Oncology & Cancer
What do you know about leukemia and lymphoma?
September is Leukemia and Lymphoma Awareness Month, which makes this a good time to learn about some of the most common types of these two diseases.
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Oncology & Cancer
Minor cell population plays major role in triggering a silent subset of inherited MDS cases
In the United States, as many as 187,000 people are coping with myelodysplastic syndromes (MDS) that damage the bone marrow's ability to produce healthy blood cells.
Sep 1, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
New therapies possible after finding immune cell changes in lymphoplasmacytic lymphoma
A new study by researchers at Winship Cancer Institute of Emory University finds that cancer-associated mutations originate in blood progenitor cells, leading to distinct changes in both cancer and non-cancer immune cells ...
Sep 1, 2021
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Rheumatoid arthritis treated with implanted cells that release drug
With a goal of developing rheumatoid arthritis therapies with minimal side effects, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have genetically engineered cells that, when implanted in mice, will ...
Sep 1, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Study suggests adding drug berzosertib to standard treatment for metastatic bladder cancer does not benefit patients
A Phase 2 trial led by City of Hope, a world-renowned research and treatment center for cancer and diabetes, suggests that adding the novel ataxia telangiectasia and Rad3-related (ATR) inhibitor drug berzosertib to standard-of-care ...
Aug 26, 2021
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Other
Pfizer to pay $2.26B for cancer treatment developer Trillium
Pfizer is spending more than $2 billion in cash to buy a drugmaker focused on cancer treatments.
Aug 23, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Genomic markers of aggressive childhood leukemias identified
New research published today in JAMA Oncology reports how two separate DNA changes appear to predict aggressive childhood leukemias when they occur in combination. Over the course of a decade of work in several study sites ...
Aug 20, 2021
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Medical research
Aged skeletal stem cells interfere with healing and promote 'inflamm-aging'
Researchers at the Stanford Institute for Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine have discovered how changes in aging skeletal stem cells may be an underlying cause of poor fracture healing, osteoporosis and various ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Medical research
New blood: Lab-grown stem cells bode well for transplants, aging research
Hematopoietic stem cells—the precursors to blood cells—have been notoriously difficult to grow in a dish, a critical tool in basic research. Scientists at University of California San Diego School of Medicine have identified ...
Aug 12, 2021
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Biomedical technology
Implant shows extreme promise for regenerating bone
Its powers may not rival Wolverine's, but a regenerative implant engineered by researchers at the University of Nebraska Medical Center and University of Nebraska–Lincoln could help repair bone-deep damage following physical ...
Aug 3, 2021
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