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LUGANO-MADRID, 10 September, 2017 - Mature results from the KEYNOTE-045 trial to be presented today at the ESMO 2017 Congress ...

Proteins keep a grip on cells

Credit: Osaka University (Osaka, Japan) While you are what you eat, cells are what they touch. The cells with which ...

Scientists construct first predictive model of inflammatory bowel disease

STAMFORD, Conn. & NEW YORK, NY -- September 11, 2017 -- Scientists at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount ...

Airline industry could fly thousands of miles on biofuel from a new promising feedstock

Credit: Claire Benjamin/University of Illinois A Boeing 747 burns one gallon of jet fuel each second. A recent analysis from ...

Key process to be modernized in production of life-saving drugs, food preservation

Credit: (Purdue University image/Erin Easterling) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - A consortium of experts is working to modernize a process that ...

Body’s own defense against ALS actually drives disease progression at later stages

Credit: Tom Maniatis/Columbia University's Zuckerman Institute NEW YORK -- Columbia scientists have discovered that one of the body's natural defenses ...

Ambry Genetics & NorthShore University HealthSystem partner to advance precision medicine

Credit: Jonathan Hillenbrand Aliso Viejo, CA and Evanston, IL (September 12, 2017): Ambry Genetics (Ambry), a leading clinical genetics-testing lab, ...

Study identifies factors that limit work ability of young adult cancer survivors

September 9, 2017

LUGANO-MADRID, 9 September 2017 - Factors that limit the work ability of young adult cancer survivors are reported today at ...

Rucaparib boosts progression-free survival in BRCA mutant recurrent ovarian cancer

LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Rucaparib maintenance therapy increases progression-free survival in BRCA mutant recurrent ovarian cancer by 77%, according ...

Patients with high risk prostate cancer may benefit ‘equally’ from two new treatments

LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Patients with high risk prostate cancer starting long-term hormone therapy may benefit from two new ...

Pembrolizumab: promising response rate in pretreated metastatic gastric cancer

LUGANO-MADRID, 8 September, 2017 - Pembrolizumab has shown a promising response rate in patients with pretreated metastatic gastric cancer, according ...

How to draw electricity from the bloodstream

Men build dams and huge turbines to turn the energy of waterfalls and tides into electricity. To produce hydropower on ...

Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost by disabling specific T cells

New York, NY (September 7, 2017)--Cancer immunotherapy drugs only work for a minority of patients, but a generic drug now ...

Link established between a molecular driver of melanoma & novel therapeutic agent

PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 7, 2017) -- Results of a study by The Wistar Institute have described a correlation between a ...

Healthy aging: New EU project on the human liver

Credit: Photo: Bielefeld University The goal is to find out how medical drugs affect the liver and how the organ ...

Unraveling the ocean’s secrets

In the absence of carbon, life on Earth cannot exist. Yet much of how this fundamental element circulates throughout the ...

Blood tumor markers may warn when lung cancer patients are progressing

September 6, 2017

Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center For many years, oncologists have known that cancers can secrete complex molecules into the ...

Radiation Oncology Institute’s publication awards honor radiation oncology research

September 6, 2017

ARLINGTON, Va., September 6, 2017 - The Radiation Oncology Institute (ROI) announced today the winners of its inaugural publication awards, ...

Some stroke survivors may have underlying cancer