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, better enabling it to fight...
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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 treatment response in a patient...
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 a five-year survival rate of...
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 of anti-OX40 and resulted in...
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 between wildfires and a warm...
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 and Technology, at the University...
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 ARC Centre of Excellence for...
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 into action following bone marrow...
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 electric vehicles that are growing...
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 gas into the Gulf of...
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 Engineering undergraduates earned the top...
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, is facing new risks from...
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 sNuc-Seq. This system enabled researchers...
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 part to a type of...
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 Veterans Administration Medical Center report...
