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Researchers identify role of tumor-infiltrating B-cells in melanoma progression, resistance to therapy

In a multi-institutional collaborative study, scientists at The Wistar Institute and the Medical University of Vienna, Austria, have identified the role of tumor-infiltrating or tumor-associated B-cells ("TABs") in melanoma progression and resistance to targeted therapy.

20 Sep 2017

Crohn's & Colitis Foundation and Oxford University Press partner to publish Inflammatory Bowels Diseases journal

The Crohn's & Colitis Foundation and Oxford University Press announced today that they have entered into a new partnership to publish the Foundation's journal Inflammatory Bowels Diseases beginning in 2018.

20 Sep 2017

Study: 52-gene risk profile accurately predicts survival for patients with severe lung disease

An international Yale-led research team has shown that a risk profile based on 52 genes accurately predicts survival for patients with a severe lung disease. If confirmed in further studies, the finding could transform the way patients are treated for the condition, which is on the rise in older adults.

20 Sep 2017

Researchers develop new model to better simulate blood brain barrier for study of diseases

Scientists have helped provide a way to better understand how to enable drugs to enter the brain and how cancer cells make it past the blood brain barrier. The brain is protected by the near-impermeable blood brain barrier, a fortress which protects the brain but which also prevents the treatment of brain diseases, including brain tumors.

19 Sep 2017

New antibiotic development slowing - warns World Health Organization

According to a new report from the World Health Organization (WHO) released yesterday, antibiotics development at present is not at par with the rising antimicrobial resistance worldwide and soon the demand may outgrow the supply. The WHO warns that this could mean that pathogens causing these infections could mean a great threat for humans in the coming years.

19 Sep 2017

Common sense concerns over Nerf gun eye injuries from doctors

Thousands of children worldwide play with Nerf guns. Doctors are now concerned about the potential for these guns to harm the eyes and lead to serious eye injuries.

19 Sep 2017

PET imaging helps scientists to study progression of Zika virus infection in mice

For the first time, scientists have used Positron Emission Tomography imaging to study brain inflammation following Zika virus infection in mice, according to a study recently published online in the journal Molecular Imaging and Biology.

19 Sep 2017

Pregnant smokers more likely to quit if they learn to manage negative emotions, study shows

A new study by scientists in the University at Buffalo's Research Institute on Addictions has shown that pregnant smokers are more likely to quit if they can learn to manage negative emotions that lead to smoking.

19 Sep 2017

Workers exposed to dispersants during oil spill cleanup experience range of health symptoms

Workers who were likely exposed to dispersants while cleaning up the 2010 Deepwater Horizon oil spill experienced a range of health symptoms including cough and wheeze, and skin and eye irritation, according to scientists at the National Institutes of Health.

19 Sep 2017

Increase in physical activity boosts breast cancer survivors’ mental processing speed

It is estimated that up to 75 percent of breast cancer survivors experience problems with cognitive difficulties following treatments, perhaps lasting years. Currently, few science-based options are available to help.

19 Sep 2017

Research at KU to receive $2.3 million grant for studying motor deficits in ASD

While much research has been devoted to the social and communication issues that define autism spectrum disorders (ASD), much less is known about motor deficits that affect the majority of, if not all, individuals with ASD.

19 Sep 2017

UTSW receives $34 million CPRIT award for cancer research and faculty recruitment

The Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas has awarded UT Southwestern researchers more than $34 million for cancer research and faculty recruitment, including support for programs in pancreatic cancer, lung cancer, breast cancer, and melanoma.

19 Sep 2017

Experts delineate many steps hospitals can take to mitigate ransomware attacks

Especially cruel hackers know that lives are on the line when they hold a hospital's computer systems hostage, as they did in the May 12 attack dubbed WannaCry, which locked down many overseas hospitals with the demand for a ransom.

19 Sep 2017

Researchers identify potential gonorrhea vaccine candidates

Researchers at Oregon State University have identified a pair of proteins that show promise as the basis for a gonorrhea vaccine.

19 Sep 2017

Study overturns common belief about how proteins regulate formation of sensory interneurons

A recent study led by Samantha Butler at the Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research at UCLA has overturned a common belief about how a certain class of proteins in the spinal cord regulate the formation of nervous system cells -- called neurons -- during embryonic development.

19 Sep 2017

Sleep deprivation rapidly reduces depression symptoms in nearly half of depressed patients

Sleep deprivation -- typically administered in controlled, inpatient settings -- rapidly reduces symptoms of depression in roughly half of depression patients, according the first meta-analysis on the subject in nearly 30 years, from researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania.

19 Sep 2017

Last-ditch GOP effort to replace ACA: 5 things you need to know

Republican efforts in Congress to "repeal and replace" the federal Affordable Care Act are back from the dead. Again.

19 Sep 2017

Cholesterol-like molecules act as ‘cut-off’ switch for engine that powers cancer-killing cells

Scientists have just discovered how the engine that powers cancer-killing cells functions. Crucially, their research also highlights how that engine is fuelled and that cholesterol-like molecules, called oxysterols, act as a "cut-off" switch making it hard for our 'Natural Killer' cells to win the war against cancer.

19 Sep 2017

New man-made antioxidant could help improve success rates of cell-based therapies

Cell therapies being developed to treat a range of conditions could be improved by a chemical compound that aids their survival, research suggests.

19 Sep 2017

New research identifies way to convert white fat into brown fat in mice

There's good fat and bad fat in our bodies. The good fat helps burn calories, while the bad fat hoards calories, contributing to weight gain and obesity. Now, new research at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has identified a way to convert bad, white fat into good, brown fat, at least in mice.

19 Sep 2017

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Researchers identify role of tumor-infiltrating B-cells in melanoma progression, resistance to therapy

Crohn's & Colitis Foundation and Oxford University Press partner to publish Inflammatory Bowels Diseases journal

Study: 52-gene risk profile accurately predicts survival for patients with severe lung disease

Researchers develop new model to better simulate blood brain barrier for study of diseases

New antibiotic development slowing - warns World Health Organization

Common sense concerns over Nerf gun eye injuries from doctors

PET imaging helps scientists to study progression of Zika virus infection in mice

Pregnant smokers more likely to quit if they learn to manage negative emotions, study shows

Workers exposed to dispersants during oil spill cleanup experience range of health symptoms

Increase in physical activity boosts breast cancer survivors’ mental processing speed

Research at KU to receive $2.3 million grant for studying motor deficits in ASD

UTSW receives $34 million CPRIT award for cancer research and faculty recruitment

Experts delineate many steps hospitals can take to mitigate ransomware attacks

Researchers identify potential gonorrhea vaccine candidates

Study overturns common belief about how proteins regulate formation of sensory interneurons

Sleep deprivation rapidly reduces depression symptoms in nearly half of depressed patients

Last-ditch GOP effort to replace ACA: 5 things you need to know

Cholesterol-like molecules act as ‘cut-off’ switch for engine that powers cancer-killing cells

New man-made antioxidant could help improve success rates of cell-based therapies

New research identifies way to convert white fat into brown fat in mice

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