Almost all injuries, even minor skin scratches, trigger an inflammatory response, which provides protection against invading microbes but also turns on regenerative signals needed for healing and injury repair - a process ...
Feb 25, 2015
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New research suggests that patients recovering from bowel cancer surgery may be at a higher risk of relapse if their blood shows an immune response to a particular protein, called carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA).
Feb 18, 2015
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Investigators with the National Institutes of Health have discovered the genomic switches of a blood cell key to regulating the human immune system. The findings, published in Nature today, open the door to new research and ...
Feb 16, 2015
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Research scientists have developed a novel method to re-create brain and intestinal stem cells from patients who died decades ago, using DNA from stored blood samples to study the potential causes of debilitating illnesses ...
Dec 2, 2014
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A new study that challenges the prevailing view of how bowel cancer develops in the large intestine is published today in Nature Medicine.
Dec 1, 2014
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To prevent infection, the intestinal wall relies on the support of its own 'home-grown' army of commensal bacteria. These gut microbiota collaborate with and are in turn regulated by their host's immune system via a variety ...
Nov 7, 2014
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Melbourne researchers have challenged conventional thinking on how the bowel lining develops and, in the process, suggested a new mechanism for how bowel cancer starts.
Oct 16, 2014
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An oral biologic medication has successfully treated chronic, precancerous inflammation in the intestine, according to results of an animal study authored by an MD/PhD student in the University at Buffalo School of Medicine ...
Oct 14, 2014
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(HealthDay)—When given to pregnant women, a common treatment for ulcerative colitis may inadvertently lower their baby's ability to fight off infections at birth, new French research suggests.
Oct 3, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—An international team of scientists has shown that more than 80 per cent of bowel cancers could be treated with existing drugs.
Oct 1, 2014
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