Breakthrough cancer treatment brings hope and challenges
The first gene therapy for cancer, approved by the Food Drug Administration in August, will transform the treatment of a particular kind of cancer in...
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NJIT device aimed at early detection of deadly diseases wins NJ Health Foundation backing
New Jersey Health Foundation (NJHF) has awarded NJIT engineer Eon Soo Lee a $50,000 Innovation Grant to develop a nanotechnology-enhanced biochip that would give doctors...
Unexpected findings uncover new understanding of gene expression
Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that the catalytic activity of the fly enzyme Trr and mammalian MLL3/MLL4 -- members of the COMPASS family of proteins...
UK researchers seek to identify ways to relieve post-chemotherapy cognitive impairment
LEXINGTON, Ky. (Sept. 29, 2017) -- Of the 14 million cancer survivors in the United States, a significant number experience a serious side effect called...
New system finds and targets vulnerabilities in lung cancer cells
Genetic changes that help lung cancer thrive also make it vulnerable to a promising experimental drug, according to a study led by researchers from Perlmutter...
Genetic test successfully detects some asymptomatic pancreatic cancers
PITTSBURGH, Oct. 2, 2017 - A genetic test developed at UPMC proved highly sensitive at determining which pancreatic cysts are most likely to be associated...
Family Medicine and Community Health Journal volume 5, issue number 2 publishes
Beijing, Sept. 21, 2017: The Summer 2017 issue, a special issue entitled "Primary care and cancer", Guest Editor: Li Li, includes an editorial, six original...
World’s first super-microsurgery operation with ‘robot hands’
Credit: Microsure MAASTRICHT, Oct. 2, 2017 - Plastic surgeons at Maastricht University Medical Center have used a robotic device to surgically treat lymphedema in a...
Ben-Gurion U. Developing new sensor with the ram group for earlier disease diagnosis
Ben-Gurion University Announces Collaboration With Ram Group to Develop a New Diagnostic Sensor for Earlier Diagnosis of Diseases BEER-SHEVA, Israel, Oct. 2, 2017 -- BGN,...
Doctors define ‘safe and effective’ margins for ‘one and done’ skin removal around suspicious moles
By carefully tracing a line of at least 2 millimeters outside of and around the edges of a mole that is suspected of being a...
By decoding how HPV causes cancer, researchers find a new potential treatment strategy
WASHINGTON -- A study that teases apart the biological mechanisms by which human papillomaviruses (HPV) cause cancer has found what researchers at Georgetown University Medical...
Liquid biopsies may help predict response to immune checkpoint inhibitors
Bottom Line: The number of alterations detected in the DNA collected from blood samples (liquid biopsies) of cancer patients treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors was...
DNA mutations shed in blood predicts response to immunotherapy in patients with cancer
In a first-of-its-kind study, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers report that a blood sample, or liquid biopsy, can reveal which patients...
An algorithm that explains how ants create and repair trail networks
Credit: Deborah Gordon Imagine you're a member of the Cephalotes goniodontus species, an arboreal ant with a Darth Vader-like head that has inspired humans to...
New UM faculty member lands $1.8 million grant to study intracellular bacteria that infect most insects
Credit: courtesy MISSOULA - A new University of Montana faculty member, Brandon Cooper, recently was awarded a five-year, $1.8 million Outstanding Investigator Award from the...
