Medical research
Perforated bone tissue from too little sugar
Could something as simple as a certain type of sugar water be medicine for perforated bones, and even bone marrow cancer itself?
Oct 9, 2020
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News tagged with bone marrow cells
Oncology & Cancer
Two leukemia babies in remission after injection of new kind of edited T-cells
(Medical Xpress)—Two babies given an experimental kind of edited T-cells to treat their leukemia remain in remission after more than a year, doctors working on the case report in a paper published in the journal Science ...
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Cord blood outperforms matched, unrelated donor in bone marrow transplant
A University of Colorado Cancer Center study compared outcomes of leukemia patients receiving bone marrow transplants from 2009-2014, finding that three years post transplant, the incidence of severe chronic graft-versus-host ...
Jul 26, 2016
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Medical research
Cells that stand in the way of HIV cure: Discovery expands understanding of marrow's role
Every day, 17 million HIV-infected people around the world swallow pills that keep the virus inside them at bay.
Jul 31, 2017
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Medical research
Surprising new role for lungs—making blood
Using video microscopy in the living mouse lung, UC San Francisco scientists have revealed that the lungs play a previously unrecognized role in blood production. As reported online March 22, 2017 in Nature, the researchers ...
Mar 22, 2017
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Surgery
Skin and bones repaired by bioprinting during surgery
Fixing traumatic injuries to the skin and bones of the face and skull is difficult because of the many layers of different types of tissues involved, but now, researchers have repaired such defects in a rat model using bioprinting ...
Apr 27, 2021
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Cardiology
Study cautions against statins as general preventive medicine
Statins' success in reducing atherosclerosis-related events has elevated the medications to wonder-drug status, with some researchers advocating for their wider use as a preemptive therapy for cardiovascular disease. Using ...
Aug 14, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Priming the immune system to attack cancer
Immunotherapies, such as checkpoint inhibitor drugs, have made worlds of difference for the treatment of cancer. Most clinicians and scientists understand these drugs to act on what's known as the adaptive immune system, ...
Oct 29, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists block breast cancer cells from hiding in bones
Scientists at the Duke Cancer Institute have identified a molecular key that breast cancer cells use to invade bone marrow in mice, where they may be protected from chemotherapy or hormonal therapies that could otherwise ...
May 25, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
New findings on therapy-related myeloid cancers
Scientists at Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine have illuminated how treatments for multiple myeloma and other aggressive blood cancers can lead to future malignancies, ...
Jan 26, 2023
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