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Anti-androgen drugs may help disarm coronavirus spike protein, stop progression of COVID-19

Hormone drugs that reduce androgen levels may help disarm the coronavirus spike protein used to infect cells and stop the progression of severe COVID-19 disease, suggests a new preclinical study from researchers in the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania and published online in Cell Press's iScience.

22 Mar 2021

Male fertility and androgen production may be impacted by COVID-19

An interesting new study has appeared online in the journal Hormones that discusses the effects of COVID-19 on the male and female gonads.

22 Mar 2021

$11 million COBRE funding will help create Center for Pre-Clinical Cancer Research at LSU SVM

The Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, or LSU SVM, has received an $11 million grant to establish a Center of Biomedical Research Excellence, or COBRE.

19 Mar 2021

New approach to cancer immunotherapy may prevent autoimmunity

A team of researchers has found disrupting the interaction between cancer cells and certain immune cells is more effective at killing cancer cells than current immunotherapy treatments.

19 Mar 2021

Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy provides new opportunity to develop cancer cell and gene therapies

Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy wants to change the C-word from Cancer to Cure -- building on the life changing success of CAR-T therapies for blood cancers, the organization is now focused on the urgent need to translate this success into therapies to fight more types of cancer, such as solid tumor cancers.

19 Mar 2021

Study finds elevated heart disease risk in cancer survivors

A new study has found that about 35% of Americans with a cancer history had an elevated risk of cardiovascular disease in the next decade, compared with about 23% of those who didn't have cancer.

17 Mar 2021

Study: One in six men with advanced prostate cancer experiences reduced sense of smell and taste

One in six men being treated for advanced prostate cancer experiences a reduced sense of smell and taste, a symptom that could cause increased anxiety among patients because it is also a side effect of COVID-19, according to Tulane researchers.

16 Mar 2021

Cancer cells may dodge chemotherapy by going into 'active hibernation'

Cancer cells can dodge chemotherapy by entering a state that bears similarity to certain kinds of senescence, a type of "active hibernation" that enables them to weather the stress induced by aggressive treatments aimed at destroying them, according to a new study by scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine.

13 Mar 2021

Henry Ford Cancer Institute launches new initiative to improve minority participation in clinical trials

Henry Ford Cancer Institute is launching the Participatory Action for Access to Clinical Trials (PAACT) project to dramatically improve the representation of the African American community and other minorities in cancer clinical trials.

11 Mar 2021

Novel method can improve the detection of circulating tumor cells

Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) is the most prevalent form of lung cancer, accounting for more than 80 percent of all lung cancer cases.

10 Mar 2021

New approach can advance medical AI algorithms, reduce risks to patient privacy

Within the field of artificial intelligence (AI), deep learning is an area of rapid and high-impact innovation in the healthcare industry.

9 Mar 2021

Researchers establish organoid culture models from prostate tumor biopsies

Scientists at Urology Research Laboratory of the Department for BioMedical Research, University of Bern and Urology Department of the Inselspital of Bern, have established organoid culture models from prostate tumor biopsies.

8 Mar 2021

A sneak peek of the current state and future use of artificial intelligence in pathology

Artificial intelligence can already scan images of the eye to assess patients for diabetic retinopathy, a leading cause of vision loss, and find evidence of strokes on brain CT scans.

8 Mar 2021

Reduced ambulatory function in cancer survivors associated with increased risk of death

Bottom Line: Cancer survivors had a greater risk of reduced ambulatory function, which was associated with an increased risk of death.

4 Mar 2021

New initiative aims to increase prostate cancer screening in African Americans men

African American men in Cuyahoga County have a 60% increased risk of being diagnosed with prostate cancer and an 80% increased risk of dying from prostate cancer compared to white men, according to data from the Case Comprehensive Cancer Center.

2 Mar 2021

Scientists test the effect of natural product isolated from sea sponge on cancer cells

Scientists from Far Eastern Federal University together with Russian and German colleagues, continue studying antitumor compounds synthesized based on bioactive molecules isolated from a sea sponge.

1 Mar 2021

ACGT awards $500,000 to advance immunotherapy approach for treating solid tumors

A scientific team led by Brian Brown, PhD, Professor of Genetics and Genomic Sciences and Associate Director of the Precision Immunology Institute at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai (New York, New York), has been awarded $500,000 from Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy to advance a promising immunotherapy approach to fight lung cancer and other solid tumor cancers.

1 Mar 2021

Researchers review data related to high number of cancer deaths in China

The past century or so has seen unprecedented technological, scientific, and sociological evolution worldwide.

27 Feb 2021

New approach harnesses disease-causing proteins to combat cancer

Over many decades now, traditional drug discovery methods have steadily improved at keeping diseases at bay and cancer in remission. And for the most part, it's worked well.

26 Feb 2021

Renalytix AI and University of Utah announce partnership to improve kidney health

Renalytix AI plc, an artificial intelligence-enabled in vitro diagnostics company, and the University of Utah, one of the top research institutions in the United States, today announced a partnership to improve kidney health and reduce the risk of kidney failure for large scale populations in the earliest stages of kidney disease.

25 Feb 2021

Prostate News and Research

Anti-androgen drugs may help disarm coronavirus spike protein, stop progression of COVID-19

Male fertility and androgen production may be impacted by COVID-19

$11 million COBRE funding will help create Center for Pre-Clinical Cancer Research at LSU SVM

New approach to cancer immunotherapy may prevent autoimmunity

Alliance for Cancer Gene Therapy provides new opportunity to develop cancer cell and gene therapies

Study finds elevated heart disease risk in cancer survivors

Study: One in six men with advanced prostate cancer experiences reduced sense of smell and taste

Cancer cells may dodge chemotherapy by going into 'active hibernation'

Henry Ford Cancer Institute launches new initiative to improve minority participation in clinical trials

Novel method can improve the detection of circulating tumor cells

New approach can advance medical AI algorithms, reduce risks to patient privacy

Researchers establish organoid culture models from prostate tumor biopsies

A sneak peek of the current state and future use of artificial intelligence in pathology

Reduced ambulatory function in cancer survivors associated with increased risk of death

New initiative aims to increase prostate cancer screening in African Americans men

Scientists test the effect of natural product isolated from sea sponge on cancer cells

ACGT awards $500,000 to advance immunotherapy approach for treating solid tumors

Researchers review data related to high number of cancer deaths in China

New approach harnesses disease-causing proteins to combat cancer

Renalytix AI and University of Utah announce partnership to improve kidney health

What to know about prostate cancer eBook

Improving healthcare sustainability through carbon data

Managing vibration in IVF laboratories

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