You’ve Got Some Nerve
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Newswise — Researchers at the University of Michigan Rogel Cancer Center and the School of Dentistry identified a new metric to articulate the relationship between nerve density and oral cancer. The study, published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Rese…
A Potential New Weapon in the War Against Superbugs
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University of Melbourne researchers are finding ways to beat dangerous superbugs with 'resistance resistant' antibiotics, and it could help in our fight against coronavirus (COVID-19) complications. As bacteria evolve, they develop strategies that undermine antibiotics and morph into 'super…
Gracell Biotechnologies Initiates Investigational Study Evaluating GC012F for Treatment of Refractory Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE)
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Gracell announces start of investigator-initiated trial to expand clinical evaluation of FasTCAR-T GC012F into autoimmune diseaseGC012F pioneers the use of CD19/BCMA dual-targeting CAR-T in SLE, aiming for deeper and wider depletion of autoantibodies producing B-cells and plasma cells SAN DI…
National Study Recommends Starting SARS-CoV-2 mRNA Vaccination Three Months After Bone Marrow Transplant
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Credit: Pixabay/CC0 Public Domain Patients with cancer whose immune systems are being supported or rebuilt by bone marrow transplantation should begin receiving vaccines for protection against SARS-C…
Head & Neck Cancer Organoids as a Step Towards Personalized Treatments
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Clinical implications Some of the discoveries made by the team could have implications for HNC patients in the near future. For example, they showed that the drug cetuximab made the tumor organoids less sensitive to radiotherapy. Driehuis explains: “This is surprising, because the combinat…
Man Who Defied Genetics for Decades May Hold a Clue to Preventing Alzheimer’s, Scientists Say
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CNN — Researchers working to unlock the secrets of Alzheimer’s disease say they’ve been given a major clue that could help protect people at risk for this type of dementia. A man who seemed fated to develop memory loss i…
Autoimmune Diseases Are on the Rise in Women — Here's What to Look Out for & How You Might Treat Them
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When your immune system is healthy, it’s like having a personal ninja warrior at your disposal. This ninja is focused on one specific mission: to protect your body from threats such as germs, unhealthy changes in cells, and harmful foreign substances. In some people, though, the immune system becom…
New FRAXplus® (Beta version) Illustrates Potential of Refined Risk Factor Information Entered to the World’s Most Widely Used Fracture Risk Assessment Tool
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A new, user-friendly platform for the freely available online FRAX® calculator now hosts the beta version of FRAXplus®, an optional extra that illustrates how fragility fracture risk probabilities can be modified for recency of prior fracture, exposure to higher dose oral glucocorticoids, duration …
Organoids Derived from Patient Tissues Support Personalized Cancer Treatment
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Chicago (May 2, 2023) — Researchers created organoids from cancer cells to reduce the need for trial and error in identifying effective cancer treatments in one of many cancer studies scheduled for presentation this week at Digestive Disease Week® (DDW) 202…
The Endocrine Cmmunity Joins Forces on European Hormone Day to Raise Awareness of Vital Role of Hormones in Preventing & Treating Rare & Chronic Diseases
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