T-cell leukaemia: Cancer cells take advantage of ‘survival protein’
The overproduction of the BCL-2 protein is due to a defect in the ribosome, the protein factory of the cell. This defect is found in...
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Plaster which sticks inside the mouth will revolutionize treatment of oral conditions
Credit: University of Sheffield A plaster which sticks to the inside of your mouth is revolutionising the treatment of painful recurring ulcers. Scientists from the...
Lethal prostate cancer treatment may benefit from combination immunotherapy
Credit: Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Bloomberg~Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy (BKI) released a study...
Children with existing allergies should be screened for an emerging, severe chronic food allergy
Credit: Children's Hospital of Philadelphia Children with known skin, food and respiratory allergies should be screened for an emerging, chronic food allergy called eosinophilic esophagitis...
Clostridium difficile infections have decreased 36 percent in Canadian hospitals
Rates of C. difficile infections have decreased 36% in hospitals across Canada, although the virulent NAP1 strain associated with severe illness and deaths is the...
Plaster which sticks inside the mouth will revolutionise treatment of oral conditions
Credit: University of Sheffield A plaster which sticks to the inside of your mouth is revolutionising the treatment of painful recurring ulcers. Scientists from the...
American College of Rheumatology and Emirates Society for Rheumatology co-host Conference
The American College of Rheumatology (ACR) is collaborating with the Emirates Society for Rheumatology (ESR) to co-host their 4th Annual Conference in Dubai, United Arab...
Combining targeted radionuclide therapy and immunotherapy could improve melanoma survival
Credit: R Hernandez, R Patel, et al., University of Wisconsin-Madison, Madison, Wisc. PHILADELPHIA - Research presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of...
Novel nuclear medicine probe will help assess new drugs for neurodegenerative diseases
Credit: Z Cai and S Li et al., Yale University, New Haven, Conn. PHILADELPHIA - New nuclear medicine tracers could help medical researchers find a...
Opening of the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting
Scientific evidence as an answer to fake news - this is the guiding idea of the 68th Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, which has been opened...
Novel PET tracer successfully images cardiovascular infections
Credit: Sanjiv Sam Gambhir, MD, PhD, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA. PHILADELPHIA - A novel positron emission tomography (PET) tracer has been developed...
Improved PSMA-targeting agent more effective for prostate cancer diagnosis/therapy in mice
Credit: Z Wang et al., National Institutes of Health, Bethesda, MD PHILADELPHIA - Research presented at the 2018 Annual Meeting of the Society of Nuclear...
Risk of autism increased in children of mothers with diabetes
Bottom Line: The risk of autism spectrum disorder (ASD) was increased in children of mothers with the three main types of diabetes that complicate pregnancy,...
New research on avian response to wildfires
As we enter another wildfire season in California, attention will turn to the inevitable fires and efforts to extinguish them. After these fires burn, land...
Coral reef scientist receives royal honor
Credit: Credit: ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies/ James Kerry The exemplary research of Distinguished Professor Terry Hughes, coral reef scientist and Director...
