Must mRNA Be Cloaked in a Lipid Coat to Serve as a Vaccine?
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Early Detection of Aggressive Multiple Myeloma Through Molecular Analysis
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Multiple myeloma is one of the most common forms of cancer of the immune cells in the bone marrow. It is considered incurable. Even when patients respond to treatment at first, the cancer comes back. To be able to intervene faster and on a more targeted basis, researchers at Charité – Universität…
Outsmarting Chemo-Resistant Ovarian Cancer
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CHICAGO --- Women diagnosed with ovarian cancer may initially respond well to chemotherapy, but the majority of them will develop resistance to treatment and die from the disease.Now Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered the Achilles…
Immune Response, Not Acute Viral Infections, Responsible for Neurological Damage, McMaster Researchers Discover
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For years, there has been a long-held belief that acute viral infections like Zika or COVID-19 are directly responsible for neurological damage, but researchers from McMaster University have now discovered that it’s the immune system’s response that is behi…
UT Southwestern Study Shows Glucagon Is Key for Kidney Health
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The image on the left shows a normal kidney; the image on the right shows a kidney lacking the glucagon receptor and displaying a high degree of scarring. Scarring is visualized with a collagen III antibody shown at 20x magnification. DALLAS – Feb. 22, 2024 – Glucagon, a hor…
Johnson & Johnson Announces Positive Results from Phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 Study of Carvykti to Treat Relapsed or Lenalidomide-Refractory Multiple Myeloma
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Johnson & Johnson announced positive results from a prespecified second interim analysis of the phase 3 CARTITUDE-4 study evaluating Carvykti (ciltacabtagene autoleucel; cilta-cel) compared to standard therapies of pomalidomide, bortezomib and dexamethasone (PVd) or daratumumab, pomalidomide and d…
Discovering a Key Quality-Control Mechanism in DNA Replication
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Illustration of the 55LCC complex courtesy of Cameron Baines (Phospho Biomedical Animation). PHILADELPHIA – When cells in the human body divide, they must first make accurate copies of their DNA. The DNA replication exercise is one of the most important processes in all living…
Study Shows Overlooked Lipid Is Connected to Ancient Cellular Pathway with Links to Cancer
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The scientists used AlphaFold 2 to simulate docking between a component of the hippo pathway and a cell membrane lipid. This image was included on the cover of Science Signaling. Credit: Brooke Emerling …
Researchers Are Using RNA in a New Approach to Fight HIV
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Society learned about the value of mRNA during the COVID-19 pandemic when we saw scientists and medical professionals harness its power to deliver a vaccine for the virus within a year. Now, University of Waterloo pharmacy associate professor Emmanuel Ho has developed a novel nanomedicine loaded wi…
Study Uncovers Novel Mechanisms Behind Food Allergies
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Credit: Mucosal Immunology (2023). DOI: 10.1016/j.mucimm.2023.12.001 A recent Northwestern Medicine study has shed light on the mechanisms of a specific protein that is necessary for the production of…