pain at the molecular level, Yale School of Medicine res

  3. Article · Aug 24, 2026 · Isabella Backman

    CT researchers find T Cell therapy shows promise in treating certain aggressive cancer (opens the original)

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    A new Phase I clinical trial has found that an emerging immunotherapy is promising for the treatment of recurrent glioblastoma, a highly aggressive and fatal brain cancer. Chimeric antigen receptor T (CAR-T) cell therapy is a form of immunotherapy that modifies an individual’s own T cells (a type of immune cell) so that they are better able to recognize and destroy cancer cells. The new clinical trial, the results of which were published this month in Nature Medicine, focuses on a form of CAR-T

  4. Article · Aug 14, 2026 · Isabella Backman

    CT researchers studied hearts. They found roles certain neurons play are crucial for our survival (opens the original)

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    Our hearts are embedded with their own neural network, which some neuroscientists have dubbed the “little brain on the heart.” A new study identifies the roles these cardiac neurons play in heart function and shows that they are crucial for our survival. Scientists have known that the heart contains its own nervous system, called the intrinsic cardiac nervous system, for decades. And it was thought that neurons in the heart acted as part of the parasympathetic (“rest and digest”) nervous system,

  5. Article · Jul 25, 2026 · Isabella Backman

    CT researchers learn how autistic brains process faces differently. It could help point to new diagnostics (opens the original)

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    Researchers have conducted one of the most comprehensive studies, published recently in Nature Mental Health, on how the autistic brain processes faces. Some of the hallmark characteristics of autism are the tendencies to avoid looking at other’s faces and making less eye contact. Many autistic individuals have a harder time remembering faces and recognizing facial emotions than their neurotypical counterparts. Researchers have been studying face processing in the brains of autistic people for d

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