Deaths from ovarian cancer decline worldwide due to oral contraceptive use
Deaths from ovarian cancer fell worldwide between 2002 and 2012 and are predicted to continue to decline in the USA, European Union (EU) and, though...
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Obesity linked to improved survival in kidney
Despite being a risk factor for kidney cancer, obesity was linked to improved survival Obese or overweight patients with metastatic disease had significantly longer survival...
Protein subunit found to rescue afflicted neurons in Huntington’s disease
A montage of three images of single striatal neurons transfected with a disease-associated version of huntingtin, the protein that causes Huntington’s disease. Nuclei of untransfected...
From DNA to disease, study describes rare, new brain disorder
Credit: Ouyang et. al./Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. — In rare cases — for instance, among siblings in two families from Pakistan and Oman described in...
Promising drug leads identified to combat heart disease
Using a unique computational approach to rapidly sample, in millisecond time intervals, proteins in their natural state of gyrating, bobbing, and weaving, a research team...
Microchip enables fast, precise measurement of single-cell growth
A new technique invented at MIT can precisely measure the growth of many individual cells simultaneously. The advance holds promise for fast drug tests, offers...
New HIF-2 kidney cancer therapy more effective than current treatment, study shows
DALLAS – September 05, 2016 -A new class of drugs called HIF-2 inhibitors is more effective and better tolerated than the standard of care drug...
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