New animal research is helping explain why at least five people have become HIV-free after receiving a stem cell transplant. The study's insights may bring scientists closer to developing what they hope will become a widespread ...
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Our bodies make blood in a specialized niche—a "nursery" within our bone marrow that nurtures blood stem cells so they can replicate and make different kinds of blood cells. The lab of Leonard Zon, MD, has even shown how ...
May 24, 2023
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Cancer is a sneaky disease. Find one method of treating it successfully, and it finds another way to survive.
May 22, 2023
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Patients with cancer whose immune systems are being supported or rebuilt by bone marrow transplantation should begin receiving vaccines for protection against SARS-CoV-2 three months post-transplant, according to a large, ...
May 16, 2023
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Indiana University School of Medicine researchers studying clonal hematopoiesis of indeterminate potential (CHIP), a blood condition that may increase the risk of blood cancer, discovered that obesity was strongly associated ...
May 16, 2023
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Forty years after the discovery of HIV, AFP looks at how far we have come in fighting a deadly virus that was once shrouded in fear and shame but is now treated as a manageable chronic condition.
May 10, 2023
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The SARS-Cov-2 pandemic illustrates how variable vaccines can be in their length of efficacy, with regular boosters needed to keep people protected. In comparison, the immunity generated by a single vaccination against the ...
May 9, 2023
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Pulmonary macrophages are a heterogeneous population of immune cells that patrol the lungs, ingesting particulates and microbes, and activating inflammation when necessary. During homeostasis, two main subsets of macrophages ...
May 5, 2023
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A new Fred Hutchinson Cancer Center study in the journal Obstetrics & Gynecology investigated how endometriosis, uterine leiomyomas (also known as fibroids) and a common intervention for these conditions—hysterectomy—changed ...
May 4, 2023
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and collaborating institutions have identified a strategy cancerous tumors use to remotely disrupt the development of an immune response that could stop their growth.
May 4, 2023
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