Patient-partnered genomics study IDs immunotherapy as potential treatment for rare cancer
NEW YORK -- Angiosarcoma Project, a patient-partnered genomics study, identified immune checkpoint inhibition as a potential treatment option for patients ...
Month: September 2018
New cancer vaccine shows early promise for patients with HER2-positive cancers
NEW YORK -- Treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic HER2-positive cancers ...
New cancer vaccine shows early promise for patients with HER2-positive cancers
NEW YORK -- Treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic HER2-positive cancers ...
Bacterial therapy tolerable, shows early promise in patients with advanced solid tumors
NEW YORK -- A phase I clinical trial investigating the use of bacterial Clostridium novyi-NT spores as an injectable monotherapy ...
Bacterial therapy tolerable, shows early promise in patients with advanced solid tumors
NEW YORK -- A phase I clinical trial investigating the use of bacterial Clostridium novyi-NT spores as an injectable monotherapy ...
Cancer Immunotherapy Conference features latest research on response, resistance, treatment
NEW YORK -- The Fourth CRI-CIMT-EATI-AACR International Cancer Immunotherapy Conference: Translating Science into Survival, to be held in New York, ...
FAIR Health releases state-by-state visualizations of opioid abuse and dependence
Credit: FAIR Health NEW YORK, NY--October 1, 2018--FAIR Health has released an online interactive heat map at fairhealth.org/states-by-the-numbers/map showing new ...
EU countries unprepared to move future Alzheimer’s treatment into rapid clinical use
The health care systems in some European countries lack the capacity to rapidly move a disease-modifying treatment for Alzheimer's disease ...
Scientists use AI to develop better predictions of why children struggle at school
Scientists using machine learning - a type of artificial intelligence - with data from hundreds of children who struggle at ...
Unveiling the mechanism protecting replicated DNA from degradation
Credit: Takuya Abe Researchers from Tokyo Metropolitan University and the FIRC Institute of Molecular Oncology (IFOM) in Italy have succeeded ...
Patients 65 years of age or older with hip or spine fracture should be treated for osteoporosis
MONTRÉAL (29 September 2018)--A coalition of the world's top bone health experts, physicians, specialists, and patient advocacy groups today released ...
Physicist to use optical trapping methods to study basic properties of solid-state materials
Credit: Hemmerling lab, UC Riverside Boerge Hemmerling, an assistant professor of physics and astronomy at the University of California, Riverside, ...
AAAS announces new center to communicate scientific evidence on public issues
The American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) announces the launch of the Center for Scientific Evidence in Public ...
Quantum mechanics work lets oil industry know promise of recovery experiments
Credit: Sokrates Pantelides With their current approach, energy companies can extract about 35 percent of the oil in each well. ...
UCF selling experimental Martian dirt — $20 a kilogram, plus shipping
Credit: University of Central Florida The University of Central Florida is selling Martian dirt, $20 a kilogram plus shipping. This ...
How Sacred Ibis mummies provided the first test of evolution
Credit: Christiaan Kooyman, Wikimedia A debate over mummified birds brought to France after Napoleon's conquest of Egypt played a central ...
‘Bin chicken’ plays unique role in story of evolution
Credit: Creative Commons A University of Queensland researcher has uncovered how a French scientist and ibis researcher conducted the first ...
NASA finds Trami an organized, wide-eyed typhoon
Credit: Credit: NASA/NRL Visible imagery from NASA's Aqua satellite revealed Typhoon Trami was symmetrical and had a large eye on ...
NASA’s close up of Hurricane Rosa shows hint of an eye
Credit: NASA Worldview, Earth Observing System Data and Information System (EOSDIS) On Sept. 26 at 4:30 p.m. EDT (1630 UTC), ...
New bird flu viruses in ducks after vaccines largely prevented H7N9 in chickens
Credit: Chen et al. / Cell Host & Microbe 2018 In response to bird flu pandemics starting in 2013, officials ...
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Small NIH study reveals how immune response triggered by COVID-19 may damage the brain
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Scientists discover cancer trigger that could spur targeted drug therapies
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Researchers uncover life’s power generators in the Earth’s oldest groundwaters
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COVID-19 fattens up our body’s cells to fuel its viral takeover
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Study shows convalescent plasma doesn’t benefit severely ill patients hospitalized with COVID-19
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Do early therapies help very young children with or at high likelihood for autism?