Neuroimmune Interactions May Help Explain Inflammatory Pain, Lead to Better Treatments
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Pain-sensing neurons are stained green and red to show activity under a microscope. Credit: Tao Deng/NCATS Stem Cell Translation Laboratory/NIH Researchers have just taken the most fine-grained look t…
Engineering a Heart Conduit: New $2M NIH Grant for Yale Research
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One out of 1,000 infants is born with just one functional heart ventricle instead of two, making it hard for oxygenated blood to pump effectively throughout their bodies. Today, babies with this condition (single ventricle congenital heart defects, or SVCHDs) typically undergo a heart surgery calle…
Revolutionary Nanodrones Enable Targeted Cancer Treatment
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Biomarkers Identified for Successful Treatment of Bone Marrow Tumors
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CAR T cell therapy has proven effective in treating various haematological cancers. However, not all patients respond equally well to treatment. In a recent clinical study, researchers from the University of Leipzig Medical Center and the Fraunhofer Institu…
The Use of New Technologies Expands Understanding of Brain Tumors in Children
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A study conducted by researchers from the D'Or Institute for Research and Education (IDOR) and the Rede D'Or Pathological Anatomy in conjunction with several North American institutions, including the National Cancer Institute (NIH), used new molecular anal…
Using Cancer’s Strength to Fight Against It
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Scientists at the UC San Francisco (UCSF) and Northwestern Medicine may have found a way around the limitations of engineered T cells by borrowing a few tricks from cancer itself.By studying mutations in malignant T cells that cause lymphoma, they zeroed in on one that impa…
Scientists Grow 'Mini Kidneys,' Revealing New Insights Into Metabolic Defects and Potential Therapy for Polycystic Kidney Disease
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Scientists at Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) have successfully grown 'mini kidneys' in the lab and grafted them into live mice, revealing new insights into the metabolic defects and a potential therapy for polycystic kidney disease. 'Mini kidneys,' or kidney org…
Experimental Strategy Is the First to Tackle Fibrosis and Scarring at the Cellular Level
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Peptide inhibitors bringing about collagen (shown in green) retention inside cells. Credit: Ishier Raote/Centro de Regulación Genómica Researchers at the Center for Genomic Regulation in Barcelona and…
New Findings on the Immune System
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Cancer Immunotherapy Used to Treat Asthma
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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are a form of immunotherapy in which T cells, a type of immune cell, is engineered to recognize and target the tumor. T cells are responsible for killing or lysing infections in a healthy immune system. Unfortunately, in t…