CREDIT: CENTERS FOR DISEASE CONTROL AND PREVENTION This image illustrates the beginning stages of an influenza infection and shows what happens after the influenza viruses enter the human body. RIVERSIDE, Calif. (www.ucr.edu) — A team of researchers, co-led by a University of California, Riverside professor, has found a long-sought-after mechanism in human cells that creates...
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After one dose of gene therapy, hemophilia B patients maintain near-normal levels of clotting factor
Researchers are reporting the highest and most sustained levels to date of an essential blood-clotting factor IX in patients with the inherited bleeding disorder hemophilia B. After receiving a single dose of an experimental gene therapy in a clinical trial, patients with hemophilia produced near-normal levels of clotting factor IX, allowing them to stop clotting...
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Researchers Discover ‘Off’ Switch For Asthma Attacks
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine have discovered a cellular “off” switch to deactivate the compounds that cause a severe inflammatory response, which results in asthma attacks. According to Nicola Heller from Johns Hopkins, asthma patients experience debilitating symptoms because of the consistent activity of the proteins that are not switched “off”...
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Novartis’ drug tops chemotherapy in untreated lung cancer patients
Novartis AG said its cancer drug, Zykadia, was twice as effective as chemotherapy in slowing the progression of a rare form of lung cancer in a late-stage study. Swiss drugmaker Novartis’ logo is seen behind scaffolding at the company’s plant in the northern Swiss town of Stein in this January 27, 2015 file photo. REUTERS/Arnd...
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One Big Question: How close are we to a cancer vaccine?
Earlier this year we reported on new research that focused on training the body’s own immune cells to fight cancer through a process known as adoptive immunotherapy. The process involves removing immune-system white blood cells known as T-cells, genetically modifying them to recognize certain proteins involved with cancer cells, then injecting them back in their body where they...
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Discovery of superparamagnetism in sub-millimeter-sized magnetite porous single crystals
Abstract In this work, sub-millimeter-sized magnetite porous single crystals were found to exhibit unique superparamagnetism rather than the known ferrimagnetism. This superparamagnetism was intimately related to the hydrothermal formation process, during which high lattice stress of ca. 6 GPa and large lattice strain of ca. would change the exchange constants of α, β, and ν...
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Combination of NSAIDs and TNF-inhibitors shows benefit for ankylosing spondylitis
WASHINGTON — A combination of nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs and TNF-inhibitors may help slow down spine damage in ankylosing spondylitis, according to new research findings presented this week at the American College of Rheumatology Annual Scientific Meeting in Washington. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is an inflammatory form of arthritis that frequently affects the joints of the spine....