A research team co-led by UCLA investigators has shown that an immunotherapy drug combination can be an effective second-line therapy for patients with an aggressive and deadly type of melanoma that is resistant to the widely ...
Aug 17, 2023
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As medical technology advances, many diseases could be detected, prevented and cured with cells, rather than pills.
Aug 13, 2023
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Thanks to machine learning algorithms, short pieces of DNA floating in the bloodstream of cancer patients can help doctors diagnose specific types of cancer and choose the most effective treatment for a patient.
Aug 2, 2023
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Leiomyosarcoma is a type of soft tissue sarcoma that is hard to treat and associated with a poor prognosis. Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research are working to better understand the biology of this cancer to develop ...
Jul 25, 2023
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While pembrolizumab is an approved treatment for patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), only some patients respond to this therapy. Treatment failure, researchers say, is often caused by differences in ...
Jul 13, 2023
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A research team led by Xianghong Jasmine Zhou, Ph.D., professor of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, has made an important advancement to address one of the major challenges ...
Jul 3, 2023
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Aging is closely related to redox stress. The free radical theory of aging believes that free radicals cause aging by oxidative damage to macromolecules. However, the clinical application of antioxidants to anti-aging is ...
Jun 21, 2023
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Among patients with extensive stage small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) that is positive for expression of the Schlafen-11 gene (SLFN11), those who received maintenance atezolizumab immunotherapy plus the PARP inhibitor talazoparib ...
Jun 5, 2023
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Routine diagnostic analyses of mutations in cell-free DNA in patients with metastatic prostate cancer are now possible for the first time in Sweden. The test has been developed by researchers at Karolinska Institutet, and ...
Apr 27, 2023
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Using powerful sequencing technology, researchers have identified specific biomarker patterns in the blood that are unique to severe COVID-19 infection, as well as others unique to Multisystem Inflammatory Syndrome in Children ...
Apr 21, 2023
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