UCLA scientists have developed a new method to engineer more powerful immune cells that can potentially be used for "off-the-shelf" cell therapy to treat challenging cancers.
Nov 8, 2023
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New research at ACR Convergence 2023, the American College of Rheumatology's annual meeting, demonstrates that CAR-T cell therapy could lead to sustained suppression of autoantibodies in treatment-resistant lupus while maintaining ...
Nov 7, 2023
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CAR-T cell therapy is a last hope for many patients with blood, bone marrow or lymph gland cancer when other treatments such as chemotherapy are unsuccessful. A limiting factor of this otherwise very effective and safe therapy ...
Nov 6, 2023
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Drowsy driving causes thousands of car crashes a year and teen drivers say they are often sleepy behind the wheel.
Nov 3, 2023
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The deaths and injuries caused by car drivers are an everyday occurrence. This road violence has become normalized. We take it for granted as the price we have to pay to use our cars.
Nov 2, 2023
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have developed a way to potentially increase the effectiveness of T cell–based immunotherapy treatments, such as CAR T-cell therapy, against solid tumors. T cells are specialized ...
Nov 1, 2023
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One of the most common byproducts of the burning of fossil fuels, phenanthrene, causes heart arrhythmias in mice, proving for the first time it is toxic to mammals.
Oct 31, 2023
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For several years, researchers have been successfully using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells to target specific antigens found on blood cells as a cure for patients with leukemia and lymphoma. But solid tumors, like ...
Oct 12, 2023
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America's kids are safer now than a decade ago when it comes to many types of injury, with two glaring exceptions: drugs and guns.
Oct 7, 2023
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML), the second most common leukemia in children, is hard to treat and has a five-year survival rate of just 65 to 70%, according to the American Cancer Society. While immunotherapies like monoclonal ...
Sep 30, 2023
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