News tagged with leukemia cells
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Targeting cancers' 'addiction' to cell-cycle proteins shuts down tumors in mice
In what they say is a promising and highly selective treatment strategy, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have safely shut down breast cancer and a form of leukemia in mice by targeting abnormal proteins to which ...
Cancer
Oct 16, 2012 |
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Researcher pieces together AML prognosis puzzle
When patients suffering from Acute Myeloid Leukemia (AML) express high levels of the gene, MN1, an already aggressive leukemia is accelerated and shortens survival time. While that's a known fact, the mechanisms involved ...
Cancer
Oct 15, 2012 |
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New tool determines leukemia cells' 'readiness to die,' may guide clinical care
Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a novel method for determining how ready acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells are to die, a discovery that may help cancer specialists to choose treatments option more ...
Cancer
Oct 11, 2012 |
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Deadly complication of stem cell transplants reduced in mice
(Medical Xpress)—Studying leukemia in mice, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have reduced a life-threatening complication of stem cell transplants, the only curative treatment when leukemia ...
Medical research
Sep 27, 2012 |
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Double assault on tough types of leukemias
Investigators at Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine have identified two promising therapies to treat patients with acute megakaryocytic leukemia (AMKL), a rare form of leukemia where the number of cases is ...
Cancer
Sep 20, 2012 |
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RNA interference for human therapy
Leading scientists in the field investigated the potential of RNA interference (RNAi) technology as a therapeutic intervention for down-regulating the expression of disease-associated genes. Project deliverables ...
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Sep 20, 2012 |
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Researchers find novel predictor for MDS progression risk
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center and colleagues have discovered that changes in the physical characteristics of the effector memory regulatory T cell can predict the progression risk of myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) ...
Immunology
Sep 13, 2012 |
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Improved diagnostic test benefits children with acute myeloid leukemia
Early treatment response is a powerful predictor of long-term outcome for young patients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML). The information can help physicians decide whether a more intensive approach is needed. Research ...
Cancer
Sep 10, 2012 |
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New genetic mechanism for controlling blood cell development and blood vessel integrity found
The protein GATA2 is known as a "master regulator" of blood cell development. When a mutation occurs in the gene that makes GATA2, serious blood diseases such as acute myeloid leukemia can result.
Genetics
Sep 10, 2012 |
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FDA approves Pfizer drug for rare blood cancer
Pfizer Inc. says the Food and Drug Administration on Tuesday approved its new drug to treat a rare form of blood and bone marrow cancer.
Medications
Sep 04, 2012 |
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Particular donor genotype lowers leukemia relapse rate
(HealthDay)—Patients with acute myeloid leukemia who receive a stem cell transplant from a donor with activating killer-cell immunoglobulin-like receptor (KIR) genotype KIR2DS1, which has ligand specif ...
Cancer
Aug 30, 2012 |
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Researchers prove that leukemias arise from changes that accumulate in blood stem cells
(Medical Xpress)—Imagine that a police bomb squad comes upon a diabolically designed bomb controlled by a tangled mass of different wires, lights and switches, some of which have a real function while others are decoys. ...
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Aug 30, 2012 |
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Researchers connect new genetic signature to leukemia
(Medical Xpress)—University of Rochester Medical Center scientists believe they are the first to identify genes that underlie the growth of primitive leukemia stem cell, and then to use the new genetic signature to identify ...
Cancer
Aug 27, 2012 |
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Gene discovery could improve treatment for acute myeloid leukemia
Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have made a discovery involving mice and humans that could mean that people with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare and usually fatal cancer, are a ...
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Aug 13, 2012 |
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Existing drugs offer new treatment options for high-risk childhood leukemia subtype
Scientists have identified new genetic alterations underlying a high-risk subtype of the most common childhood cancer that could be effectively targeted with existing leukemia therapies.
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Aug 13, 2012 |
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