BY CHARLES PILLER These MRI images show brain swelling in the cerebral cortex—the outer large section of the brain—of a Florida woman who died after receiving the experimental Alzheimer’s drug lecanemab. Before treatment with the antibody, a scan of her cerebral cortex (left) reveals characteristic folds of the temporal lobes. Afterward (right), extreme swelling made...
by NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases Graphical abstract. Credit: Cell (2022). DOI: 10.1016/j.cell.2022.10.006 An experimental therapeutic cancer vaccine induced two distinct and desirable immune system responses that led to significant tumor regression in mice, report investigators from the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health. The researchers found...
