Boosting vaccines for the elderly with 'hyperactivators'
As we age, our immune systems start to flag, leaving us more susceptible to cancer and infections—and less responsive to vaccines and cancer immunotherapies.
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As we age, our immune systems start to flag, leaving us more susceptible to cancer and infections—and less responsive to vaccines and cancer immunotherapies.
Jul 12, 2024
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CAR-T cell therapy, which targets a specific protein on the surface of cancer cells, causes tumors to shrink or disappear in about half of patients with large B-cell lymphoma who haven't experienced improvement with chemotherapy ...
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The primary goal in cancer drug research is not merely to discover compounds that can destroy cancer cells, but to develop methods that specifically target and deliver these agents to cancer cells, sparing healthy ones.
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A new approach to treating the most malignant type of brain cancer—glioblastoma—has shown strong promise in pre-clinical settings, raising hopes of increasing current average survival rates beyond 18 months.
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In chronic hepatitis B, the liver contains immune cells that could destroy hepatitis B virus infected cells but are inactive. A team from the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has discovered that cells in blood vessels ...
Jul 10, 2024
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Researchers from Queen Mary University London and Emory University used a novel AI-based analytic tool to better understand how tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) can predict which cases of Ductal Carcinoma in Situ (DCIS) ...
Jul 10, 2024
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The evolution of resistance to diseases, from infectious illnesses to cancers, poses a formidable challenge.
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Drugs developed to fight blood and other cancers could also help improve the efficiency of radiotherapy in the most commonly diagnosed low-grade brain tumor in adults, a new study has found.
Jul 10, 2024
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There's a frustrating fact about today's immunotherapies for cancer. While sometimes they work beautifully—completely eliminating or greatly reducing cancer in particular patients—other times they don't work at all. It's ...
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Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer deaths worldwide and the third most diagnosed cancer, affecting over a million people annually. The problem worsens if the tumor is metastatic, meaning it moves from ...
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