Teaching the body's immune cells to recognize and fight cancer is one of the holy grails in medicine. Over the past two decades, researchers have developed new immunotherapy drugs that stimulate a patient's immune cells to ...
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In her synthetic biology lab, Karmella Haynes focuses much of her effort on developing better ways of exploring how human body cells work – or don't work like they should. She'll be applying her expertise in that area to ...
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Cancer that splits and develops in new organs around the body becomes significantly more difficult to fight. Now, researchers at Chalmers have shown that these metastatic cancers, that spread from the original, adapt their ...
Nov 17, 2022
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A Northwestern University synthetic biology team has created a new technology for modifying human cells to create programmable therapeutics that could travel the body and selectively target cancer and other sites of disease.
Apr 17, 2014
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The AACR 2018 Meeting in Chicago is ending today and has featured the major new results in cancer treatment and immunotherapy treatments in particular. Immunotherapy, the use of the patient's own immune system to attack their ...
Apr 20, 2018
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A new paper soon to be released in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute indicates that early-onset colorectal cancer is likely not a different disease from average-onset colorectal cancer.
Aug 18, 2021
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As medical technology advances, many diseases could be detected, prevented and cured with cells, rather than pills.
Aug 13, 2023
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A Stanford-designed project has built a startling new tool for diagnostic medicine: living biosensors made of bacteria that glow a particular color when they detect trouble.
Jun 2, 2015
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Researchers funded by the Biotechnology and Biological Sciences Research Council (BBSRC) have taken a step towards producing better vaccines against Bluetongue – an important disease of livestock - after successfully ...
Aug 1, 2011
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Viruses in the herpesvirus family are leading causes of birth defects, blindness, and failed organ transplants worldwide. Antiviral drugs can combat these viruses, but patients often develop resistance to the drugs—rendering ...
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