Medical research
Growing human brain cells in the lab
Li Gan, PhD, wants to find treatments to help patients with Alzheimer's disease. Like most researchers, she's hit a few major roadblocks.
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Oncology & Cancer
New breast cancer stem cell findings explain how cancer spreads
Breast cancer stem cells exist in two different states and each state plays a role in how cancer spreads, according to an international collaboration of researchers. Their finding sheds new light on the process that makes ...
Jan 14, 2014
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HIV & AIDS
10 years on, stem cell transplant may have cured a patient of HIV
A man who underwent a stem cell transplant to treat his cancer is showing "strong evidence" that the procedure also cured him of HIV—the latest in a handful of cases doctors have reported.
Feb 20, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Learning to stop cancer at its roots
Why do some cancers come back? Sometimes, a treatment can effectively eliminate cancer cells to undetectable levels, but, if the treatment stops, cancer may return. This is the case of chronic myeloid leukemia treated with ...
Nov 7, 2019
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Oncology & Cancer
Development of a new gastric cancer model: Identification of gastric cancer stem cells
Researchers have succeeded in establishing a mouse model that develops gastric cancer closely resembling advanced human gastric cancer. Using this model, they have discovered gastric cancer stem cells, i.e. Lgr5+ gastric ...
Dec 22, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers publish new findings on influence of high-fat diet on colorectal cancer
Poor diet is associated with 80% of colorectal cancer cases, but the exact pathways by which diet leads to cancer are not known.
Jul 6, 2017
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Oncology & Cancer
Simple compound could provide first new therapy for myeloid leukemia in four decades
Researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) and the Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) have identified a drug compound that arrests in mice the progression of acute myeloid leukemia (AML), a bone marrow cancer that ...
Sep 16, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
New approach found to tackle breast cancer hormone therapy resistance
University of Manchester researchers funded by Breast Cancer Now have discovered a new explanation as to why women with oestrogen receptor positive (ER+) breast cancer develop resistance to hormone treatment, and a potential ...
Sep 17, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Discovery could lead to better cancer immunotherapy
A type of white blood cell previously known only as a helper in the immune system appears also to be the instigator of the body's defenses against cancerous tumors. The discovery could lead to more effective cancer immunotherapy, ...
May 31, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
For children, young adults with recurrent AML, immunotherapy shows promise
An immunotherapy harnessing the immune system's "natural killer" cells has proven effective in treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML) in some adults whose cancers return. Now, researchers at Washington University School of ...
Dec 14, 2021
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