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Study on Omicron related mortality in cancer patients during recent COVID wave

A recent pre-proof study published in the journal Cancer Cell assessed the CFR of cancer patients during the third wave of the coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic caused by the SARS-CoV-2 Omicron variant.

23 Feb 2022

Discovery of signaling pathway in immune cells may lead to new therapeutic approach for autoimmune diseases

Autoimmune diseases are triggered when the immune system malfunctions and attacks the body's own structures.

23 Feb 2022

Novel AI tool can spot difficult-to-diagnose cardiac conditions

Physician-scientists in the Smidt Heart Institute at Cedars-Sinai have created an artificial intelligence (AI) tool that can effectively identify and distinguish between two life-threatening heart conditions that are often easy to miss: hypertrophic cardiomyopathy and cardiac amyloidosis.

23 Feb 2022

Genetic mutation associated with perceived inadequate milk supply in mothers

Leading health care organizations recommend exclusive breastfeeding for six months after birth, yet some mothers report stopping due to a perceived lack of milk supply.

23 Feb 2022

Merkel cell carcinoma has a higher post-treatment recurrence rate than other skin cancers

Patients treated for Merkel cell carcinoma (MCC) face a five-year recurrence rate of 40% - markedly higher than the recurrence rates for melanoma and other skin cancers, according to research published today in JAMA Dermatology.

23 Feb 2022

New combination treatment strategy for managing metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer

A new drug, administered in combination with standard androgen-deprivation therapy and docetaxel chemotherapy, increased survival in patients with metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer, according to a trial published in The New England Journal of Medicine.

23 Feb 2022

Tissue engineering advance could one day help patients regrow bones

Researchers have used sound waves to turn stem cells into bone cells, in a tissue engineering advance that could one day help patients regrow bone lost to cancer or degenerative disease.

23 Feb 2022

Study demonstrates that TMPRSS2, which is key to SARS-CoV-2 cell entry, is a tumor suppressor

The role played by the host enzyme TMPRSS2 in infection and cancer is the focus of a new study.

23 Feb 2022

Why is it Important to Democratize Proteomics Data?

In this interview, we speak to Steve Kosteski from IsoPlexis about the importance of single-cell proteomics within the life sciences sector.

From Society for Laboratory Automation and Screening (SLAS) 23 Feb 2022

3D model of living brain cancer developed as a potential alternative for drug testing without animals

As a potential alternative for drug testing without lab animals, researchers at KTH Royal Institute of Technology developed and successfully tested a 3D model of living brain cancer that surmounts one of the biggest challenges in tissue engineering.

23 Feb 2022

Study investigates the prevalence risk of familial dilated cardiomyopathy

Idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy (DCM), the most common type of heart failure in the United States, was found to have a familial etiology in 30 percent of individuals diagnosed with DCM, and the overall risk for a family member of developing DCM was nearly 20 percent by the age of 80, according to a family-based, cross-sectional study published in JAMA.

22 Feb 2022

Gene therapy leads to durable transfusion independence in youngest patients with thalassemia

Over 90 percent of patients with transfusion-dependent thalassemia, an inherited blood disorder, no longer needed monthly blood transfusions years after receiving gene therapy, according to an international Phase 3 clinical trial that for the first time included children younger than 12 years of age.

22 Feb 2022

TGen and Deepcell collaborate to employ AI-based technology to classify and isolate diseased cells

The Translational Genomics Research Institute, an affiliate of City of Hope, is partnering with a Silicon Valley firm to become one of the first research institutes in the world to employ a new Artificial Intelligence-powered imaging and sorting technology to classify and isolate individual diseased cells.

22 Feb 2022

New studies highlight how e-cigarettes may be contributing to gum disease

A series of new studies by researchers at NYU College of Dentistry highlights how e-cigarettes alter oral health and may be contributing to gum disease.

22 Feb 2022

Many women experience confusion and distress after ductal carcinoma in situ diagnoses

Each year in the United States, nearly 50,000 women are diagnosed with ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS), a non-invasive breast condition that cannot spread.

22 Feb 2022

Novel platform can become a potential approach for personalized cancer treatments

Killing cancer cells without affecting surrounding normal cells is the most desirable approach for targeted cancer therapy. However, it cannot be easily achieved due to the similarities in the properties between normal and cancer cells.

22 Feb 2022

New method to develop nanoengineered bacteria for photothermal cancer immunotheranostics

There is substantial interest regarding the understanding and designing of nanoengineered bacteria to combat various fatal cancerous diseases.

22 Feb 2022

New approach for extensive screening of monoclonal antibody clones against multiple myeloma cells

Multiple myeloma (MM) is a largely incurable cancer of plasma cells with an extremely poor prognosis. However, investigators from Japan have recently found that a common component of amino acid transporters, CD98 heavy chain, represents an effective monoclonal antibody target in treating MM.

22 Feb 2022

Discovery could lead to new treatment approach for people with alcohol-associated liver disease

Investigators at Cedars-Sinai have uncovered a new pathway that helps explain how consuming too much alcohol causes damage to the liver, specifically mitochondrial dysfunction in alcohol-associated liver disease.

22 Feb 2022

Study shows link between women's lifetime exposure to sexual violence and high blood pressure

Women who had ever experienced sexual violence in their lifetime — including sexual assault and workplace sexual harassment — were more likely to develop high blood pressure over a seven-year follow-up period, according to findings from a large, longitudinal study of women in the United States.

22 Feb 2022

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

Study on Omicron related mortality in cancer patients during recent COVID wave

Discovery of signaling pathway in immune cells may lead to new therapeutic approach for autoimmune diseases

Novel AI tool can spot difficult-to-diagnose cardiac conditions

Genetic mutation associated with perceived inadequate milk supply in mothers

Merkel cell carcinoma has a higher post-treatment recurrence rate than other skin cancers

New combination treatment strategy for managing metastatic hormone-sensitive prostate cancer

Tissue engineering advance could one day help patients regrow bones

Study demonstrates that TMPRSS2, which is key to SARS-CoV-2 cell entry, is a tumor suppressor

Why is it Important to Democratize Proteomics Data?

3D model of living brain cancer developed as a potential alternative for drug testing without animals

Study investigates the prevalence risk of familial dilated cardiomyopathy

Gene therapy leads to durable transfusion independence in youngest patients with thalassemia

TGen and Deepcell collaborate to employ AI-based technology to classify and isolate diseased cells

New studies highlight how e-cigarettes may be contributing to gum disease

Many women experience confusion and distress after ductal carcinoma in situ diagnoses

Novel platform can become a potential approach for personalized cancer treatments

New method to develop nanoengineered bacteria for photothermal cancer immunotheranostics

New approach for extensive screening of monoclonal antibody clones against multiple myeloma cells

Discovery could lead to new treatment approach for people with alcohol-associated liver disease

Study shows link between women's lifetime exposure to sexual violence and high blood pressure

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