Archive: 05/11/2015

iEAT application helps treat children with feeding disorders

For most of his life, four-year-old Carsten had required a feeding tube for his nourishment. Born with a chromosome abnormality known as translocation, he also had negative experiences with food as an infant. While he seemed ...

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New technique paves the way for finding a HIV vaccine

Researchers are one step closer to finding an effective vaccine against HIV thanks to a new approach to systematically understanding the immune response to the virus.

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Drugs with directed molecules increase life expectancy by five years in breast cancer patients

Clinical studies show that new drugs that target malignant cells of HER2-positive breast cancer, such as Pertuzumab and Trastuzumab Emtansine (T-DM1), increase life expectancy in patients with advanced breast cancer.

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New gene linked to lung cancer spread and tumor formation

Worldwide, lung cancer causes more deaths than any other cancer. Most frequently, mortality is the result of metastasis—when lung cancer spreads to other parts of the body, such as the brain, bones or liver.

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New imaging technology helping detect oral cancer more accurately

A noninvasive device that enables doctors to quickly and accurately identify cancerous tissue in a person's mouth could result in more effective diagnosis and treatment of the disease, says a biomedical engineer at Texas ...

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'Dickensian' lung disease rates on the rise in UK pensioners

The number of people diagnosed with bronchiectasis, a lung condition thought to be a 'disease of the past', has risen considerably in the past decade and now affects more than 1% of UK pensioners, finds a new study by UCL, ...

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Being mom's favorite may not be good for your psychological health

Being mom's favorite child is not a guarantee that it is best for one's psychological health, according to new research from Purdue University.

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Neurons reprogrammed in animals

Building on earlier work in which they disproved neurobiology dogma by "reprogramming" neurons—turning one form of neuron into another—in the brains of living animals, Harvard Stem Cell Institute researchers have now ...

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Veterinarians and physicians are poised to deliver a knockout blow to the cancers that their patients share

When Renee Holden saw the large lump under her cat's tongue, her instincts told her it wasn't good. She just knew that her 13-year-old calico Ginger had cancer. The prognosis wasn't any better. Ginger was diagnosed with squamous ...

Nov 5, 2015

Tumour network in the brain increases treatment resistance

Astrocytomas are special type of brain tumours that are difficult to treat, because they do not respond to standard therapies. One reason for this resistance could be their ability to form a communication network. This was ...

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