Oncology & Cancer

A new mechanism of drug resistance discovered for breast cancer

Scientists from Università Cattolica in Rome, together with colleagues from the IIGM Foundation (part of Candiolo Institute at Turin), have discovered a new drug-resistance mechanism in breast cancer that leads to the formation ...

Health informatics

Japanese regulations on regenerative medicine are failing patients

Many nations around the world, including Japan, are making significant investments in regenerative medicine. This is largely due to its potential to cure people of spinal injuries and help with recovery from strokes, among ...

Neuroscience

Stem cell-gene therapy shows promise in ALS safety trial

Cedars-Sinai investigators have developed an investigational therapy using support cells and a protective protein that can be delivered past the blood-brain barrier. This combined stem cell and gene therapy can potentially ...

Medical research

Project aims to achieve cell-based heart repair

Chronic heart failure—also known as cardiac insufficiency in medicine—is the most common reason for hospital admissions and one of the most frequent causes of death in the western world. In Germany alone, 4 million people ...

Oncology & Cancer

Making better, ready-made CAR T cells for cancer immunotherapy

In CAR T-cell immunotherapy, T cells from a patient's own blood are engineered to carry so-called chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) that enhance the T cells' ability to attack and kill tumor cells. While CAR-T therapy is a ...

Medical research

Survey looks at why patients request stem cell treatments

In one of the first studies of its kind, Mayo Clinic researchers have analyzed a large group of patients to understand their motivations for seeking stem cell therapies and whether expectations are grounded in science. The ...

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