Tag Archives: Medicine / Health

[ad_1] Treatments that use the immune system to fight cancer have greatly improved outcomes for some people with cancer. Scientists are learning more about why some people respond so much better than others to these drugs. One major factor is something called tumor mutation burden (TMB) – the number of …

[ad_1] IMAGE: SMART AMR researchers Boon Chong Goh (left) and Linh Chi Dam (right) evaluate bacterial cells after treatment with lysine visualization More Credit: Wei Lin Lee, SMART AMR New method to customize lysines to specifically target unwanted bacteria while leaving others unharmed Lysines are enzymes that help open bacteria …

[ad_1] IMAGE: View of Evie Junior More Credit: UCLA Broad Stem Cell Research Center For Evie Junior, living with sickle cell anemia was like running a marathon. “But it’s a marathon where as you go, the trail gets steeper and then you lose your shoes,” the 27-year-old said. “It gets …

[ad_1] PHILADELPHIA – The labyrinth of muddled blood vessels in the tumor microenvironment remains one of the most difficult blocks for cell therapies to penetrate and treat solid tumors. Now, in a new study published online today in Nature Cancer, Penn Medicine The researchers found that combining chimeric antigen receptor …

[ad_1] Within each cell, thousands of different proteins form the machinery that keeps all living things, from humans and plants to microscopic bacteria, alive and well. Almost all diseases, including cancer, dementia, and even infectious diseases such as COVID-19, are related to how these proteins work. Because the function of …

[ad_1] OAK BROOK, Illinois – Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) researchers have developed a deep learning model that identifies imaging biomarkers on screening mammograms to predict a patient’s risk of developing breast cancer more accurately than with traditional tools risk assessment. The results of the study are presented at the annual …

[ad_1] BUFFALO, NY – Anyone who has undergone a nasal swab or saliva test for COVID-19 knows that the virus is more easily detected in the nose and mouth. That’s why, University of Buffalo researchers argue in a new paper, more COVID-19 studies should be devoted to how immunity to …

[ad_1] A new CAR T-cell therapy developed by UCL researchers and designed to target cancerous tumors has shown promise in early children with neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. For this proof-of-principle study, researchers at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute for Child Health (GOS ICH) and UCL Cancer Institute …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Researcher Hong-Jun Cho is the first author of the study. View More Credit: Photo courtesy of Hong-Jun Cho CHAMPAIGN, Illinois – A proof-of-concept study conducted in a mouse model of Alzheimer’s disease offers new evidence that copper isotopes can be used to detect beta-amyloid protein deposits that form …

[ad_1] IMAGE: Experimental setup. View More Credit: Tsukuba University Tsukuba, Japan – Researchers from Tsukuba University’s Faculty of Health and Sports Sciences studied how blind and blind players monitored an incoming noisy ball. They found that blind players employed more head downward rotation when trapping the rolling ball, compared to …