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Eikonoklastes Therapeutics announces closing of oversubscribed seed financing

Eikonoklastes Therapeutics, a preclinical stage biopharmaceutical company developing next-generation tissue factor (TF) immunotherapies for triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) and several other diseases with unmet clinical need, today announced closing of an oversubscribed seed financing.

23 Jul 2020

Journal Of Parkinson's Disease announces recipients of first Parkinson Prize

The Journal of Parkinson's Disease and its publisher IOS Press are proud to announce the two articles that have won the first Parkinson Prize, recognizing these outstanding contributions to the advancement to Parkinson's disease research.

23 Jul 2020

Trained service dogs are most helpful to veterans with PTSD

Science has shown that service dogs can benefit some veterans with PTSD. But the exact role service dogs play in the day-to-day lives of veterans - and the helpfulness of the tasks they perform - is less known.

23 Jul 2020

Mysterious enzyme inhibits inflammation in blood vessels, LJI study shows

Scrape your knee, and you'll see some red puffiness appear around the injury. This is inflammation, and it is driven by the immune system.

23 Jul 2020

Sweetened beverages can promote harmful alcohol consumption

It might be no surprise that sugar in sweetened coolers helps to mask the taste of alcohol and make it more appealing to novice consumers, including young people.

23 Jul 2020

siRNA-based treatment can reduce psoriasis symptoms

Psoriasis, a chronic skin condition that causes itchy, red, scaly patches, afflicts more than 8 million Americans and 125 million people worldwide.

23 Jul 2020

Research could lead to more efficient cellular immunotherapies for advanced cancers

Adoptive cell transfer immunotherapy is one of the most promising new treatments for people with hard-to-treat cancers.

23 Jul 2020

Researchers detect fluoroethers in blood of Wilmington residents

In a new paper detailing findings from North Carolina State University's GenX Exposure Study, researchers detected novel per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) called "fluoroethers" in blood from residents of Wilmington, North Carolina.

23 Jul 2020

Study: L-Grb2 has therapeutic efficacy in preclinical models of ovarian and uterine cancer

The cover for issue 29 of Oncotarget features, "In vivo effects of treatment with L-Grb2 in combination with anti-angiogenic therapy in an ovarian tumor model," by Lara, et al. which reported that adaptor proteins such as growth factor receptor-bound protein-2 play important roles in cancer cell signaling.

23 Jul 2020

Researchers assess the damage caused by microbubbles in brain injuries

Say there's a bomb attack on a military base. A few of the soldiers suffer concussions and other brain injuries. Could some of the injuries be caused by tiny bubbles that form and collapse within the skull during head trauma?

23 Jul 2020

NIH leaders create a framework to scale up testing technologies for COVID-19

In a paper in the New England Journal of Medicine, scientific leaders from the National Institutes of Health set forth a framework to increase significantly the number, quality and type of daily tests for detecting SARS-CoV-2, the virus that causes COVID-19, and help reduce inequities for underserved populations that have been disproportionally affected by the disease.

23 Jul 2020

C-Path gets positive response from FDA for drug-induced skeletal muscle injury safety biomarkers

Critical Path Institute announced today that the Biomarker Qualification Program at the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research in the U.S. Food and Drug Administration issued a positive response to the Letter of Intent developed by C-Path's Predictive Safety Testing Consortium and Duchenne Regulatory Science Consortium, for a panel of four safety biomarkers of acute drug-induced skeletal muscle injury.

23 Jul 2020

COVID-19: Older adults fared better emotionally than younger and middle-aged people

Adults aged 60 and up have fared better emotionally compared to younger adults (18-39) and middle-aged adults (40-59) amid the COVID-19 pandemic, according to new UBC research published recently in the Journal of Gerontology: Psychological Sciences.

23 Jul 2020

Study identifies common characteristics of pediatric vestibular schwannomas

Vestibular schwannomas, more commonly known as acoustic neuromas, are benign brain tumors that develop on the balance (vestibular) and hearing or auditory nerves leading from the inner ear to the brain.

23 Jul 2020

Reactivation of divergent signaling pathways can be leveraged to enhance cancer treatment

In order for cancer to form in the human body, normal cells must acquire multiple mutations before they develop toward the disease.

23 Jul 2020

Study shows antibodies drop sharply in first three months after mild COVID-19 cases

A study by UCLA researchers shows that in people with mild cases of COVID-19, antibodies against SARS-CoV-2 -- the virus that causes the disease -- drop sharply over the first three months after infection, decreasing by roughly half every 73 days.

23 Jul 2020

Access to food stamp program lowers repeat physician visits for medical care

In a new study, University of Colorado Denver researchers found when people have access to the food stamp program, they are less likely to frequent a physician for medical care.

23 Jul 2020

Amyloid plaques may act as trigger for Alzheimer's disease

The brains of people living with Alzheimer's are riddled with plaques: protein aggregates consisting mainly of amyloid-beta.

23 Jul 2020

Ashion Analytics and Elevation Oncology form innovative cancer treatment partnership

Ashion Analytics LLC today announced a partnership with Elevation Oncology, a clinical stage biopharmaceutical company, focused on the matching of patients with tumors harboring an NRG1 gene fusion identified using Ashion's proprietary GEM ExTra test with CRESTONE, a registration-directed Phase 2 study sponsored by Elevation Oncology.

23 Jul 2020

For-profit status of LTC homes is associated with more cases of COVID-19 outbreaks, deaths

For-profit status is associated with the extent of an outbreak of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) in long-term care (LTC) homes and the number of resident deaths from COVID-19, but not the likelihood of an outbreak, which was related to the infection rate in the surrounding local public health unit and the total number of beds in the home, found new research published in CMAJ (Canadian Medical Association Journal).

23 Jul 2020

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Eikonoklastes Therapeutics announces closing of oversubscribed seed financing

Journal Of Parkinson's Disease announces recipients of first Parkinson Prize

Trained service dogs are most helpful to veterans with PTSD

Mysterious enzyme inhibits inflammation in blood vessels, LJI study shows

Sweetened beverages can promote harmful alcohol consumption

siRNA-based treatment can reduce psoriasis symptoms

Research could lead to more efficient cellular immunotherapies for advanced cancers

Researchers detect fluoroethers in blood of Wilmington residents

Study: L-Grb2 has therapeutic efficacy in preclinical models of ovarian and uterine cancer

Researchers assess the damage caused by microbubbles in brain injuries

NIH leaders create a framework to scale up testing technologies for COVID-19

C-Path gets positive response from FDA for drug-induced skeletal muscle injury safety biomarkers

COVID-19: Older adults fared better emotionally than younger and middle-aged people

Study identifies common characteristics of pediatric vestibular schwannomas

Reactivation of divergent signaling pathways can be leveraged to enhance cancer treatment

Study shows antibodies drop sharply in first three months after mild COVID-19 cases

Access to food stamp program lowers repeat physician visits for medical care

Amyloid plaques may act as trigger for Alzheimer's disease

Ashion Analytics and Elevation Oncology form innovative cancer treatment partnership

For-profit status of LTC homes is associated with more cases of COVID-19 outbreaks, deaths

Advancing Motor Neuron Disease Diagnosis with Non-Invasive Ultrasound and AI

How agentic AI is reshaping laboratory workflows

Fourier 80: bringing benchtop NMR systems to the laboratory

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