Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

What do you know about scleroderma?

Scleroderma, also known as systemic sclerosis, is a group of rare diseases that involve the hardening and tightening of the skin. It also may cause problems in the blood vessels, internal organs and digestive tract.

Oncology & Cancer

Reprogramming of immune cells shown to fight off melanoma

A new way of reprogramming our immune cells to shrink or kill off cancer cells has been shown to work in the otherwise hard to treat and devastating skin cancer, melanoma. The University of Bristol-led discovery, published ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

Researchers home in on a new cause of Stargardt disease

Using a new stem-cell based model made from skin cells, scientists found the first direct evidence that Stargardt-related ABCA4 gene mutations affect a layer of cells in the eye called the retinal pigment epithelium (RPE). ...

Oncology & Cancer

FLASH radiation therapy shows promise in first-in-human trial

FLASH radiation treatment—which delivers therapeutic doses of radiation in a fraction of a second—may hold promise as a potential treatment for tough-to-kill tumors, a first-in-human study in a small number of people ...

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