Aging (senescent) cells, which stop dividing but don't die, can accumulate in the body over the years and fuel chronic inflammation that contributes to conditions such as cancer and degenerative disorders.
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Researchers with the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine and collaborators have shown that immature natural killer (NK) cells are present in patients with triple-negative ...
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According to the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, prostate cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death among men. One of the standard approaches for the diagnosis and treatment of prostate cancer involves ...
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When parts of the liver are removed, the body can replace the missing tissue. A team of researchers at the Technical University of Munich (TUM) has now discovered that the success of this process depends to a large extent ...
Mar 1, 2023
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Rheumatoid arthritis (RA), which causes painful swelling of the joints, is a form of autoimmune disease where otherwise healthy tissue in a patient's joint gets mistaken for an intruder and is attacked by the immune system. ...
An interdisciplinary collaboration 10 years in the making used a materials science approach to "fingerprint" the calcium mineral deposits known as microcalcifications that reveal pathological clues to the progression of breast ...
Feb 22, 2023
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A team of researchers from the Keck School of Medicine of USC found that exposure to a mixture of synthetic chemicals found widely in the environment alters several critical biological processes, including the metabolism ...
Feb 22, 2023
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Nearly 120 years after Alois Alzheimer reported what he learned from studying the brain of a patient who suffered from symptoms of what we now call "Alzheimer's disease," researchers are still struggling to understand the ...
Feb 21, 2023
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The immense progress in the field of therapy options over the past years has significantly improved the chances of cure for patients with colon cancer. However, these new approaches, such as immunotherapies, require precise ...
Feb 14, 2023
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New UCLA research suggests that smoking tobacco and vaping electronic cigarettes may increase healthy young people's risk for developing severe COVID illness.
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