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'Lab on a chip' technology may help find new treatments for NAFLD

Non-alcoholic fatty liver disease--the accumulation of liver fat in people who drink little or no alcohol--is increasingly common around the world, and in the United States, it affects between 30 and 40 percent of adults.

29 Aug 2019

Study gives insight into how immunotherapies may be delivered directly to brain tumors

A new study gives insight into how immunotherapies, treatments that help the body's immune system fight cancer, might one day be delivered directly to the brain in order to treat brain tumors.

29 Aug 2019

The Kavli Foundation gifts $3 million to support neuroscience research at Salk

The Salk Institute announced today that The Kavli Foundation has committed $3 million to support ongoing neuroscience research at Salk as part of the joint UCSD-Salk Kavli Institute for Brain and Mind.

29 Aug 2019

Adults with cerebral palsy twice as likely to develop cardiovascular, chronic respiratory diseases

Adults with cerebral palsy are about twice as likely to develop cardiovascular disease and chronic respiratory disease compared to adults without cerebral palsy, according to a new study led by RCSI (Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland) and Brunel University London.

29 Aug 2019

Scientists reveal the structure of a key protein in Epstein-Barr virus infection

Scientists at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine and the Molecular Biology Institute of Barcelona have published a study in the journal Nature Communications revealing the structure of a key protein, known as a portal, in Epstein-Barr virus infection.

29 Aug 2019

Study on national burden of HPV-associated oropharyngeal head and neck cancers in the U.S.

Over the last two decades, there has been a rise in head and neck cancers in the oropharynx, a region in the back of the throat that includes the tonsils and the base of the tongue.

29 Aug 2019

Mount Sinai researchers discover drug resistance signature in Crohn's disease

By mapping out more than 100,000 immune cells in patients with Crohn's disease, Mount Sinai researchers have discovered a signature of cells that are involved in a type of the disease that does not respond to treatment, according to a study published in Cell in August.

29 Aug 2019

Tanner Pharma Group delivers on “last mile” in global health

The Max Foundation, an international health organization dedicated to serving cancer patients, and Tanner Pharma Group, a global pharma services company specializing in access to critical medication, are committed partners in bringing thousands of patients around the globe daily access to cancer treatment.

From Tanner Pharma Group 29 Aug 2019

Tanner Pharma Group signs a distribution agreement for partner therapeutics’ product

Tanner Pharma Group, a global provider of integrated specialty access solutions, has announced the signing of a distribution agreement with Partner Therapeutics, Inc., an integrated biopharmaceutical company.

From Tanner Pharma Group 29 Aug 2019

Parasites could have originated from transmissable cancers

Researchers have presented a controversial new theory suggesting that transmissible cancers could eventually evolve into their own multicellular species.

29 Aug 2019

Researchers analyze people’s initial immune response to dengue fever

Researchers have come one step closer to understanding how our immune system responds to acute dengue fever, a disease that has affected hundreds of thousands of people in Southeast Asia this summer alone.

29 Aug 2019

Cancer cells ‘corrupt’ their healthy neighbors to support tumor growth

The healthy cells immediately surrounding a tumor become more stem cell-like and support cancer growth, reveals a new study published in Nature.

From The Francis Crick Institute 29 Aug 2019

[BC]2 conference focuses on use of big data in molecular medicine

From 9 to 11 September, the [BC]2 Basel Computational Biology Conference, organized by the SIB Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics, will bring together international and Swiss-based scientists working in this field, in one of the key bioinformatics events in Europe: a prime opportunity to hear from leading experts, from precision oncology to infectious diseases.

29 Aug 2019

KAIST researchers describe new mechanism that induces self-killing of cancer cells

Researchers have described a new mechanism which induces the self-killing of cancer cells by perturbing ion homeostasis. A research team from the Department of Biochemical Engineering has developed helical polypeptide potassium ionophores that lead to the onset of programmed cell death.

29 Aug 2019

A single cholesterol-derived molecule promotes adiposity

A single cholesterol-derived molecule, called 27-hydroxycholesterol (27HC), lurks inside your bloodstream and will increase your body fat, even if you don't eat a diet filled with red meat and fried food. That kind of diet, however, will increase the levels of 27HC and body weight.

29 Aug 2019

Investigational drug reduces stuttering symptoms in open-label pilot study

A team led by a psychiatrist at the University of California, Riverside, has tested the orally administered investigational medication ecopipam on adults who stutter in an open-label, uncontrolled clinical trial and found that it reduced their stuttering symptoms from the start of therapy after eight weeks of dosing.

28 Aug 2019

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

'Lab on a chip' technology may help find new treatments for NAFLD

Study gives insight into how immunotherapies may be delivered directly to brain tumors

The Kavli Foundation gifts $3 million to support neuroscience research at Salk

Adults with cerebral palsy twice as likely to develop cardiovascular, chronic respiratory diseases

Scientists reveal the structure of a key protein in Epstein-Barr virus infection

Study on national burden of HPV-associated oropharyngeal head and neck cancers in the U.S.

Mount Sinai researchers discover drug resistance signature in Crohn's disease

Tanner Pharma Group delivers on “last mile” in global health

Tanner Pharma Group signs a distribution agreement for partner therapeutics’ product

Parasites could have originated from transmissable cancers

Researchers analyze people’s initial immune response to dengue fever

Cancer cells ‘corrupt’ their healthy neighbors to support tumor growth

[BC]2 conference focuses on use of big data in molecular medicine

KAIST researchers describe new mechanism that induces self-killing of cancer cells

A single cholesterol-derived molecule promotes adiposity

Investigational drug reduces stuttering symptoms in open-label pilot study

Potential drug could revolutionize the treatment of neurological conditions

Depressive symptoms linked to increased disabilities, chronic health conditions among aging minorities

UTA receives CPRIT funding to support cancer research programs

Exposure to second-hand vaping aerosols rising among young people, survey finds

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