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Researchers Find Immune Cells that Guard Frequent Site of Cancer Spread

September 16, 2021
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Lebanon, NH — In the progressing field of immunotherapy, surprisingly little is known about immunity to metastatic tumours in locations such as lymph nodes, a frequent place where cancers first spread....

New Hydrogel Matrix Delivers Healing Stem Cells to Injured Elderly Muscles

August 16, 2018
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Atlanta, GA – A car accident leaves an ageing patient with severe muscle injuries that won’t heal. Treatment with muscle stem cells from a donor might restore damaged tissue, but doctors...

Light-Emitting Nanoparticles Could Provide Safer Way for Deep-Tissue Imaging

August 15, 2018
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Berkeley, CA – A research team has demonstrated how light-emitting nanoparticles, developed at the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab), can be...

Personalized Vaccine Against Ovarian Cancer Shows Promise in Pilot Study

April 11, 2018
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New York, NY – A Ludwig Cancer Research study has shown that an entirely new type of personalized cancer vaccine induces novel, potent and clinically effective immune responses in patients receiving...

New Strategy to Develop Enhanced Malaria Vaccine

April 11, 2018
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New Haven, CO – A serum developed by Yale researchers reduces infection from malaria in mice, according to a new study. It works by attacking a protein in the saliva of the mosquitos infected...

Accurate Computational Model Developed to Predict How Aggressive Cancer Cells Move and Spread

February 15, 2018
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Newark, DE – A brief chat at a Faculty Senate meeting put two University of Delaware researchers onto an idea that could be of great value to cancer researchers.

Stem-Cell Based Treatment Repairs Damaged Brain Tissue after Stroke

February 15, 2018
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Athens, GA – A team of researchers at the University of Georgia’s Regenerative Bioscience Center and ArunA Biomedical, a UGA startup company, have developed a new treatment for stroke that...

Study Links Asthma Medication to Infertility in Women

February 15, 2018
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Adelaide, Australia – Women with asthma who only use short-acting asthma relievers take longer to become pregnant than other women, according to international research led by the University of...

Heart Protein Could Improve Stem Cell Therapy After Heart Attack

February 13, 2018
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Philadelphia, PA – Researchers may have found a way to reduce ongoing heart damage that occurs long after a severe heart attack by improving the longevity of stem cells injected into the heart.

Potential New Drug and Insights into Molecular Mechanism Behind Bipolar Disorder

February 5, 2018
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Brazil – Bipolar Disorder (BD) is a multifactorial brain disorder in which patients experience radical shifts in mood and undergo periods of depression followed by periods of mania.

Additional Test to Help Clinicians Diagnose Asthma More Accurately

December 21, 2017
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Rochester, MN – Although about 24 million Americans are diagnosed with asthma every year, there is no single test that can diagnose the disease.

Deep Brain Stimulation Correlates with Longer Survival for Parkinson’s Patients

December 21, 2017
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Baltimore, MD – A treatment called deep brain stimulation (DBS) could extend the life of people with Parkinson’s disease.

Using Drug for Iron Overload Could Make Leakaemia Treatment More Effective

December 21, 2017
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London, UK – Chemotherapy for one type of leukaemia could be improved by giving patients a drug currently used to treat an unrelated condition, new research shows.

New Detection System Could Dramatically Improve Early Disease Diagnosis

December 20, 2017
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London, UK – The presence of, or changes in the concentration of, certain proteins in biological fluids can be indicators of disease. However, in the early stages of disease these ‘biomarkers’...

Arthritis Drug Could Enhance Existing Treatment of Advanced Skin Cancer

December 19, 2017
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Norwich, UK – Treatment for the most deadly form of skin cancer could be more effective if combined with a well-known drug for rheumatoid arthritis, new research has shown.

Discovery Could Improve Diagnosis and Early Screening of Kidney Stone Disease

December 19, 2017
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Singapore – An interdisciplinary research team led by the National University of Singapore (NUS) has recently discovered a unique panel of urine biomarkers that could accurately diagnose nephrolithiasis,...

Experimental Heroin Vaccine Blocks Drug Effects of Heroine in Preclinical Studies

December 18, 2017
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Bethesda, MD – Researchers with the U.S. Military HIV Research Program at the Walter Reed Army Institute of Research (WRAIR) report that an experimental heroin vaccine induced antibodies that...

Researchers Developed Method for Long-Term Prevention of Organ Rejection

December 8, 2017
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Konstanz, Germany – Approximately one half of all organ recipients experience antibody-mediated organ rejection within ten years of the transplantation.

New Compound Restores Immune Response in Patients with Melanoma

December 8, 2017
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Lugano, Switzerland – A novel compound may restore immune response in patients with melanoma, according to a study presented at the ESMO Immuno Oncology Congress 2017.

Gene Therapy Produces Clotting Factor to Safely Stop Bleeding in Haemophilia B Patients

December 7, 2017
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Philadelphia, PA – A team of gene therapy researchers has reported positive results in a phase 1/2 clinical trial for the inherited bleeding disorder haemophilia B.

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