The emergence of drug-resistant bacteria is a global threat to human health, and the development of new antibiotics from scratch is an extremely expensive and time-consuming process. To address this urgent issue, researchers ...
Mar 13, 2024
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Many childhood cancers start with a hijacking at the molecular level. A group of abnormal proteins known as fusion proteins aberrantly engages with a collection of proteins that switches genes on and off. As a result, genes ...
Mar 6, 2024
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Any drug that is taken orally must pass through the lining of the digestive tract. Transporter proteins found on cells that line the GI tract help with this process, but for many drugs, it's not known which of those transporters ...
Feb 20, 2024
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New research by the University of Sussex could help to increase life expectancy and improve treatment for an aggressive brain cancer, which impacts thousands of people every year in the UK, and hundreds of thousands worldwide.
Feb 15, 2024
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Italian scientists from Università Cattolica at Rome have discovered an important genetic mechanism that pancreatic cancer cells employ to evade therapies, paving the way to new drugs for a killer disease. The tumor evades ...
Feb 6, 2024
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Doctors have nearly a dozen new targeted drugs to treat patients with acute myeloid leukemia, or AML, yet three of four patients still die within five years. Some patients succumb within just a month or two, despite the battery ...
Feb 2, 2024
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A new treatment shows promise against the deadly neurodegenerative disease ALS, a study based on mice showed Tuesday.
Jan 31, 2024
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Cleveland Clinic researchers have successfully developed a therapeutic peptide that blocks aggressive cancer cells from multiplying rapidly. The results highlight a potential new strategy for developing targeted treatments ...
Jan 17, 2024
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Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR T, has dramatically improved the treatment of certain blood cancers. Initially approved for patients who had failed multiple lines of therapy, clinical trials have shown CAR ...
Jan 17, 2024
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For a third season, COVID-19 cases are rising ahead of the holidays, this time with a more recent variant driving infections.
Dec 23, 2023
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