Combining discoveries in cancer immunology with sophisticated genetic engineering, Columbia University researchers have created a sort of "bacterial suicide squad" that targets tumors, attracting the host's own immune cells ...
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For the first time, a research team has identified and analyzed the steps by which immune cells "see" and respond to cancer cells, providing insights into reasons some treatments may be effective for certain patients but ...
Mar 8, 2023
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Researchers at the National Institutes of Health show the benefits of screening adult patients in remission from acute myeloid leukemia (AML) for residual disease before receiving a bone marrow transplant. The findings, published ...
Mar 7, 2023
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A scientific instrument at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory could help create a noninvasive cancer treatment derived from a common tropical plant.
Mar 6, 2023
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Controversies surrounding hormone therapy (HT) and its benefits and risks have dominated the women's health field for more than 2 decades. A large new study demonstrates that, despite some commonly held misperceptions, HT ...
Mar 1, 2023
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Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center have uncovered a previously unrecognized relationship between two sets of proteins that operate in tandem to fend off the growth of pancreatic cancer. The findings could provide pivotal ...
Mar 1, 2023
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Mutations of the gene encoding dystrophins have long been known to cause the debilitating muscle-wasting disease Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), which affects one in every 5,000 children born, mostly boys. People with ...
Feb 27, 2023
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FGFR3-TACC3 represents an oncogenic fusion protein frequently identified in glioblastoma, lung cancer, bladder cancer, oral cancer, head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, gallbladder cancer, and cervical cancer. Various exon ...
Feb 23, 2023
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Cancer biologists are yet to understand the mechanisms and cellular hierarchy leading to the developmental arrest in rhabdomyosarcoma (RMS)—a group of pediatric cancers, which remain enigmatic.
Breakthrough SARS-CoV-2 infections following vaccination against COVID-19 are of international concern and patients with cancer are highly vulnerable and susceptible to poor outcomes.
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