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First targeted nanomedicine to enter human clinical studies
A multidisciplinary team from Brigham and Women’s Hospital (BWH), Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI), Harvard Medical School (HMS), Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), BIND Biosciences, Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), Wayne State University Karmanos Cancer Institute, and Weill Cornell Medical College have found promising effects of a first-in-class targeted cancer drug, [...]
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Warning”: drug diversion by a health care worker can spread hepatitis C
Findings of an extensive investigation at Mayo Clinic, Health Care–Associated Hepatitis C Virus Infections Attributed to Narcotic Diversion, serve as a warning to other health care institutions that drug diversion by a health care worker can spread hepatitis C, a potentially fatal viral infection, to patients.
The report, published in [...]
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Trials show promise of human virus to treat head and neck cancer patients
A naturally-occurring harmless human virus may be able to boost the effectiveness of two standard chemotherapy drugs in some cancer patients, according to early stage trial data published today in Clinical Cancer Research Phase I/II Trial of Carboplatin and Paclitaxel Chemotherapy in Combination with Intravenous Oncolytic Reovirus in Patients [...]
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New immune defense enzyme discovered, could provide a new target for the treatment of diseases
Neutrophil granulocytes comprise important defenses for the immune system. When pathogenic bacteria penetrate the body, they are the first on the scene to mobilize other immune cells via signal molecules, thereby containing the risk. To this end, they release serine proteases – enzymes that cut up other proteins to activate [...]
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Scripps receives $1 million for Hepatitis C Treatment Discovery
NIH has awarded Scripps Florida scientists just over $1 million for a three-year study to develop new high-throughput screening tests to find compounds that disable a protein essential to hepatitis C virus (HCV) replication.
Hepatitis C is a slow-progressing disease that causes inflammation of the liver and [...]
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5 Ways We Screw Ourselves Up
When someone uses the word ‘relationship’ we automatically assume there is another person involved. Relationships are simply connections. One of the most ignored and abused relationships people maintain is their relationship with themselves. How do you feel about you? How do you treat yourself? Are you too easy or too [...]
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New study supports importance of structural variation in autism spectrum disorder
Research out of the Hussman Institute for Human Genomics at the University of Miami Miller School of Medicine supports the importance of structural variation in autism spectrum disorder (ASD). This unique study, by led by Margaret A. Pericak-Vance, Ph.D., John R. Gilbert, Ph.D., and Dale Hedges, Ph.D., used high-resolution arrays [...]
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Aging-related memory loss may not be permanent, if I remember correctly…
Scientists from… let me find those notes… Scripps! yeah, Scripps Florida scientists have shown in animal models that the loss of memory that comes with aging is not necessarily… uh… wait a second… a permanent thing. Yeah, that’s it…. Aging Impairs Intermediate-Term Behavioral [...]
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You need to Chill Out!
Stress wreaks havoc on the mind and body. Stress is associated with greater risk for depression, heart disease and infectious diseases. But, until now, it has not been clear exactly how stress influences disease and health.
A research team led by Carnegie Mellon University’s Sheldon Cohen has found that chronic psychological [...]
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First volume of Cancer Cell Line Encyclopedia released
The goal of cancer treatment is to match the right drug to the right target in the right patient. But before such “personalized” drugs can be developed, more knowledge is needed about specific genomic alterations in cancers and their sensitivity to potential therapeutic agents.
Now an academic-industry collaboration is releasing the [...]
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