Alpaca immune system reveals a potential treatment for cancer
Researchers have identified camelid nanobodies that are able to block EGF, a protein that is abundant in tumour cells...
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Cancer immunotherapy researchers win Nobel prize
Researchers from the US and Japan have received the Nobel prize in medicine for their development of cancer immunotherapy using PD-1 and CTLA-4...
PSD-95 molecule reveal potential treatment for stroke patients
A novel hybrid approach has revealed a 3D structure of a protein fragment that could serve as a drug target in treating stroke patients...
Rare mechanism for ALL to relapse after CAR-T therapy
A single leukemic cell has become resistant to CAR-T therapy after unknowingly engineered with the leukemia-targeting CAR lentivirus...
Targets for chronic kidney disease treatment
The DAB2 pathway could be a crucial target in treating CKD, as mouse models show a decrease in DAB2 leads to prevention of the condition...
New technique generates brain stem cells more efficiently
Scientists in Ohio have developed a more efficient means of creating brain stem cells, specifically oligodendrocyte progenitor cells, or OPCs, which will help facilitate greater understanding of neurological disorders that result from myelin damage.
Oxygen sensitive nanoparticles used for 3D printing of complex tissue-like structures
Researchers have implemented oxygen sensitive nanoparticles into a gel material that can be used for 3D printing of complex, biofilm and tissue-like structures...
Super-resolution microscopy builds multicolour 3D images from 2D
Researchers have developed a method of exploiting fluorescence in microscopy to generate 3D images of organelles and structures within cells from 2D images...
Amazonian plant provides anti-tumour activity
A plant from the Amazonian region of Colombia has shown anti-tumour properties against human liver cancer cells, but not against healthy cells...
Cancer vaccine shows promise for HER2-positive cancers
Treatment with a HER2-targeted therapeutic cancer vaccine provided clinical benefit to several patients with metastatic HER2-positive cancers...
Kidney disease biomarker could help detect COPD
A biomarker usually used with kidney disease, could potentially be used to detect COPD through identifying levels of albuminuria in urine...
DNA vaccine shows promise for cancer immunotherapy
DNA vaccine optimised to cross-react with several MAGE-A isoforms generates a robust immune response and antitumour activity in a pre-clinical model of melanoma...
NIH to build cell atlas of the human body
The NIH's Common Fund programme looks towards building a cell map of all individual cells in the human body to aid the detection of disease...
‘Paintable’ chemotherapy for melanoma shrinks tumours
A hydrogel incorporating transfersomes and chemotherapy drugs incorporated with some intravenous medication may be the best treatment for melanoma...
Sugar specific molecules show promising results for new allergy vaccine
Using sugar molecules researchers have developed a new vaccine for hay fever that may reduce treatment times and increase the effectiveness of treatments...