COVID-19 Patient With Acute Respiratory Distress Cured by Cancer Drug
Team at Marburg University Medical Center plans scientific study on the use of an immune inhibitor against the viral disease. Although the spreading SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus…
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MIT Engineers Design Nanoparticles That Stimulate the Immune System to Attack Cancer Tumors
A Boost for Cancer Immunotherapy One promising strategy to treat cancer is stimulating the body’s own immune system to attack tumors. However, tumors are very…
Multinational Consortium Reports “Encouraging News” for Some Cancer Patients With COVID-19
People with cancer sickened by COVID-19 have a crude death rate of 13%, according to the largest series of data released thus far from a…
Case Study: COVID-19 Treatment in a Patient With Blood Cancer
Tocilizumab shows promise in addressing COVID-19 symptoms for people with blood cancers. A case study of a patient in Wuhan, China, suggests that the immunosuppressant…
Blood Test Accurately Detects Over 50 Types of Cancer and Where It Originated, Often Before Any Symptoms
Researchers have developed the first blood test that can accurately detect more than 50 types of cancer and identify in which tissue the cancer originated,…
New Anticancer Therapy Prospects After “Brake” on Immune Activity Identified
The immune system is like a carefully regulated machine, complete with its own built-in “brakes” that prevent it from overreacting and causing excess inflammation in…
Ultra-Sensitive Cancer DNA Detector Created With Crumpled Graphene
Graphene-based biosensors could usher in an era of liquid biopsy, detecting DNA cancer markers circulating in a patient’s blood or serum. But current designs need…
Melanoma Skin Cancer Killing Fewer Americans Due to Advances in Treatment
Advances in treatment have led to the largest yearly declines in deaths due to melanoma ever recorded for this skin cancer, results of a new…
Researchers Surprised That Gut Bacteria Penetrates Tumors – Improves Cancer Therapy
Researchers at the University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center and University of Chicago have discovered that bacteria that usually live in the gut can accumulate…
New Repair Mechanism for Alcohol-Induced DNA Damage Discovered
Researchers of the Hubrecht Institute (KNAW) in Utrecht, The Netherlands, and the MRC Laboratory of Molecular Biology in Cambridge, United Kingdom, have discovered a new…
Scorpion Venom Used to Direct T Cells to Target Brain Cancer Tumors
The research published today, and scorpion venom will also be key component of CAR T cell therapy for glioblastoma in newly opened City of Hope…
The World Faces an Air Pollution ‘Pandemic’ – Far Greater Scale Than Wars, Smoking, Malaria
Researchers say people’s lives are shortened by an average of nearly three years from different sources of air pollution. Air pollution is responsible for shortening…
Warning: Printer Toner Linked to Genetic Changes, Dangerous Health Risks
Getting printer toner on your hands is annoying. Getting it in your lungs may be dangerous. According to a new study by West Virginia University researcher…
In Fight Against the Deadliest Cancer, Scientists Have a Strange Ally – The Foot-and-Mouth-Disease Virus
The foot-and-mouth-disease virus is helping scientists to tackle a common cancer with the worst survival rate — pancreatic cancer. Researchers at Queen Mary University of…
Cervical Cancer Could Be Eliminated in the US Within Two Decades
Scaling up cervical cancer screening coverage in the U.S. to 90% could expedite elimination of the disease and avert more than 1,000 additional cases per…
Experts Warn: Skin Cancer Diagnosis Apps Are Unreliable and Poorly Regulated
Smartphone apps not accurate enough to spot all skin cancers and current regulations do not provide adequate protection to the public, warn experts. Smartphone apps…
Massive Genetic Map of Cancer Mutations Cataloged – Available to Doctors and Researchers Worldwide
Mutations in 38 different types of cancer have been mapped by means of whole genome analysis by an international team of researchers from, amongst others,…
New Study Makes Clear: Meat Isn’t Good for You
Eating Red Meat and Processed Meat Hikes Heart Disease, Death Risk Eating red meat, processed meat or poultry raises risk of cardiovascular disease Eating meat…