Many serious pulmonary diseases, including genetic lung diseases, lack an effective treatment other than the most extreme: lung transplant. A team at Boston Children's Hospital envisions a much better option: cell therapy, ...
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How do cancer cells differ from healthy cells? A new machine learning algorithm called "ikarus" knows the answer, reports a team led by MDC bioinformatician Altuna Akalin in the journal Genome Biology. The AI program has ...
Jun 10, 2022
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One of the hallmarks of Parkinson's disease (PD) is the accumulation in the brain of a protein known as alpha-synuclein. For more than two decades, alpha-synuclein has been a focal point of attention for researchers, clinicians ...
Jun 9, 2022
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The emergence of COVID-19 had doctors racing to define and treat the new disease, but they soon discovered it was not the only novel illness caused by SARS-CoV-2. A subset of children infected by the virus also experienced ...
May 16, 2022
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An unexpected trick in cancer's playbook may fool an important component of our immune systems into knocking down our natural defenses against solid tumors.
May 13, 2022
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Researchers at the University of Bern and University Hospital Bern have achieved a breakthrough in a particularly aggressive form of prostate cancer. In tissue samples from advanced brain metastases, they were able to establish ...
May 12, 2022
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Male testis tissue that is cryopreserved can be reimplanted after more than 20 years and will go on to make viable sperm, according to a new study in rodents in the open-access journal PLOS Biology by Eoin Whelan of the School ...
May 10, 2022
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Elevated levels of an enzyme called PHGDH in the blood of older adults could be an early warning sign of Alzheimer's disease, and a study led by the University of California San Diego provides new evidence to support this ...
May 3, 2022
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Based on the findings of a new study led by the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), part of City of Hope, a coast-to-coast clinical trial is planned that, if successful, could lead to FDA approval of the first ...
May 3, 2022
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More and more mutations clutter up our DNA as we age. Mostly, these don't cause problems. But sometimes, a switch will flip, and a mutated cell turns cancerous. Can we see this shift in time to prevent or treat cancer before ...
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