Natural killers: Using the body's cells to target breast cancer
It sounds like a plot from a Quentin Tarantino movie—something sets off natural killers and sends them on a killing spree.
Jun 16, 2021
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It sounds like a plot from a Quentin Tarantino movie—something sets off natural killers and sends them on a killing spree.
Jun 16, 2021
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In 2015, researchers at UC San Francisco found a structure inside of tumor cells that biologists had never seen before. Even more surprising, a closer examination of the structure revealed that it contained signaling proteins known ...
May 12, 2021
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Scientists have shown that two existing drug candidates—JAK inhibitors and Mepron—hold potential as treatments for a deadly acute myeloid leukemia (AML) subtype that is more common in children.
Apr 14, 2021
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A consortium of researchers led by Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center investigators have completed the largest analysis of a new gene fusion they believe is responsible for development of a wide spectrum of cancer ...
Apr 15, 2019
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White blood cells, also known as monocytes, play a key role in the immune system's response to infection. They have been shown to fuse and form multinucleated giant cells (MGCs) during inflammatory reactions, or in response ...
Jan 15, 2019
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As resistance to existing antibiotics increases, new approaches to serious bacterial infections are needed. Now researchers at Lund University in Sweden, together with colleagues at the University of Massachusetts Medical ...
Dec 13, 2017
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Bone morphogenetic proteins, commonly used off-label to enhance pediatric spinal fusion (spinal arthrodesis), did not improve revision rates for pediatric spinal fusion, according to a study presented on March 14 at the American ...
Mar 14, 2017
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Charcot-Marie-Tooth disease is an inherited disorder that leads to a gradual loss of motor neurons and, eventually, paralysis. The condition is caused by genetic mutations that disrupts cells' energy factories, called mitochondria. ...
Oct 24, 2016
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A serious childhood cancer takes advantage of a quality control mechanism that usually protects cells from stress-induced damage to propel tumor growth, according to a new study led by researchers at UC San Francisco and ...
Jul 20, 2016
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A new strategy for engineering protein fusions—to make specific cell-targeted drugs without side effects—could enable a safer, more potent class of protein drugs. A team at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired ...
Apr 25, 2016
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