Columbia Engineering researchers report that they have developed a "cloaking" system that temporarily hides therapeutic bacteria from immune systems, enabling them to more effectively deliver drugs to tumors and kill cancer ...
Mar 17, 2022
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The stretches of DNA that differ from person to person, called variants, are a major part of what makes us unique, but they can also put us at greater risk of disease. Although we can currently spell out between 80% and 90% ...
Feb 7, 2022
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There are millions of mutations and other genetic variations in cancer. Understanding which of these mutations is an impactful tumor "driver" compared to an innocuous "passenger," and what each of the drivers does to the ...
Jan 21, 2022
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Every day, the billions of bacteria that inhabit your digestive system change; the food you eat, medications you take, and germs you're exposed to make some bacteria flourish more than others. Scientists know that this ever-shifting ...
Dec 23, 2021
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Why do 80 to 90% of people infected with COVID-19 experience only mild cases while 10 to 20% face more severe or life-threatening symptoms?
Dec 18, 2021
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An international team of researchers has developed a new approach to pinpoint which proteins in our cells are most critical for increasing sugar absorption after exercise—an important benefit of exercise that can help maintain ...
Dec 10, 2021
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Researchers at Karolinska Institutet, University of Oslo and Oslo University Hospital have developed a new kind of immunotherapy for leukemia. The results of a study published in Nature Biotechnology show that the therapy ...
Dec 6, 2021
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A Ludwig Cancer Research study has devised a highly efficient method to generate large numbers of immune cells specifically engineered to recognize neoantigens—small fragments of randomly mutated proteins that are typically ...
Nov 15, 2021
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Grégoire Courtine doesn't hesitate to use the word "revolutionary" when describing the emerging field of optogenetics—a technology that uses pulses of light to control individual neural activity—and what it could mean ...
Sep 27, 2021
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An international research collaboration has identified a new gold standard for detecting cancer mutations using genomic pathology.
Sep 10, 2021
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