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Breakthrough study stops cancer hijacking immune cells

Michael Irving January 6, 2019

Cancer uses some insidious tricks to survive and spread in the body. But now researchers at Rush University and the University of California, San Diego have found a way to intervene in one of these schemes, preventing tumors from recruiting immune cells to help them grow and metastasize.

A new study has found a way to reverse one of cancer's crafty little tricks, where ...

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Breakthrough study explains how the immune system puts cancer cells to sleep

Rich Haridy January 1, 2019

An exciting new study has uncovered how the immune system can keep cancer cells in a dormant state. It's hoped the breakthrough insight will offer new pathways for research into immunotherapy techniques that can essentially stop a tumor's growth for an indefinite period of time.

New Australian research discovered a novel type of immune cell can keep malignant cancer cells from ...

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Scientists use modified salmonella to smuggle cancer-fighting particles into the tumor

Nick Lavars December 20, 2018

A promising new cancer-fighting approach developed at Virginia Tech leans on the penetrative properties of a salmonella infection, which they’ve found can be used as a vehicle to smuggle important nanoparticles into a tumor in a huge abundance.

Microbes like bacteria could prove valuable tools in moving our cancer-fighting efforts forward

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Novel nano-gel promises to help kill leftover cancer cells after surgery

Rich Haridy December 10, 2018

The first step in many cancer treatments is to surgically remove the tumor, however this often isn’t enough. As long as a few cancer cells remain the tumors often grow back, but a new innovative spray gel, administered onto a cancerous site during surgery, may help prevent the tumors recurring.

The gel helps the immune system target and kill any cancer cells that remain after tumor-removal ...

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Peanut allergy desensitization treatment shows success, but for how long?

Rich Haridy November 20, 2018

A new oral desensitization treatment for children with peanut allergies is on the cusp of FDA approval, however questions remain over both the long-term efficacy of the treatment and the ultimate cost for what is essentially not that different to peanut flour in a capsule.

A desensitization treatment that involves slowly introducing small doses of peanut protein to a child's diet ...

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Promising DNA vaccine for Alzheimer’s moves closer to human trials

Rich Haridy November 20, 2018

Researchers may be one step closer to finding the holy grail of Alzheimer’s treatments - a single dose vaccine that prevents the onset of the disease. A study has revealed a DNA vaccine can successfully reduce the accumulation of toxic proteins associated with the progression of Alzheimer’s.

After success in three separate animal models an Alzheimer's vaccine is on the cusp of human ...

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Scientists engineer a virus to take out cancer cells and their accomplices

Nick Lavars November 19, 2018

Scientists have developed a pioneering two-pronged virus that targets cancerous cells and the healthy neighboring cells that can aid and abet them, a new tool they describe as the first of its kind.

Scientists have given an engineered virus some new cancer-fighting abilities

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How can obesity both fuel tumor growth and help new immunotherapy drugs work better?

Rich Haridy November 12, 2018

Two studies have provided new insights into the relationship between obesity and cancer. The research reveals fascinatingly paradoxical effects, suggesting obesity can suppress our immune responses to enhance tumor growth, but also improve the efficacy of a new kind of cancer-killing immunotherapy.

The same obesity-driven process that speeds up cancer growth may also help improve the efficacy of ...

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"Lab on a chip" technology picks personalized cancer-fighting molecules out of a crowd

Nick Lavars November 7, 2018

In an exciting advance in the burgeoning world of bespoke cancer treatments, scientists have developed a new immunotherapy screening technology that greatly accelerates the creation of drugs that can target individual tumors with 100-percent specificity.

UCI's Weian Zhao and his team have developed a new technology that promises to greatly accelerate ...

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New eczema drug unexpectedly restores hair in bald alopecia patient

Rich Haridy October 11, 2018

A new case study published in the journal JAMA Dermatology reveals a young patient suffering from severe eczema along with a longstanding case of alopecia totalis has displayed major hair regrowth after being treated with a newly approved eczema drug.

Within weeks of starting the eczema treatment the patient unexpectedly discovered hair growth on her scalp