Patient response to treatment—especially personalised medicine—can be very difficult to predict. To overcome this issue, the CHEMOS project has been advancing a new method for screening thousands of single-cell drug responses ...
Aug 11, 2017
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How do initially benign forms of cancer evolve to become aggressive? In a quest to answer this long-standing question, an EU project has studied the growth and clonal evolution of chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL)—a blood ...
Aug 11, 2017
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Partly supported through the EU NEUROMICS project, researchers have identified a novel measure of disease progression for Huntington's disease that could help slow down the disease and better target future therapies.
Aug 10, 2017
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Although a source of much hope among 'multiple myeloma' (MM) patients, adoptive T cell therapies are still held back by expensive, lengthy, individual-tailored approaches. However, an EU-funded project is aiming to shake ...
Aug 9, 2017
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Almost half of patients with mature B cell neoplasia are faced with the ineffectiveness of existing treatments. However, they may soon benefit from new therapeutic tools relying on miRNA—a small non-coding RNA molecule ...
Aug 9, 2017
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Researchers and scientists have provided a clearer picture into the true dangers of progressive brain diseases in repeated head sport injuries that must now be tackled head-on.
Mar 10, 2017
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Broken bones do not always repair fully, especially after major trauma such as a car accident. Complications can occur when the bone is broken in several places, the blood flow is reduced or infection sets in. Patients can ...
Mar 9, 2017
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Building on EU-funded research, scientists have identified genetic traits that heighten the risk of developing chronic obstructive pulmonary disease.
Mar 6, 2017
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Who needs Beyonce or Shakira to be a disco diva when you have avatars showing you all the hip moves?
Feb 20, 2017
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Results from a large study of volunteer blood donors in Martinique during the 2016 Zika virus outbreak - which according to state health authorities affected 568 pregnant women - are now in. They provide a precise follow-up ...
Feb 15, 2017
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