Medical research
Key to platelet production advances understanding of RNA
A new insight into RNA regulation has taken researchers a big step forward in understanding how the body creates platelets.
Jul 5, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
'Goldilocks' treatment window could lead to cancer therapy without harmful side effects
Researchers have developed a way to potentially reduce the toxic side-effects of a type of immunotherapy, in findings that could overcome the pioneering treatment's biggest limitation.
Jun 21, 2022
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Neuroscience
Study finds how the brain controls symptoms of sickness
When someone gets an infection, most people think it's the immune system kicking into gear when they feel some of the body's natural defenses like a fever, chills, or fatigue. What most people don't know is that it's actually ...
Jun 8, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Population-scale study highlights ongoing risk of COVID-19 in some cancer patients despite vaccination
A study co-led by the Universities of Oxford, Birmingham and Southampton and the U.K. Health Security Agency (UKHSA), published in Lancet Oncology today by the U.K. Coronavirus Cancer Evaluation Project, has found that while ...
May 23, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Fluorescent probe can track cancer drug progress, study shows
Early diagnosis and treatment of cancer patients could be helped by new imaging technology that sheds light on the effectiveness of immunotherapy drugs.
May 10, 2022
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Medical research
Breakthrough in overcoming drug resistance provides new hope for blood cancer patients
South Australian scientists have made a significant breakthrough in overcoming drug resistance in acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a rare and devastating blood cancer that kills most patients within a few years.
May 9, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Biological pathways found that drive genomic changes and bone metastasis in ewing sarcoma, a rare childhood cancer
In studies using mice grafted with human Ewing sarcoma tissue, researchers from Georgetown University Medical Center and colleagues have identified a biological pathway that is activated when tissue is starved of oxygen due ...
Apr 28, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
New study finds way to improve how radiotherapy is used for people with cancer that has spread to the brain
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), led by Dr. Manuel Valiente, have uncovered how cancer cells that have spread to the brain (metastasis) are able to resist the effects of radiotherapy. The ...
Apr 11, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Study finds 10-second videos can predict blood cancer relapse
In a new study from Vanderbilt University Medical Center, 10-second videos of white blood cell motion in the skin's microvasculature greatly improved the prediction of which stem cell and bone marrow transplant patients would ...
Mar 29, 2022
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Medications
Study: Cancer drugs might be able to target tuberculosis
An unexpected link between tuberculosis and cancer may lead to new drug treatments for the bacterial disease that kills more than 1.5 million people each year, according to a study led by researchers at Stanford Medicine.
Mar 11, 2022
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