Immune cell policing offers insights into cancer, autoimmune disease
Credit: Salk Institute LA JOLLA -- Nov. 6, 2017 Regulatory T cells (Tregs) are the traffic cops of the immune ...
Ohio State’s Albert de la Chapelle receives Lifetime Achievement Award
Columbus, Ohio - Albert de la Chapelle, MD, PhD, Distinguished University Professor in the Department of Cancer Biology and Genetics ...
Novel Nano-CT device creates high-resolution 3D-X-rays of tiny velvet worm legs
Credit: Mueller / TUM Computer Tomography (CT) is a standard procedure in hospitals, but so far, the technology has not ...
Can cannabinoids be used to treat cancer?
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, Nov. 6, 2017-When cannabinoids activate signaling pathways in cancer cells they ...
HCI study identifies enhanced impact of treatment for hereditary cancer patients
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - People with an inherited syndrome called familial adenomatous polyposis (FAP) have a ...
Depressed with a chronic disease? Consider alternative therapies
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Nov. 6, 2017 - Scientists are finding more evidence that commonly prescribed antidepressants aren't effective ...
US-born workers receive disability benefits more often than workers from abroad
No matter where they came from, people born outside the United States but working here are much less likely to ...
New research targets cancer’s ‘Achilles’ Heel’
Credit: Northwestern University Northwestern Engineering's Vadim Backman has developed an effective new strategy for treating cancer, which has wiped out ...
Age-old malaria treatment found to improve nanoparticle delivery to tumors
Credit: Houston Methodist A new study shows that a 70-year-old malaria drug can block immune cells in the liver so ...
Flavonoid derivatives targeting NF-kappaB
Nuclear factor-kappaB (NF-kappaB) has been reported to regulate various genes involved in cancer and inflammation. Accordingly, drugs inhibiting NF-kappaB may ...
FDG PET shows tumor DNA levels in blood are linked to NSCLC aggressiveness
Credit: Silvia Morbelli, et al., San Martino Hospital, University of Genoa, Italy. RESTON, VA - Italian researches have demonstrated a ...
IOS Press acquires StemBook
Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 6, 2017 - IOS Press, an international publisher providing content for scientific, technical and medical communities, ...
ESMO Asia 2017 Congress
LUGANO-SINGAPORE, Nov. 6, 2017 - The European Society for Medical Oncology (ESMO), the leading professional organisation for medical oncology, is ...
Younger women with advanced breast cancer needlessly excluded from treatment trials
Lisbon, Portugal: Pre-menopausal women with the most common type of advanced breast cancer are usually excluded from medical research unnecessarily, ...
Liquid biopsy spots aggressive pediatric brainstem cancer earlier without surgery
Credit: Children's National Health System SAN FRANCISCO -- A particularly aggressive form of pediatric cancer can be spotted reliably by ...
New techniques give blood biopsies greater promise
Researchers at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Koch Institute at MIT, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, and Massachusetts General Hospital ...
Study reveals large disparities in survival for patients with HPV-associated cancers
A new study found large disparities by sex, race, and age in survival for patients diagnosed with different cancers caused ...
Biologics do not increase the risk of second malignancy in rheumatoid arthritis patients
SAN DIEGO - Treatment with biologics does not increase the risk of a second malignancy in rheumatoid arthritis patients who ...
Colon cancer breakthrough could lead to prevention — and the foods that can help
Credit: University of Warwick Colon cancer, Crohn's, and other gut diseases could be better treated or prevented, thanks to a ...
Can environmental toxins disrupt the biological ‘clock’?
Credit: Rensselaer Troy, N.Y. - Can environmental toxins disrupt circadian rhythms - the biological "clock" whose disturbance is linked to ...
