Oncology & Cancer
To improve immunotherapy, researchers look to shift immune cells' access to sugar
Cancer cells and immune cells share something in common: They both love sugar.
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Subset of COVID-19 patients have increased bleeding risk
The human body strives to keep itself in homeostasis, or balance. When blood clots are created, the body's innate response is to break the clots down to prevent significant health problems from arising.
Feb 1, 2021
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Medications
Plitidepsin found to work better than remdesivir for treating COVID-19
A large team of researchers affiliated with a host of institutions in the U.S., France and Spain has found that the drug plitidepsin worked better at treating COVID-19 than did remdesivir in a lab setting. In their paper ...
Health informatics
Using AI to remove racial disparity in knee pain diagnosis
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. has developed an artificial-intelligence-based application for categorizing the degree of pain in patients suffering from osteoarthritis in their knees. ...
Genetics
Researchers identify new genetic disorder that affects brain, craniofacial skeleton
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health have discovered a new genetic disorder characterized by developmental delays and malformations of the brain, heart and facial features. Named linkage-specific-deubiquitylation-deficiency-induced ...
Jan 20, 2021
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Arthritis & Rheumatism
Target discovered that halts osteoarthritis-type knee cartilage degeneration
There is currently no cure for osteoarthritis, but a group of scientists believe they've discovered a method through which a simple knee injection could potentially stop the disease's effects. These researchers showed that ...
Jan 15, 2021
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Medical research
Novel RNA factors may help cancer cells thrive
Like Peter Pan, some cells never grow up. In cancer, undifferentiated stem cells may help tumors such as glioblastoma become more aggressive than other forms of the disease. Certain groups of genes are supposed to help cells ...
Jan 8, 2021
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Immunology
Sugar-binding protein galectin-1 could be a biomarker for patients at risk of life threatening sepsis
A sugar-binding protein could fuel terrible inflammation and worsen sepsis, a disease that kills more than 270,000 people every year in the US alone, reports a team of researchers led by UConn Health in the 4 January issue ...
Jan 4, 2021
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Genetics
Study in mice shows genes may be altered through drug repurposing
Researchers at the University of Illinois Chicago have published a study showing a promising approach to using drug repurposing to treat genetic diseases.
Dec 17, 2020
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Oncology & Cancer
Errant DNA boosts immunotherapy effectiveness
DNA that ends up where it doesn't belong in cancer cells can unleash an immune response that makes tumors more susceptible to immunotherapy, the results of two UT Southwestern studies indicate. The findings, published online ...
Dec 17, 2020
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