Oncology & Cancer
Chemotherapy alters immune cell landscape in pancreatic cancer
Chemotherapy affects the ability of a patient's immune system to attack pancreatic tumors, a new study shows.
Mar 1, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Severe herpesvirus infection beats adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma
In a recently published editorial in the journal Genes & Cancer, researcher Tatsuro Jo from the Japanese Red Cross Nagasaki Genbaku Hospital's Department of Hematology discussed aggressive type adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma ...
Feb 27, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Cellular senescence plays a significant role in cerebral tumors
Glioblastomas are the most common malignant tumors of the adult brain. They resist conventional treatment, including surgery, followed by radiation therapy and chemotherapy. Despite this armamentarium, glioblastomas inexorably ...
Feb 21, 2023
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Obstetrics & gynaecology
Study reveals why immunotherapies don't work on hardest-to-treat breast cancers
Thanks to advances in cancer therapies, most forms of breast cancer are highly treatable, especially when caught early.
Dec 15, 2022
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Medical research
Scientists identify multiple cell types that may contribute to treatment resistance in prostate cancer
Researchers have characterized prostate cancer cell dynamics at a single-cell resolution across the timespan of the disease—from its beginning to the point of androgen independence, where the tumor no longer responds to ...
Dec 13, 2022
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Medical research
Scientists reveal first close-up look at bats' immune response to live infection
In a world first, scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and colleagues in Singapore have sequenced the response to viral infection in colony-bred cave nectar bats (Eonycteris spelaea) at single-cell resolution. Published ...
Nov 23, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Scientists discover new mechanism associated with severe COVID-19
Researchers at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil have found that severe COVID-19 is associated with an imbalance in an important immune system signaling pathway. The discovery helps explain at the molecular level ...
Nov 23, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
A new way to fight diseases? Stop viruses from stealing nutrients
The immune system has long been touted as the body's primary defense against invading viruses, with the understanding that a strong immune response swiftly knocks out an infection while a weak one allows it to linger, leading ...
Nov 16, 2022
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Immunology
Protein kinase CK2 has key role in killer T cells during infection by Listeria monocytogenes
The protein kinase CK2 is involved in a wide range of biological processes and cellular functions, including inflammatory responses and pathologies associated with inflammation. Also, its aberrant expression and activity ...
Oct 31, 2022
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Medications
In pre-clinical trials, drug shows potential to combat exaggerated inflammation associated with COVID-19
Experiments involving animals and human cells conducted at the University of São Paulo (USP) in Brazil suggest that niclosamide, an anthelmintic widely used against tapeworms, effectively inhibits SARS-CoV-2 replication ...
Oct 21, 2022
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