Food for thought: Obesity may affect the brain too
Calorie-filled meals with little nutrition are suspected of having an impact on decision-making and of causing an overweight trap.
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Calorie-filled meals with little nutrition are suspected of having an impact on decision-making and of causing an overweight trap.
Feb 15, 2024
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Immunotherapy is already improving treatment options for many cancer types, but research groups keep exploring ways to boost the body's immune response against the tumor.
Feb 14, 2024
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Multiple system atrophy is a rare and fatal neurodegenerative disease, where insoluble inclusions of the protein alpha-synuclein appear in oligodendrocyte cells of the brain. The resulting pathogenesis features neuroinflammation, ...
Feb 12, 2024
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St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have improved chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T–cell immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML), demonstrating better efficacy in the lab.
Feb 12, 2024
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A multi-institutional team of Chinese microbiologists and pharmacologists has developed a novel way to fight cancerous tumors. Called ONCOTECH, it combines oncolytic virotherapy and adoptive T cell therapy for treatment of ...
A new Northwestern Medicine study has found the immune system in the blood of Alzheimer's patients is epigenetically altered. That means the patients' behavior or environment has caused changes that affect the way their genes ...
Feb 10, 2024
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In treating aggressive lymphomas and blood cancer (leukemia), chimeric antigen receptor T cells (CAR T cells) are increasingly being used. For this therapy, immune cells are taken from patients and programmed by means of ...
Feb 9, 2024
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CD4+ T cells have been highlighted in the scientific literature for the important role they play in the immune response to lung infections. However, an article published in the journal Cell Reports shows that an imbalance ...
Feb 8, 2024
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Over the past two decades, immunotherapy—utilizing the body's own immune system to combat illness—has emerged as a groundbreaking treatment for various types of cancer. The body's own T-cells possess a remarkable capacity ...
Feb 7, 2024
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Scientists at the UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Northwestern Medicine may have found a way around the limitations of engineered T cells by borrowing a few tricks from cancer itself.
Feb 7, 2024
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