A new strategy to attack aggressive brain cancer shrank tumors in two early tests
A new strategy to fight an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor showed promise in a pair of experiments with a handful of patients.
Mar 14, 2024
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A new strategy to fight an extremely aggressive type of brain tumor showed promise in a pair of experiments with a handful of patients.
Mar 14, 2024
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Targeting two brain tumor-associated proteins—rather than one—with CAR T cell therapy shows promise as a strategy for reducing solid tumor growth in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), an aggressive form of brain ...
Mar 13, 2024
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A pioneering Phase I CAR T cell therapy trial for the treatment of glioblastoma at City of Hope demonstrates promising clinical activity against incurable brain tumors, according to research published in Nature Medicine.
Mar 7, 2024
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A few years ago, researchers made the unnerving discovery that in the brains of people with Alzheimer's disease, disordered clumps of abnormal proteins had been growing for 15 or even 20 years before their diagnosis. That ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Common inherited genetic factors that predict cancer risk in the general population may also predict elevated risk of new cancers among childhood cancer survivors, according to a study led by researchers at the National Cancer ...
Mar 7, 2024
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Scientists have created miniorgans from cells floating in the fluid that surrounds a fetus in the womb—an advance they believe could open up new areas of prenatal medicine.
Mar 4, 2024
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The microbiome can identify those who benefit from combination immunotherapy across multiple different cancers, including rare gynecological cancers, biliary tract cancers and melanoma.
Mar 1, 2024
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Patients providing feedback on their health during research or in clinical practice could now find it less onerous, thanks to a set of recommendations developed by an international group of experts.
Feb 29, 2024
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Climate change is increasing the frequency and intensity of severe weather events, which may particularly endanger vulnerable populations such as the elderly. Researchers examined how weather disasters between 2011 and 2016 ...
Feb 29, 2024
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From the invention of the wheel to the advent of the printing press to the splitting of the atom, history is replete with cautionary tales of new technologies emerging before humanity was ready to cope with them.
Feb 26, 2024
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