by University of Queensland Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public DomainUniversity of Queensland researchers have identified an opportunity to reduce infections in people living with cystic fibrosis (CF). Professor Matt Sweet, Dr. Kaustav Das Gupta and Dr. James Curson from UQ’s Institute for Molecular Bioscience have discovered a fault in the bacteria-killing function of immune cells in people with...
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New treatment shows promise against fatal neurological disease: Study
French musician Guilhem Gallart, a member of the Fonky Family, is seen here with his partner Wahiba; he was diagnosed with ALS in 2015. A new treatment shows promise against the deadly neurodegenerative disease ALS, a study based on mice showed Tuesday. Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, sometimes called Lou Gehrig’s disease after the famous baseball player,...
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Promising approach against treatment-resistant cancer
ALBERT EINSTEIN COLLEGE OF MEDICINE March 7, 2022—(BRONX, NY)—A research team led by scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine has devised a novel and highly promising strategy for overcoming a key cause of cancer deaths: the ability of cancer cells to thrive in the face of chemotherapy drugs designed to destroy them. As described in the...
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Another promising approach for hard-to-treat blood cancers
by Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre Credit: CC0 Public Domain For patients with some hard-to-treat blood cancers, a simple “off-the-shelf” immunotherapy is achieving promising results. A clinical trial of the developmental drug Glofitamab has shown it can produce a durable “complete response”—meaning the cancer became undetectable—in patients with relapsed or treatment resistant B-cell lymphomas. One option for these...