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New Cancer Target for Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma
Promising results have led to the design of a clinical trial that will soon be under way to test a compound -- called PU-H71 -- in human patients. This compound is in a new class of drugs, called heat...
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Read moreNew cancer target for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma
Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer ...
Life Sciences | Read moreWorld's first delivery of intra-arterial Avastin directly into brain tumor
Neurosurgeons from NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center performed the world's first intra-arterial cerebral infusion of Avastin (bevacizumab) directly into a patient's ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreResearchers Develop Novel Cancer Detection Method
The group's paper, "Towards Nonspecific Detection of Malignant Cervical Cells with Fluorescent Silica Beads," is published in Small (Volume 5 Issue 20, Pages 2,277 - 2,284).Meth...
Health and Medicine | Read moreNew genetic link between cardiac arrhythmias and thyroid dysfunction identified
Genes previously known to be essential to the coordinated, rhythmic electrical activity of cardiac muscle -- a healthy heartbeat -- have now also been found to play a key role in thyroid hormone (TH) ...
Life Sciences | Read moreWeill Cornell Researchers Discover New Anti-Tuberculosis (TB) Compounds
Attempts to eradicate tuberculosis (TB) are stymied by the fact that the disease-causing bacteria have a sophisticated mechanism for surviving dormant in infected cells. Now, a team of scienti...
Life Sciences | Read moreEven in a safety net health system, colorectal cancer screening disparities remain
Colorectal cancer is the second leading cause of cancer death in the United States behind lung cancer. Nearly 50,000 Americans will die from colorectal cancer this year. Although scientists have diffe...
Health and Medicine | Read moreAn HIV-blocking gel for women
University of Utah scientists developed a new kind of "molecular condom" to protect women from AIDS in Africa and other impoverished areas. Before sex, women would insert a vaginal gel that ...
Health and Medicine | Read moreGenetic Testing May Be Valuable in Treating Colorectal Cancer
For the 29,000 patients in the United States with metastatic colorectal cancer, chemotherapy with irinotecan is a standard treatment that has been shown to improve survival. But for more than ...
Life Sciences | Read moreNEJM study finds drug-eluting stents more effective than bare-metal stents in heart attack patients
NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital and Columbia University Medical Center, together with the Cardiovascular Research Foundation (CRF), announced that its landmark study comparing the safety and efficacy of...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreGenetic Secrets of Date Palm Unlocked
"We have generated a draft DNA sequence and initial assembly of the date palm using the most advanced technology," says Joel Malek, director of the Genomics Laboratory at Weill Cornell Medic...
Life Sciences | Read morePolyU makes great strides in developing cancer drugs
The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU) has achieved further breakthrough in developing cancer drugs through making use of advanced biotechnology. This breakthrough not only gives a ray of hope f...
Life Sciences | Read moreSwedish study reveals sharp increase in HPV-positive tonsil cancer
The results of the study, which mainly cover the Swedish capital of Stockholm, show that this increase is directly linked to the human papillomavirus (HPV)."The number of cases of tonsill...
Studies and Analyses | Read moreNew Test May Predict Breast Cancer Metastasis
Researchers at NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center have identified a new marker for breast cancer metastasis called TMEM, for Tumor Microenvironment of Metastasis.As rep...
Life Sciences | Read morePitt vaccine to prevent colon cancer being tested in patients
If shown to be effective, it might spare patients the risk and inconvenience of repeated invasive surveillance tests, such as colonoscopy, that are now necessary to spot and remove precancerous polyps...
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