Immunotherapy increases survival rates in kidney cancer, but does not work for everyone. A Leuven research team has developed a new method to predict which patients will benefit from it. The team of Francesca Finotello (Computational ...
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The Epstein-Barr virus can cause a spectrum of diseases, including a range of cancers. Emerging data now show that inhibition of a specific metabolic pathway in infected cells can diminish latent infection and therefore the ...
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Lupus is a lifelong, often painful and occasionally lethal autoimmune disease. Few treatments exist today beyond powerful steroids to knock down a patient's immune system—a therapy that has its own serious risks.
May 23, 2024
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The number of mutations in the DNA of cancerous tumors may not be an indicator of how well patients will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs), a commonly prescribed type of immunotherapy, a team led by UT Southwestern ...
May 23, 2024
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With so many high-profile people diagnosed with cancer we are confronted with the stark reality the disease can strike any of us at any time. There are also reports certain cancers are increasing among younger people in their ...
May 22, 2024
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New research has discovered an important breakthrough that may overcome cancer treatment resistance. The immune system has a naturally occurring 'brake' that tells the body to silence key killer immune cells called CD8+ T-cells ...
May 22, 2024
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In a stride toward enhancing cancer treatment, University of Birmingham researchers are using organ-on-a-chip technology to imitate the liver's environment and improve immunotherapy for liver cancer.
May 21, 2024
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A novel therapy that reprograms immune cells to promote antitumor activity helped shrink hard-to-treat prostate and bladder cancers in mice, according to research from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and its Bloomberg~Kimmel ...
May 21, 2024
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When cells become tumor cells, their metabolism changes fundamentally. Researchers at the University of Basel and the University Hospital Basel have now demonstrated that this change leaves traces that could provide targets ...
May 21, 2024
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Surgical teams at NYU Langone Health performed the world's first genetically modified pig kidney transplant into a human body in September and November 2021, and then transplanted two pig hearts in the summer of 2022. These ...
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