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Engineered T Cell Therapy Keeps Leukemia Patients In Remission

Nine of twelve leukemia patients who received infusions of their own T cells after the cells had been genetically engineered to attack the patients' tumors…

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Second-Hand Smoke Linked to Higher Meningococcal Disease Risk

Invasive meningococcal disease, a major cause of bacterial meningitis, can also cause severe illness when bacteria, such as Neisseria meningitidi, invade the…

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New Drug Halves Deadly Side Effect Risk in Bone Marrow Transplants

A new class of drugs reduced the risk of patients contracting a serious and often deadly side effect of lifesaving bone marrow transplant treatments, according…

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Hope for Hard-to-Treat Blood Disorders: New Therapeutic Agents

Ongoing discoveries of critical molecular markers, pathways, and other drivers of some of the most difficult-to-treat forms of blood cancer have provided…

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Neuroscientists prove ultrasound can be tweaked to stimulate different sensations

A century after the world's first ultrasonic detection device – invented in response to the sinking of the Titanic – Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute…

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Cocktail boosts immune cells in fighting cancer

Natural killer cells (or NK cells) are considered to be particularly suitable weapons against cancer. They are part of the innate immune system and respond to…

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New Mechanism Found to Help Reduce Obesity Risks

But an international team of scientists led by Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center researcher Andrew Larner, M.D., Ph.D., has successfully…

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Nordic Nations Unite to Tackle Rising Tick-Borne Infections

“Since the countries within the region share this problem, we can work more closely together to draw up joint guidelines for reporting, diagnosis, treatment…

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Viable Hearts for Transplant: Stress Echo Unlocks New Options

Hearts previously rejected due to donors' age or other risk factors can now be declared viable for transplantation using pharmacological stress echo, according…

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Mu-rhythm in the brain: The neural mechanism of speech as an audio-vocal perception-action system

Speech production is one of the most important components in human communication. However, the cortical mechanisms governing speech are not well understood…

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Study Shows BPA Exposure in Fetal Livers

Researchers also found a proportionately higher concentration of free BPA—as opposed to the conjugated forms modified by the body for elimination—further…

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Snoring Solutions: Prevent Heart Issues Linked to Sleep Apnea

Patients with obstructive sleep apnea have the same early cardiovascular damage as diabetics, according to research presented at EUROECHO and other Imaging…

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5 Key Advances in Treating Lung Disease in Infants

“BPD is a lung disease described 45 years ago in which we have made zero progress. And now, with these cord-derived stem cells there is a true potential for a…

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Crucial step in AIDS virus maturation simulated for first time

Bioinformaticians at IMIM (Hospital del Mar Medical Research Institute) and UPF (Pompeu Fabra University) have used molecular simulation techniques to explain…

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Novel Studies of Gene Regulation in Brain Development May Mean New Treatment of Mental Disorders

In the paper, published November 22 as an online-first publication in the journal Genes, Brain and Behavior, the researchers identified the hierarchical tree…

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Teen Smoking Reduces Bone Growth in Girls, Raises Osteoporosis Risk

In a study published Dec. 4, researchers at Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report the data can be useful for developing strategies to help…

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