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USC scientists have discovered a way to turn the body's B cells into tiny surveillance machines and antibody factories that can pump out specially designed antibodies to destroy cancer cells or HIV, two of medicine's most ...
Jul 22, 2024
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The effectiveness of CAR T cell therapy against a variety of cancers, including solid tumors, could be boosted greatly by using CRISPR-Cas9 technology to knock out the gene for CD5, a protein found on the surface of T cells, ...
Jul 22, 2024
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Since 2020, the condition known as long COVID-19 has become a widespread disability affecting the health and quality of life of millions of people across the globe and costing economies billions of dollars in reduced productivity ...
Jul 21, 2024
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Tackling brain cancer is complicated, but recent research could help add another tool to the cancer-fighting arsenal. A team from Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech has published a paper in APL Bioengineering that explores a ...
Jul 17, 2024
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Hepatic, or liver, disease affects more than 100 million people in the U.S. About 4.5 million adults (1.8%) have been diagnosed with liver disease, but it is estimated that between 80 and 100 million adults in the U.S. have ...
Jul 17, 2024
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The human epidermal growth factor receptor 2 (HER2) is a critical protein in the growth of cancer cells, and its expression level is a vital indicator of breast cancer aggressiveness. Traditionally, HER2 status is assessed ...
Jul 17, 2024
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Two whole adult human hearts, one healthy and one diseased, have been imaged in unprecedented detail by researchers from UCL and the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF), providing an invaluable resource for better ...
Jul 17, 2024
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Hydrogels have a variety of use cases, including contact lenses, delivering doses of medication within the body, moisturizers, water storage in soil, cleaning polluted water and as gelling and thickening agents. A hydrogel ...
Jul 17, 2024
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Sleep and wake: They're totally distinct states of being that define the boundaries of our daily lives. For years, scientists have measured the difference between these instinctual brain processes by observing brain waves, ...
Jul 16, 2024
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There's a frustrating fact about today's immunotherapies for cancer. While sometimes they work beautifully—completely eliminating or greatly reducing cancer in particular patients—other times they don't work at all. It's ...
Jul 15, 2024
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