In the UK, a spring booster campaign has recently begun, offering an additional vaccine to people at highest risk from COVID. Between April and June 2023 people aged over 75, residents in care homes and children and adults ...
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Despite recent advances, ovarian cancer remains the fifth leading cause of cancer-related deaths among women, and there's a critical need for new treatment options, especially for advanced cancers that grow back after standard ...
Apr 17, 2023
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Scientists from the University of California, Irvine, the University of Michigan and the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have made a significant contribution to the field of pancreatic cancer research. Their ...
Apr 13, 2023
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The current COVID-19 vaccines are designed to trigger an antibody response to the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein, which is vulnerable to mutations that could make the vaccine less effective over time. Focusing on the T-cell instead, ...
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Antibody treatments exist for many diseases, but require injections or IV infusions, which are painful, inconvenient and carry risks. Now, a team of researchers at the University of Connecticut has created a way to deliver ...
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A new nuclear medicine therapy can cure human non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in an animal model, according to research published in the April issue of the Journal of Nuclear Medicine. A single dose of the radioimmunotherapy, [177Lu]Lu-ofatumumab, ...
Apr 11, 2023
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A team led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine, the University of Wisconsin-Madison; Scripps Research and the University of Chicago has identified an antibody that appears to block infection by all dominant variants ...
Apr 7, 2023
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The human body is capable of creating a vast, diverse repertoire of antibodies—the Y-shaped sniffer dogs of the immune system that can find and flag foreign invaders. Despite our ability to create a range of antibodies ...
Apr 6, 2023
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While antibodies normally help fight off infections, "autoantibodies" contribute to autoimmune diseases by recognizing and attacking a person's own body. Patients with autoimmune diseases have long been known to develop, ...
Apr 5, 2023
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Scientific knowledge, as measured by numbers of papers published, has been estimated to double every 17.3 years. However, it takes an average of about 17 years for health and medical research—going from basic lab studies ...
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