Study: Copanlisib + rituximab slows relapsed indolent lymphoma
Copanlisib plus rituximab (C+R) reduces disease progression or death in patients with relapsed indolent non-Hodgkin lymphoma (iNHL), according to a …
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Immortalized blood cell lines enable new studies of malaria invasion: Using artificial blood to help find ways to cure malaria
Researchers at the University of Bristol and Imperial College London have established a new model system that uses red blood …
Properties of cells that affect how tissue structures form
Researchers have found that changing the mechanical properties of individual cells disrupts their ability to remain stable, profoundly affecting their …
A leap forward in kidney disease research: Scientists develop breakthrough in vitro model
Kidneys work to constantly filter blood and remove toxins from the body. Conditions such as chronic kidney disease (CKD) are …
Study links progenitor cells to age-related prostate growth: As the organ enlarges, the risk for cancer and other diseases increases
The prostates of older mice contain more luminal progenitor cells — cells capable of generating new prostate tissue — than …
Immune therapy takes a ‘BiTE’ out of brain cancer
Building on their research showing that an exciting new form of immunotherapy for cancer has activity in patients with glioblastoma, …
ASCT may offer alternative for therapy for high-risk follicular lymphoma
(HealthDay)—Autologous stem cell transplantation (ASCT) may be an effective treatment option in high-risk, early therapy failure (ETF) follicular lymphoma (FL), …
Transfer of oncogene in colon cancer cells demonstrated
For years, doctors and scientists have known very little about why patients can receive drugs successfully for months, or even …
Cascade exacerbates storage diseases: Researchers show that a defective degradation enzyme triggers a series of consequential damages
In rare, hereditary storage diseases such as Sandhoff’s disease or Tay-Sachs syndrome, the metabolic waste from accumulating gangliosides cannot be …
New knowledge on the development of asthma
Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have studied which genes are expressed in overactive immune cells in mice with asthma-like …
Scientists recreate blood-brain barrier defect outside the body
Scientists can’t make a living copy of your brain outside your body. That’s the stuff of science fiction. But in …
Immunotherapy drug found safe in treating cancer patients with HIV, study suggests: Researchers seek to break down HIV exclusions in cancer clinical trials
The results of a study led by physicians at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center showed that patients living with HIV …
Potential breakthrough in understanding tumor dormancy
Scientists at VCU Massey Cancer Center may have uncovered a primary method through which cancer cells exist undetected in an …
Particulate matter from aircraft engines affects airways
According to the World Health Organization (WHO), seven million people worldwide die as a consequence of air pollution every year. …
Introducing a kinder, gentler way to blow holes in cells: For injecting CRISPR-Cas9 into cells, new technique is more efficient, simpler and cheaper
When scientists attempt to slip big molecules, like the Cas9 enzyme that is key to CRISPR gene editing, into cells, …
Protein linked to cancer growth drives deadly lung disease: Discovery in laboratory mice suggests possible role for anti-cancer drugs in treating pulmonary fibrosis
A protein associated with cancer growth appears to drive the deadly lung disease known as idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis, according to …
New live-imaging technique reveals cellular repair crew plugging leaky biological barrier
Suppose you live in a brick house and notice cracks in the mortar that let in cold air, rain and …
Investigating cell stress for better health — and better beer
Human beings are not the only ones who suffer from stress — even microorganisms can be affected. Now, researchers from …