Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Targeted Interleukin-12 heats up cold tumors; Therapy allows immune system to ‘manganese’ up against cancer; Proton therapy less toxic than IMRT in new study; Technetium supplies struggling under distribution headaches.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in cardiology, including: Modeling the post-infarct heart; Researchers: Cancer immunotherapy poses threat to heart muscle; Lighting up the path for heart procedures.
The largest study to date on hypermutated gliomas has delivered new insights into their origin, as well as their response to several different treatments. Specifically, even though they are hypermutated, such tumors are unlikely to respond to PD-1 blockers.
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in neurology, including: Gene variant may protect against Alzheimer's; Miniature microscope used to study neural circuit activity in nonhuman primate model; Dopamine has epigenetic role in addiction; Depression’s structural problem.
BioWorld looks at translational medicine, including: Engineering better bacterial backstabbers; Targeting bystander protein improves sepsis outcome; Long noncoding RNA has sex-specific role in depression; Targeted IL-12 heats up cold tumors; Fast route from fibroblasts to photoreceptors; Eating pro-inflammatory IgG helps prevent liver failure; Depression’s structural problem; Modeling the post-infarct heart; Interleukins rile each other up in reaction to implants; Complement links high BMI to dementia.
The largest study to date on hypermutated gliomas has delivered new insights into their origin, as well as their response to several different treatments. Specifically, even though they are hypermutated, such tumors are unlikely to respond to PD-1 blockers.
“Vaccines, obviously, are the ultimate solution for pandemics,” Rino Rappuoli told BioWorld. They have, he added, “already eliminated a lot of pandemic threats – smallpox, influenza, poliomyelitis.”
Keeping you up to date on recent developments in oncology, including: Medical societies ink guidelines for breast cancer care for pandemic; Multiple drivers explained; Study points to new genetic associations for osteosarcoma.