Oncology & Cancer
Supercharged natural killer cells may hold promise for cancer
A type of 'supercharged' immune cell could be mass-produced to help fight cancer.
Oct 9, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Penn discovers new, rare mechanism for ALL to relapse after CAR T cell therapy
A single leukemia cell, unknowingly engineered with the leukemia-targeting chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) lentivirus and infused back into a patient, was able to reproduce and cause a deadly recurrence of B-cell acute lymphoblastic ...
Oct 1, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
First in-depth profile of CAR T-cell signals suggests how to improve immunotherapy
CAR T-cell therapy, which reprograms immune cells to fight cancer, has shown great promise in people with some blood cancers who have not responded to other treatments. But until now, the underlying biological pathways enabling ...
Aug 21, 2018
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Immunology
Two molecules offer great potential to combat cancer and chronic infections
To fight viral infections, your immune system calls on CD8 T cells to kill the infected cells. The CD8 T cells can also be used in immunotherapy approaches to kill cancer cells, including the CAR T cell therapy currently ...
Aug 20, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Three scientists share $500,000 prize for work on cancer therapy
Tumors once considered untreatable have disappeared and people previously given months to live are surviving for decades thanks to new therapies emerging from the work of three scientists chosen to receive a $500,000 medical ...
Aug 15, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Chronic lymphocytic leukemia patient goes into remission thanks to single CAR T cell
The doctors who have spent years studying the case call it "a series of fortunate events." What began as a remarkable response to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is now providing evidence about the human genome ...
May 30, 2018
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Health
Hot cars can hit deadly temperatures in as little as one hour
A lot can happen at 160 degrees Fahrenheit: Eggs fry, salmonella bacteria dies, and human skin will suffer third-degree burns. If a car is parked in the sun on a hot summer day, its dashboard can hit 160 degrees in about ...
May 24, 2018
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Psychology & Psychiatry
Study: Women perceive men who extrovertly display their wealth as unsuitable partners for long-term relationships
When a man throws money around on flashy cars, people intuitively interpret this behavior as a sign that he is more interested in short-term sexual relationships than in romantic commitment. This is according to Daniel Kruger ...
May 7, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
T cell biomarker predicts which CLL patients will respond to CAR T cell therapy
Penn Medicine researchers may have found the reason why some patients with advanced chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) don't respond to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, and the answer is tied to how primed ...
Apr 30, 2018
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer killing clue could lead to safer and more powerful immunotherapies
New research could help to safely adapt a new immunotherapy—currently only effective in blood cancers—for the treatment of solid cancers, such as notoriously hard-to-treat brain tumours.
Feb 12, 2018
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