SAN DIEGO – Results from the phase III randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled BELIEVE and MEDALIST trials presented at the 60th American Society of Hematology (ASH) Annual Meeting over the weekend showed that the experimental red blood cell maturation drug luspatercept (Celgene Corp./Acceleron Pharma Inc.) reduced the need for transfusions in two different indications.
Researchers from the Swiss University of Zurich reported that targeting granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) could separate desired from undesired immune responses after allogeneic bone marrow transplantation.
Like everything that's been tried against Alzheimer's disease (AD) to date, a vaccination approach has resulted in failure. In fact, that failure was worse than most.
Researchers from Baylor College of Medicine have identified a metabolic target in prostate cancer, opening up the possibility for a target that could serve as an alternative or second-line treatment for hormone-targeting treatments.
Want to figure out how to manipulate a cell? See how other cells do it. That, in a nutshell, is the premise underlying the biomedical use of exosomes, small packets of – well, of lots of different things.
Researchers at the University of Chicago have identified a new member of the tripartite motif (TRIM) family of proteins that could control the reactivation of several herpesviruses, including the cancer-associated Kaposi's sarcoma herpesvirus (KSHV).
Researchers at the University of Iowa have identified a protein fragment of the structural protein junctophilin-2 that could partially prevent pathological processes contributing to heart failure.
Researchers at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute and the Swiss Friedrich Miescher Institute have developed a method to find compounds that will induce the degradation of zinc fingers, which collectively are thought to comprise the single largest group of transcription factors in the human proteome.
