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Vitamin B5 could help improve red blood cell production in people with myelodysplastic syndromes
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Vitamin B5 could help improve red blood cell production in people with myelodysplastic syndromes

by The Francis Crick Institute Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Scientists from Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London and the Francis Crick Institute, have uncovered why patients with a rare type of blood cancer suffer from ineffective red blood cell production, and how vitamin B5 could be combined with existing drugs to improve...

Treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome by hypomethylating agents may activate an oncogene
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Treatment for myelodysplastic syndrome by hypomethylating agents may activate an oncogene

by Brigham and Women’s Hospital Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Hypomethylating agents (HMA) are currently used as a first-line treatment for patients with myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS), and increasingly in other diseases, but their mechanism of action is not clear. HMAs may affect many genes and could potentially activate an oncogene—a gene that contributes to the development...