A protein that provides essential protection against free radicals inside the cell provokes damaging inflammation when released outside, activating immune cells and worsening damage following a stroke, according to a new ...
May 20, 2021
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A combination of two drugs that target different proteins on immune system T cells kept advanced melanoma in check significantly longer than one of the drugs alone in a phase 3 clinical trial involving 714 patients. Dana-Farber ...
May 20, 2021
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A study led by MedUni Vienna (Institute of Cancer Research and Comprehensive Cancer Center Vienna) sheds light on the mechanisms that lead to extremely aggressive metastasis in a particular type of pancreatic cancer, the ...
May 19, 2021
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Researchers from Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) report the formation of human cells containing a green fluorescent protein or GFP (one of the most important proteins in biology and fluorescence imaging) genetically ...
May 18, 2021
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Vaccines are often described as one of the greatest public health interventions in recent history, based on the profound effect that they have had in decreasing global morbidity and mortality. Immunizations currently prevent ...
May 13, 2021
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US biotech firm Novavax on Monday said it had positive results from preclinical studies of a shot combining its influenza and COVID vaccine candidates.
May 10, 2021
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Cancer drugs called immune checkpoint inhibitors boost the immune system's ability to find and destroy tumor cells, but they don't work for most patients. Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts ...
May 6, 2021
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The most complete picture yet is shedding light on how antibodies produced in people who effectively fight off SARS-CoV-2 work to neutralize the part of the virus responsible for causing infection. In the journal Science, ...
May 4, 2021
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Antibodies are not only produced by our immune cells to fight viruses and other pathogens in the body. For a few decades now, medicine has also been using antibodies produced by biotechnology as drugs. This is because antibodies ...
Apr 15, 2021
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One of the characteristic hallmarks of Alzheimer's disease (AD) is the buildup of amyloid-beta plaques in the brain. Most therapies designed to treat AD target these plaques, but they've largely failed in clinical trials. ...
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