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Medical Xpress / New immune mechanism helps explain why ovarian cancer stops responding to chemotherapy
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have identified a new mechanism behind the chemotherapy resistance that makes ovarian cancer so lethal. In a new study published in The Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer, the researchers ...
Medical Xpress / Mass-producible immune cells kill patient-derived colorectal tumors in mice
Off-the-shelf and mass-producible immune cells fight solid human tumors engrafted in mice. The Kobe University development is a significant contribution toward faster, cheaper cancer immunotherapy.
Medical Xpress / Study reveals how networks of switches in DNA, which regulate gene expression, drive cancer growth
Enhancers are pieces of DNA that act like switches, regulating when genes are turned on and off and how strongly they are activated. Scientists know these switches play a critical role in cancer and other diseases, but they ...
Medical Xpress / Imaging platform captures electrical activity from nearly 200 neurons deep in living brain tissue
The brain is a vast, densely interconnected network of neurons computing in parallel. Watching these computations unfold in real time could reveal how the brain processes sensation and guides behavior. But the electrical ...
Medical Xpress / Exceptional memory in 80s defies simple Alzheimer's genetic risk explanation
Many people assume that some memory decline is an inevitable consequence of getting older. But a select group of older adults, known as "SuperAgers," reach their 80s and 90s while retaining memory performance as good as or ...
Medical Xpress / Natural compounds against sarcoma: Which one shows the greatest potential?
Curcumin, berberine and other plant-derived compounds have long attracted scientific interest because of their anti-inflammatory and anticancer properties. A new study by researchers from Wroclaw Medical University and the ...
Medical Xpress / Gut immune cells may help explain how B-cell depletion controls MS
B-cell depletion therapies, in which B cells of the immune system that may drive disease activity in multiple sclerosis (MS) are temporarily removed, have contributed significantly to improved treatment for patients in recent ...
Medical Xpress / How a pandemic detour helped researchers uncover clues to a mysterious disease
When the COVID-19 pandemic shut down international travel in 2020, Michigan State University researcher Eric Benbow faced a problem. A $2.5 million research project designed to study an environmental pathogen in South America ...
Medical Xpress / New tool uncovers overlooked disease-linked genes by accounting for ancestry and family ties
Every person's DNA tells a unique story. To unlock the full potential of genetic research, scientists need tools that reflect the complexity of the people they study.
Medical Xpress / Exercise improves hip arthritis pain and function, but gains may be too small
Exercise finds improvements in pain and function may fall short of what patients would notice in daily life, but more studies are needed to make firm conclusions, a new publication in Cochrane Database of Systematic Reviews ...
Medical Xpress / GLP-1 diabetes drugs linked to up to 68% higher hair loss risk
The use of glucagon-like peptide-1 (GLP-1) receptor agonists to treat type 2 diabetes and obesity is associated with an increased risk of hair loss (alopecia) in adults with type 2 diabetes, a study published by The BMJ finds. ...
Medical Xpress / Human study links reduced inflammation to later myopia onset
University of Oklahoma College of Medicine researcher Jody Summers, Ph.D., has long hypothesized that inflammation plays a role in the development of myopia, or nearsightedness, in which close-up vision is clear but distance ...
