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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Amino Acids, Peptides, and Proteins: News and Research on Receptors, Growth Factor
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Advancing the generation of in-vivo chimeric lungs in mice using rat-derived stem cells
Chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) is the third-leading cause of death worldwide. It is marked by lung damage that is lasting and incurable, leaving lung transplantation as the only viable treatment option. Unfortunately, ...
Jan 5, 2024
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Organoids study discovers promising treatment for deadly uterine cancer
QUT scientists have discovered a promising new therapy for a deadly type of endometrial cancer that has a poor prognosis if the cancer spreads or returns after initial treatment, a plight that affects 15%–20% of endometrial ...
Dec 13, 2023
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Research links single gene to female infertility
Loss of a single gene could be enough to cause female infertility, with research identifying that women won't make eggs without the protein it produces.
Oct 25, 2023
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Trial finds adding immune modulator to targeted therapy does not improve survival in difficult-to-treat thyroid cancer
Results of a multicenter phase II clinical trial led by the University of Chicago Medicine Comprehensive Cancer Center show that adding an immunomodulatory agent to treatment with the targeted tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) ...
Sep 1, 2023
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Patients with refractory metastatic colorectal cancer experience survival benefits with fruquintinib
Researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reported study results showing that the targeted therapy fruquintinib significantly improved overall survival (OS) and progression-free survival (PFS) in ...
Jun 16, 2023
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Research reveals why cancers stop responding to kinase-blocking drugs and come back stronger
More than 70 FDA-approved cancer drugs are kinase inhibitors, which work by blocking kinases—enzymes that add phosphate groups to molecules in the cell—and preventing the chemical activity necessary for signaling and growth ...
Feb 13, 2023
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How hepatitis E viruses enter cells
Although hepatitis E is a common disease, little is known about the life cycle of the virus. Initial findings on how it manages to infect cells are reported by a team from Molecular and Medical Virology at Ruhr University ...
Feb 9, 2023
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Genetic deficiency and pharmacological modulation of RORα regulate laser-induced choroidal neovascularization
A new research paper titled "Genetic deficiency and pharmacological modulation of RORα regulate laser-induced choroidal neovascularization" has been published in Aging.
Jan 18, 2023
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Response to neoadjuvant chemo for breast cancer varies by sex
Both proportions and odds of pathologic complete response (pCR) to neoadjuvant chemotherapy (NAC) are numerically lower in men with breast cancer (BC) versus women with BC for each tumor subtype, according to a study published ...
Oct 6, 2022
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