by Anne Sliper Midling, Norwegian University of Science and Technology Many people with bone marrow cancer often end up with perforations in their bone tissue. This is very painful to live with. The photo shows these kinds of perforations in the skull. Could something as simple as a certain type of sugar water be medicine for...
by Tim Pilgrim, Brunel University In the English-speaking world, dyslexia is a familiar learning disorder. Most people are likely to have known someone who found reading and writing trickier than their peers. In fact, more than one in 10 people that grew up with English as their first language are said to have dyslexia, with wide consensus pointing...
by Monash University Caption: Super resolution image of zebrafish skeletal muscle fibres. Each line marks the boundary of a sarcomere, the basic unit of contraction, with red labelling Bag3, and green labelling Actinin. Stephen Greenspan and Laura Zah were devastated when they learned their son Alexander had a rare genetic mutation, which causes a deadly neuromuscular...
IMPACT JOURNALS LLC Volume 11, Issue 28 of Oncotarget features “Rapid onset type 1 diabetes with anti-PD-1 directed therapy“, by Yun et al. and reported that Type 1 diabetes is a rare immune-related adverse event caused by checkpoint inhibitors with serious risk for diabetic ketoacidosis. Of the patients who received immunotherapy, 5 patients were found to have type 1 diabetes,...
KING’S COLLEGE LONDON Patients of Black ethnicity have an increased risk of requiring hospital admission for COVID-19, while patients of Asian ethnicity have an increased risk of dying in hospital from COVID-19, compared to White patients, a study has found. Data analysis published today (Friday 9th October, 2020) in EClinicalMedicine, led by researchers at King’s College London, with...
A study led by researchers at WIMR has, for the first time, demonstrated how CD47 – a cell surface protein – drives biological dysfunctions in the body, such as decreased circulation and poor metabolic homeostasis, both of which worsen with age. Researchers hope developing therapies that target CD47 will significantly reduce the impact these health issues have on older...
A drug has shown potential to improve heart function in women diagnosed with preeclampsia during their pregnancy, research carried out by Manchester University NHS Foundation Trust (MFT) and The University of Manchester (UoM) – has found. The results of the ‘Postnatal enalapril to Improve Cardiovascular fUnction following preterm Preeclampsia’ (PICk-UP) feasibility trial were published in the peer-reviewed journal, Hypertension. Enalapril is medicine already available...
by Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy International neoantigen initiative Tumor Neoantigen Selection Alliance (TESLA) identifies parameters for cancer vaccine or cell therapy advancement. Neoantigens, tiny markers that arise from cancer mutations, flag cells as cancerous and could be the key to unlocking a new generation of immunotherapies. Targeting the “right” neoantigens—in a cancer vaccine or...
by European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Malignant tumors of the peripheral nerve are rare but aggressive and very difficult to treat successfully. Now, researchers in the U.S. have shown that a combination of two types of anti-cancer drugs, MEK and SHP2 inhibitors, is effective in targeting the mechanism that drives the cancer’s growth. Although...
By REUTERS and NATALIE RAHHAL US HEALTH EDITOR PUBLISHED: 12:39 EDT, 8 October 2020 Giving coronavirus patients an arthritis drug, on top of the antiviral, remdesivir, reduces their odds of dying by 35 percent, the drug’s maker, Eli Lilly announced Thursday. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) sponsored study found that the combination worked best for patients sick...
