Thirty years ago, Gail Sonenshein was studying cancer in immune cells when she read an article in the New York Times that would shape the rest of her career. The article described a new residency program in women's health, ...
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A new study, published online ahead of print in Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer on December 6, has identified a novel biomarker for ICIs in human cancers.
Dec 13, 2023
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In order for immune cells to do their job, they need to know against whom they should direct their attack. Research teams at the University of Würzburg have identified new details in this process.
Dec 8, 2023
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As one of the most insidious diseases in the world, cancer has few treatments that work to eradicate it completely. Now, a new approach pioneered by two researchers working at the University of Missouri's Roy Blunt NextGen ...
Dec 4, 2023
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Combining a pair of experimental drugs may help treat malignant peripheral nerve sheath tumors with fewer harmful side effects, according to preliminary animal studies led by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer ...
Nov 30, 2023
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A new paper in Science Advances details how scientists have succeeded in mapping a central part of the immune system—the HLA class II molecules—while accurately predicting how they display fragments of pathogens on the ...
Nov 27, 2023
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Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have demonstrated how amyloid beta, a peptide associated with Alzheimer's disease, can interact with a protein receptor on immune cells in the brain. This triggers a reaction that damages ...
Nov 8, 2023
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Clostridioides difficile (C. diff) intestinal infections can cause severe, debilitating diarrhea in patients who are hospitalized or on immunosuppressive therapies. The infections can be very hard to eradicate, roaring back ...
Oct 26, 2023
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If you're one of the nearly 25 percent of people with the gene variant known as APOE4, you have a higher-than-average chance of developing Alzheimer's disease. But while scientists have long known that APOE4 leads to changes ...
Oct 20, 2023
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Researchers at Harvard Medical School have discovered that a molecule made by Streptococcus pyogenes—the bacterium that causes strep throat and other infections—could help explain several long-standing medical mysteries, ...
Oct 6, 2023
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