Medical research

A good night's sleep keeps your stem cells young

In a study just published in the journal Nature, scientists at the Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum Heidelberg and at the Institute for Stem Cell Technology and Experimental Medicine have uncovered that environmental stress ...

Oncology & Cancer

Natural kill cell technology to stop cancer gets licensed

Our bodies contain Natural Killer (NK) cells - an army that stops cancers and viruses before they can make us sick. A researcher from the University of Central Florida's College of Medicine has created a nanoparticle that ...

Oncology & Cancer

Genetic study of familial leukemia solves 30-year medical mystery

A decades-old medical mystery has been solved by researchers at UC San Francisco and St. Jude Children's Research Hospital in Tennessee, who have discovered a pair of inherited genetic mutations underlying a familial blood ...

Medical research

New bone healing mechanism has potential therapeutic applications

Led by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, a study published in the journal Cell Stem Cell reveals a new mechanism that contributes to adult bone maintenance and repair and opens the possibility of developing therapeutic ...

Oncology & Cancer

FDA approves new targeted drug for leukemia

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved the first ever inhibitor drug specifically approved for treating patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with a mutation in the Fms-like tyrosine ...

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