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Olympus Wins a 2021 Edison Award for Automated Cell Culture System

Olympus is proud to announce its OLYMPUS Provi™ CM20 incubation monitoring system won a Bronze Edison Award in the Cellular Research and Disease Prevention category for its innovative design that automates the cell culture workflow.

From Evident Corporation - Life Sciences 25 Jun 2021

Anti-inflammatory nanoparticles could be applied to the weakening muscles of DMD patients

Muscular dystrophies are a group of genetic diseases that lead to the progressive loss of muscle mass and function in patients, with the incurable Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD), which affects all the body's muscles primarily in boys, being particularly severe.

25 Jun 2021

FTO enzyme plays a key role in the deadly process of cancer metastasis

When cancers metastasize, cells from the primary tumor break away, travel through the blood or lymph system, and form new tumors in other body parts. Although metastasis are responsible for more than 90% of all cancer deaths, limited progress has been made in treating cancers that have spread.

25 Jun 2021

Remdesivir caused dangerously low heart rate in COVID-19 patients

After beginning treatment with remdesivir for COVID-19, a patient experienced significant bradycardia, or low heart rate. Her physicians used a dopamine infusion to stabilize her through the five-day course of remdesivir treatment, and her cardiac condition resolved itself at the end of the treatment.

25 Jun 2021

New resource could make targeted cancer therapies more accessible for Australian patients

A new resource developed at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and The Kinghorn Cancer Centre for oncologists could help make targeted cancer therapies more accessible for Australian patients.

25 Jun 2021

Study investigates difficulty swallowing in critically ill COVID-19 patients

Researchers from Clinica Luganese Moncucco and Bellinzona Regional Hospital in Switzerland investigated the prevalence of swelling disorders in severely ill COVID-19 patients and reported their results in a paper posted to the medRxiv* preprint server.

25 Jun 2021

New findings shed light on genetic changes that underlie rare, aggressive childhood cancer

A new study could lead to improved decision making in assigning treatments for children with the aggressive cancer rhabdomyosarcoma after revealing key genetic changes underlying development of the disease.

24 Jun 2021

New study revises current textbook knowledge about gastrulation

Scientists from Helmholtz Zentrum München revise the current textbook knowledge about gastrulation, the formation of the basic body plan during embryonic development. Their study in mice has implications for cell replacement strategies and cancer research.

24 Jun 2021

City of Hope researchers identify how breast cancer cells acquire resistant traits

City of Hope, a world-renowned cancer research and treatment center, has identified how cancer cells in patients with early-stage breast cancer change and become resistant to hormone or combination therapies, according to a new study published in Nature Cancer.

24 Jun 2021

New dietary fiber formulation improves the potency of cancer immunotherapies

Many people don't realize that the trillions of bacteria, viruses, and fungi residing within the gastrointestinal tract--collectively called the gut microbiome-- are connected to overall health, and specifically to cancer.

24 Jun 2021

FDA issues draft guidance encouraging rational expanded patient eligibility for oncology clinical trials

Today, the FDA issued a draft guidance encouraging industry to include patients with incurable cancers (when there is no potential for cure or for prolonged/near normal survival) in cancer clinical trials, regardless of whether they have received existing alternative treatment options.

24 Jun 2021

Long covid has reignited polarisation in approaches to treat chronic fatigue syndrome

Many long covid patients are experiencing extreme fatigue, a situation which has reignited the polarization in approaches to treatment and rehabilitation of chronic fatigue syndrome, according to a special report today.

24 Jun 2021

Researchers uncover new function of regulator protein in multiple myeloma development

A specific regulatory protein significantly influences the development of tumor-inducing blood vessels in the bone marrow of blood cancer patients.

24 Jun 2021

Researchers reanalyze COVID RECOVERY trial data on tocilizumab

A Bayesian analysis of the RECOVERY trial suggests the immunosuppressive drug tocilizumab can reduce deaths in hospitalized COVID-19 patients taking corticosteroids as well as patients on oxygen or non-invasive ventilation and likely increases hospital discharge rates. However, it is not clear if patients on invasive ventilation also benefit.

24 Jun 2021

New antibody conjugate delivers drugs to bone tumors and inhibits metastasis

Bone cancer is hard to treat and prone to metastasis. Research teams at Rice University and Baylor College of Medicine have a new strategy to attack it.

23 Jun 2021

Research suggests people living with HIV/AIDS may be less susceptible to SARS-CoV-2

Researchers in India have conducted a study showing that the seroprevalence of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) – the agent that causes coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) – was lower among people living with HIV and AIDS than among the general population.

23 Jun 2021

Tips of cancer survivors' tongues are less sensitive to tastes, study finds

Most survivors of squamous cell head and neck cancers report that their sense of taste is dulled, changed or lost during radiation treatment, causing them to lose interest in eating and diminishing their quality of life.

23 Jun 2021

Increasing novel lncRNA in cardiomyocytes can inhibit the progression of heart failure

A research collaboration based in Kumamoto University (Japan) has identified a novel lncRNA, Caren, that is abundantly expressed in cardiomyocytes.

23 Jun 2021

Three CU researchers recognized for contributions to immunotherapy in childhood cancer

Three members of the University of Colorado Cancer Center and a longstanding supporter of the campus are part of a group of more than 200 researchers nationwide who were recognized in April with the Team Science Award from the American Association for Cancer Research.

23 Jun 2021

Cedars-Sinai receives $11.99 million from CIRM to launch ALS clinical trial

Cedars-Sinai has been awarded $11.99 million by California's stem cell agency to launch a clinical trial testing a potential gene and stem cell therapy for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS).

23 Jun 2021

Therapy News and Research

Olympus Wins a 2021 Edison Award for Automated Cell Culture System

Anti-inflammatory nanoparticles could be applied to the weakening muscles of DMD patients

FTO enzyme plays a key role in the deadly process of cancer metastasis

Remdesivir caused dangerously low heart rate in COVID-19 patients

New resource could make targeted cancer therapies more accessible for Australian patients

Study investigates difficulty swallowing in critically ill COVID-19 patients

New findings shed light on genetic changes that underlie rare, aggressive childhood cancer

New study revises current textbook knowledge about gastrulation

City of Hope researchers identify how breast cancer cells acquire resistant traits

New dietary fiber formulation improves the potency of cancer immunotherapies

FDA issues draft guidance encouraging rational expanded patient eligibility for oncology clinical trials

Long covid has reignited polarisation in approaches to treat chronic fatigue syndrome

Researchers uncover new function of regulator protein in multiple myeloma development

Researchers reanalyze COVID RECOVERY trial data on tocilizumab

New antibody conjugate delivers drugs to bone tumors and inhibits metastasis

Research suggests people living with HIV/AIDS may be less susceptible to SARS-CoV-2

Tips of cancer survivors' tongues are less sensitive to tastes, study finds

Increasing novel lncRNA in cardiomyocytes can inhibit the progression of heart failure

Three CU researchers recognized for contributions to immunotherapy in childhood cancer

Cedars-Sinai receives $11.99 million from CIRM to launch ALS clinical trial

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