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Medical Xpress / Novel photodynamic therapy method can eradicate ocular melanoma, study shows
Researchers at the Optics and Photonics Research Center (CePOF) in Brazil and collaborators at the University of Toronto and Princess Margaret Cancer Center in Canada have reported for the first time the effective use of ...
Medical Xpress / Creating chimeroids by mixing stem cells from different donors to create multiple cell line organoids
A team of stem cell and regenerative biologists at Harvard University, working with a trio of colleagues from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, has created what they call chimeroids—function organoids with multiple ...
Medical Xpress / Text reminders about COVID-19 boosters are as effective as free rides, new study finds
In the first 10 months of availability, COVID-19 vaccines prevented around 235,000 deaths and 1.6 million hospitalizations in the U.S. However, by April 2023, 19% of Americans still hadn't received their first vaccine dose ...
Medical Xpress / Important step forward in stem cell therapy for rare bowel disease
A new study led by researchers at UCL and the University of Sheffield, has demonstrated the potential of stem cell therapy to treat those with Hirschsprung disease.
Medical Xpress / Understanding the mechanism behind melanoma resistance to treatment
In many cases of malignant melanoma, the effect of targeted treatment is lost over time. A research team from UZH and USZ has now discovered that a factor secreted by tumor cells is responsible for the resistance. These findings ...
Medical Xpress / Improving treatment for rare acute myeloid leukemia sub-type seen in young adults and children
Peter Mac clinicians have described how a young patient with a rare, aggressive and only recently described form of acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has responded to genomically-guided targeted therapy.
Medical Xpress / Two studies show mixed progress against eosinophilic esophagitis
Despite high hopes, a drug that wipes out the namesake cell type associated with the disease eosinophilic esophagitis (EoE) doesn't make patients feel better and doesn't reverse tissue damage in their throats.
Medical Xpress / Study defines the process of and defenses against cardiac valve calcification
The human body has sophisticated defenses against the deposition of calcium minerals that stiffen heart tissues, researchers at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and collaborators at UCLA Health and the University ...
Medical Xpress / Lactate shuttle in skeletal muscle impacts myofiber types and exercise activity
A research team led by Prof. Chen Yan and Prof. Yang Lifeng from the Shanghai Institute of Nutrition and Health of the Chinese Academy of Sciences revealed a physiological function of monocarboxylate transporter 1 (MCT1) ...
Medical Xpress / Study supports precision radiation therapy in lung cancer
Results from a new study led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center support standard use of the more precise intensity-modulated radiotherapy (IMRT) over the alternative 3D-conformal radiotherapy ...
Medical Xpress / Switching decisions: Interleukin-12 influences B cell immune response
B cells are known to generate antibodies through two different responses—an "emergency response" and an "everything is okay, let's prepare for the future response," says Mark Shlomchik, UPMC Professor and Distinguished ...
Medical Xpress / Researchers pioneer production of CAR T-cells using high-density microfluidic bioreactor
Researchers have developed a novel method capable of producing clinical doses of viable autologous chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cells in a ultra-small automated closed-system microfluidic chip, roughly the size of a ...