Obstetrics & gynaecology
Study reveals why immunotherapies don't work on hardest-to-treat breast cancers
Thanks to advances in cancer therapies, most forms of breast cancer are highly treatable, especially when caught early.
Dec 15, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Team identifies how certain immune cells contribute to worse survival rates in HER2-positive breast cancer patients
Patients with a type of breast cancer called HER2-positive are less likely to survive if their initial treatment fails to eradicate the tumor completely and they have high levels of immune cells called tumor infiltrating ...
Nov 17, 2022
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Health
Fruit and vegetables: Is it better to peel them?
Many people's default when preparing fruit and vegetables is to peel them. But often, it's not necessary. There are important nutrients in the peel. And, what's more, discarded fruit and veg peels contribute to climate change.
Nov 10, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Newly identified protein drives breast cancer stemness and metastasis
A Northwestern Medicine study has identified a protein that drives breast cancer stemness and metastasis. The findings, enabled by machine learning, were published in the journal eLife.
Oct 17, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
How deadly brain cancer evades treatments
McMaster University researcher Sheila Singh and her team have discovered how glioblastoma, a lethal brain cancer, can evade treatments and kill.
Sep 29, 2022
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Immunology
A novel COVID-19 vaccine using modified bacterial DNA
Researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine, with colleagues elsewhere, describe a different way to build a COVID-19 vaccine, one that would, in theory, remain effective against new and emerging variants ...
Jul 21, 2022
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
Mass spectrometry to detect key markers of Alzheimer's
A group of Skoltech scientists led by Professor Evgeny Nikolaev in collaboration with colleagues from MIPT, Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology of RAS, and Emanuel Institute of Biochemical Physics of RAS has overviewed ...
May 19, 2022
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Oncology & Cancer
Some Latino children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia face higher risk of relapse
Some Latino children diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) were more likely to experience relapse than non-Hispanic white children, according to data presented at the AACR Annual Meeting 2022, held April 8-13. ...
Apr 12, 2022
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pesticide linked to chronic kidney disease
A commonly available pesticide has been associated with an increased risk of chronic kidney disease (CKD) in a University of Queensland study.
Oct 14, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Highlighting new innovations in early cancer detection
The latest special issue of PLOS Medicine features five studies outlining novel strategies for detecting cancer and for identifying minimal residual disease—when a small amount of tumor cells survive treatment, potentially ...
Aug 31, 2021
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