Oncology & Cancer
Testing a new immunotherapy treatment for neuroblastoma
Immunotherapies are changing the outlook for many cancer patients.
May 3, 2017
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Commuters are inhaling unacceptably high levels of carcinogens
A new study finds that California's commuters are likely inhaling chemicals at levels that increase the risk for cancer and birth defects.
Feb 15, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists transform cancer cells into weapons against cancer
Some cities fight gangs with ex-members who educate kids and starve gangs of new recruits. Stanford Medicine researchers have done something similar with cancer—altering cancer cells so that they teach the body's immune ...
Mar 6, 2023
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Neuroscience
Traumatic brain injury impairs hormone production, disrupting sleep, cognition, memory
More than 2.5 million people in the United States alone experience a traumatic brain injury, or TBI, each year. Some of these people are plagued by a seemingly unrelated cascade of health issues for years after their head ...
Jan 21, 2020
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Medical research
Scientists 'supercharge' cancer-fighting T cells
Yale scientists have identified a way to "supercharge" tumor-attacking T cells, a finding that may not only improve the effectiveness of a promising type of cell-based cancer immunotherapy but also expand the number of cancers ...
Mar 10, 2022
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Medical research
A tale of two doctors and one groundbreaking cancer treatment
Two University of Rochester physicians—one as an investigator and one as a patient—had major roles in a cutting-edge clinical trial using the body's own immune cells to fight late-stage cancer. The striking results, showing ...
Apr 3, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Scientists use two powerful immunotherapies to eradicate solid tumors
City of Hope scientists have combined two potent immunotherapies—an oncolytic virus and chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy—to target and eradicate solid tumors that are otherwise difficult to treat with CAR ...
Sep 2, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Treatment shows promise in treating deadly brain cancer
Researchers of McMaster University and the University of Toronto have developed a promising immunotherapy treatment for a deadly form of adult brain cancer called glioblastoma.
May 27, 2020
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HIV & AIDS
Novel Dual CAR T cell immunotherapy holds promise for targeting the HIV reservoir
A recent study published in the journal Nature Medicine, led by researchers Todd Allen, Ph.D., a professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School (HMS) and group leader at the Ragon Institute of MGH, MIT and Harvard, and Jim ...
Aug 31, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Gasdermin E: A new approach to cancer immunotherapy that could have broad reach
Tumors have figured out various ways to prevent the immune system from attacking them. Medicine, for its part, has fought back with cancer immunotherapies. The major approach uses checkpoint inhibitors, drugs that help the ...
Mar 11, 2020
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