An experimental new app is designed to diagnose obstructive sleep apnea(Credit:monkeybusiness/Depositphotos) When doctors are trying to determine if someone...
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Vaccine Shows Promising Results for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients
TAMPA, Fla. – Immunotherapy is a fast growing area of cancer research. It involves developing therapies that use a patient’s own...
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Immunotherapy, gene therapy combination shows promise against glioblastoma
“Devastating” and “dismal.” That’s how leading researchers describe the present outlook for malignant brain tumors. The median survival rate for...
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FDA To Speed Up Review Of Roche Tecentriq As Immunotherapy Treatment For Bladder Cancer
Swiss pharmaceutical company Roche has announced that U.S. health regulators have agreed to grant priority review to its Tecentriq immunotherapy treatment for...
January 13, 2017January 13, 2017
Cancers Evade Immunotherapy By ‘Discarding the Evidence’ of Tumor-Specific Mutations
Discovery could explain widespread acquired resistance among patients treated with immune checkpoint blockade drugs. T-cells attacking a cancer cell. Results...
January 13, 2017January 13, 2017
Autoimmunity and infections: When the body fights itself
Basel-based doctors are on the trail of a possible connection between autoimmune diseases and infections: errors can occur when immune...
January 13, 2017January 13, 2017
New findings about stem cells in the brain of patients with epilepsy
Neural stem cells have been found in epileptic brain tissue — outside the regions of the brain where they normally...
January 13, 2017January 13, 2017
CtIP-Specific Roles during Cell Reprogramming Have Long-Term Consequences in the Survival and Fitness of Induced Pluripotent Stem Cells
Highlights DNA end resection mechanism is hyper-activated during reprogramming CtIP protein levels increase during mouse and human cell reprogramming Loss...
January 13, 2017January 13, 2017
Lipid metabolism is potential ‘Achilles’ heel’ for cancer stem cells
WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. — Researchers have discovered a metabolic signature critical for the functioning of “cancer stem cells” that initiate...
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Stem cells used to regenerate the external layer of a human heart
Summary: A process using human stem cells can generate the cells that cover the external surface of a human heart...