Boosting immune cell memory to improve vaccines and cancer immunotherapy
Credit: UC San Diego Health Vaccines and cancer immunotherapies do essentially the same thing: They boost a person's immune system, ...
Month: August 2017
Mass. General team reports first response of central nervous system tumor to CAR T-cells
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, a Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) research team reports a remarkable ...
New app uses smartphone selfies to screen for pancreatic cancer
Credit: Paul G. Allen School of Computer Science & Engineering Pancreatic cancer has one of the worst prognoses -- with ...
Concurrent treatment with OX40- and PD1-targeted cancer immunotherapies may be detrimental
Bottom Line: Concurrent administration of the T-cell stimulating anti-OX40 antibody and the immune checkpoint inhibitor anti-PD1 antibody attenuated the effect ...
Portland State research in ancient forests show link between climate change and wildfires
(Portland, Ore.) August 28, 2017 - Portland State researchers studying centuries-old trees in South America have found a tight correlation ...
New member of NAS reveals how animals select good microbes, reject harmful ones
Credit: Kent Nishimura Margaret McFall-Ngai, professor and director of the Pacific Biosciences Research Center, School of Ocean and Earth Science ...
New technique to aid IVF embryo selection
Credit: The IVF image is a freely usable public domain image with no copyright or acknowledgment required. Researchers at the ...
Bone marrow protein may be target for improving stem cell transplants
Credit: University of Pennsylvania Bone marrow contains hematopoetic stem cells, the precursors to every blood cell type. These cells spring ...
New liquid-metal membrane technology may help make hydrogen fuel cell vehicles viable
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - While cars powered by hydrogen fuel cells offer clear advantages over the ...
NJIT Oil spill expert assesses use of deep-sea dispersants in Deepwater Horizon cleanup
More than seven years after the Deepwater Horizon drilling rig exploded, sending up to 900,000 tons of oil and natural ...
Undergraduates develop tools to diagnose Alzheimer’s disease before patients show symptoms
Credit: University of Maryland COLLEGE PARK, Md. - A team of seven University of Maryland A. James Clark School of ...
Country’s largest estuary facing increasing acidification risk
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States and one of the largest in the world, ...
Single-nucleus RNA sequencing, droplet by droplet
Credit: Susannah M. Hamilton and Tom Ulrich, Broad Communications Last year Broad researchers described a single-nucleus RNA sequencing method called ...
Algae fortifies coral reefs in past and present
Credit: Anna Weiss The Great Barrier Reef, and most other large reefs around the world, owe their bulk in large ...
It’s not a rat’s race for human stem cells grafted to repair spinal cord injuries
More than one-and-a-half years after implantation, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and the San Diego ...
Climate may quickly drive forest-eating beetles north, says study
Credit: Kevin Krajick/Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory Over the next few decades, global warming-related rises in winter temperatures could significantly extend the ...
Study corrects the record on the relative risk of Alzheimer’s between men and women
Credit: USC Stevens Neuroimaging and Informatics Institute White women whose genetic makeup puts them at higher risk for Alzheimer's disease ...
Repetitive elements shape embryonic chromatin landscape
(Helmholtz Zentrum München - German Research Center for Environmental Health) Retrotransposons are repetitive elements that form almost half of the ...
Chronic lack of sleep increases risk-seeking
Young adults have a natural sleep requirement of about 9 hours a day on average, older adults 7.5 hours. Many ...
Eating triggers endorphin release in the brain
Credit: Turku PET Centre Finnish researchers have revealed how eating stimulates brain's endogenous opioid system to signal pleasure and satiety. ...
