Twenty-seven out of 29 patients with an advanced blood cancer who received an experimental, "living" immunotherapy as part of a clinical trial experienced sustained remissions, according to preliminary results of the ongoing ...
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Dr. Stanley Riddell, an immunotherapy researcher and oncologist at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, on Feb. 14 will present an update on new adoptive T-cell strategies for cancer at the annual meeting of ...
Feb 14, 2016
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Scientists at the University of Dundee have discovered that "molecular scissors" that repair damaged and abnormal DNA are critical for keeping cancers at bay.
Feb 2, 2016
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In 2010, a large study in Denmark found that women who suffered an infection severe enough to require hospitalization while pregnant were much more likely to have a child with autism (even though the overall risk of delivering ...
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US President Barack Obama's announcement of a "moonshot" bid to cure cancer, continues a centuries-long quest to defeat a disease which kills over eight million people every year.
Jan 13, 2016
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(MedicalXpress)—A new technique developed by a team of researchers affiliated with a number of facilities in China allows medical practitioners involved in IVF treatment to more easily weed out embryos with genetic defects ...
Further underscoring the prenatal origins of Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD), researchers at University of California, San Diego School of Medicine describe for the first time how abnormal gene activity in cell cycle networks ...
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Cells communicate with other cells in our bodies by sending and receiving signals. Cancer can occur when these signals are "dysregulated" and abnormal cells grow out of control.
Nov 23, 2015
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Endometriosis - tissue usually found inside the uterus that grows outside - thrives because of altered cellular signaling that is mediated by estrogen, said researchers from Baylor College of Medicine in a report that appears ...
Nov 5, 2015
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Type VII collagen is an important protein that helps hold the skin together. Patients with a severe skin condition known as recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa (RDEB) have genetic mutations that lead to reductions ...
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