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Researchers’ new tests hold promise for treating respiratory illnesses and limiting overuse of antibiotics.
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January 26, 2016 11:54 AM
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September 3, 2015 1:21 PM
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Dieses Wespengift könnte nun für Mediziner einen vollkommen neuen Mechanismus für Krebsmedikamente hervorrufen. Forscher haben nämlich bei Versuchen herausgefunden, dass das darin enthaltene Eiweiß Krebszellen tötet und gleichzeitig keine negative Auswirkung auf die gesunden Zellen hat. Genau genommen greift es die Flüssigkeitszusammensetzung der Zellmembran an. „Damit könnten neue Kombinationstherapien entwickelt werden, wo mehrere Medikamente parallel gegen Krebs eingesetzt werden, um ihn gleichzeitig von mehreren Seiten zu attackieren“, lässt einer der Studienautoren Paul Beales von der University of Leeds in Großbritannien verlauten.
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March 22, 2015 8:51 AM
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Wie breiten sich multiresistente Bakterien in Krankenhäusern aus? Forscher haben die Infektionswege mithilfe kleiner Sensoren aufgeklärt, die Patienten und medizinisches Personal über Monate tragen mussten.
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October 2, 2014 2:46 PM
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A patch made of flexible electronics could be attached to a person's skin and reveal problems such as poor circulation or dehydration, new research suggests.
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May 27, 2014 12:28 PM
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Des victimes de blessures par balles ou par arme blanche vont être refroidies de l'intérieur pour laisser le temps aux chirurgiens d'opérer. Une méthode qui pourrait sauver de nombreuses vies, et qui va être testée dans un hôpital de Pittsburgh (USA).
Le feu vert pour des essais sur des êtres humains a été donné par la US Food and Drug Administration, autorité américaine en charge du secteur médical.
New drugs offer cancer patients hope
Pioneering immunotherapy drugs could soon be offering new hope to patients with hard-to-treat advanced cancers.
These are important results because they extend the potential for therapy to situations where there is minimal or no tumour present," Dr Giordano said. The new nivolumab data showed two-year survival for heavily pre-treated melanoma with almost half of patients responding to treatment. More than half of non-small cell lung cancer patients previously treated with three or more therapies also survived two years after receiving the drug. Up to 71 per cent of patients with advanced kidney cancer who had previously been treated with drugs that target tumour blood vessels lived a year with the treatment. All were "end-of-the-line" patients who had been given only weeks or months to live.
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May 7, 2014 10:25 AM
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The Cancer Research Institute (CRI) is the world's only nonprofit leader dedicated exclusively to advancing immunology and immunotherapy to conquer all cancers.
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April 17, 2014 11:16 AM
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A luminescent nanoparticle to advance photodynamic cancer therapy
A University of Texas at Arlington physicist working to create a luminescent nanoparticle to use in security-related radiation detection may have instead happened upon an advance in photodynamic cancer therapy.Wei Chen, professor of physics and co-director of UT Arlington’s Center for Security Advances Via Applied Nanotechnology, was testing a copper-cysteamine complex created in his lab when he discovered unexplained decreases in its luminescence, or light emitting power, over a time-lapse exposure to X-rays. Looking further, he found that the nanoparticles, called Cu-Cy, were losing energy as they emitted singlet oxygen – a toxic byproduct that is used to damage cancer cells in photodynamic therapy. . Learn more: .
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April 9, 2014 5:26 PM
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Bien s’alimenter est une des clés d’une bonne santé. Souvent, le régime végétarien est jugé meilleur pour notre organisme. Néanmoins, une nouvelle étude semble indiquer que les amateurs de verdure...
Là où les conclusions surprennent et font naître une polémique, c’est lorsqu’elles montrent que les végétariens se sentent en moins bonne santé que leurs homologues soumis aux autres régimes alimentaires, d'après les questionnaires d'auto-évaluation.
Ce n'est pas seulement un ressenti puisqu'ils souffrent davantage d’allergies (30,6 % contre 16,7 à 18,2 %), de cancers (4,8 % contre 1,2 à 3,3 %) ou de troubles de l’humeur (9,4 % contre 4,5 à 5,8 %).
Drug Discovery & Development Immunotherapy Data Heralds New Era of Lung Cancer Treatment Drug Discovery & Development Two of the most interesting immunocheckpoint molecules in this setting are known as PD-1 (programmed death) and PD-L1 (programmed... . Learn more: .
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March 18, 2016 1:30 PM
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While beer connoisseurs have mixed and heated opinions about the trend of ever-more hoppy beers, some researchers just can’t get enough of the bitter buds.
Their keen interest stems from the potentially untapped medicinal properties of the flowers. Traditional medicine has long used hops for everything from sedation to combatting infections. And researchers have noted that the plant’s chemical constituents appear to have anti-inflammatory, antibacterial, and anti-cancer activities. Yet chemists are still working out all the chemicals responsible for the potentially therapeutic effects and how to use them to brew up new medicines.
Now, with two new studies, researchers report that they’re getting closer to pinning down and optimizing hop-based medicines.
In one study, appearing in the Journal of Natural Products, a team of Italian researchers identified three previously unknown chemicals from Cascade hops—which are used in many American brews, but perhaps notably as a finishing hop in Sierra Nevada’s Pale Ale. One of the chemicals has clear anti-inflammatory properties.
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January 29, 2016 7:15 AM
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Talk about a New Year’s Revolution. Instead of injections, steroids or anti-inflammatory drugs, you simply rub on an ointment, and the pain in your joints goes away.
If that sounds like the latest promise by a snake oil merchant giving false hope to the millions feeling the wear and tear of their joints or sufferers of osteoarthritis – the most common form of arthritis – the medical experts who put the wonder gel FLEXISEQ to the test branded it ‘effective and safe’.
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March 10, 2015 12:01 PM
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The world is still trying to figure out why every home would need a 3D printer, but in the professional world they continue to thrive. At the International Dental Show currently going on in Germany, Stratasys announced a new 3D printer that uses multiple materials at once to create startlingly realistic dental models in a single print run.
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June 9, 2014 8:53 AM
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Genes of the long-lived blind mole-rat help explain how the animal evades cancer and why it has no eyes.
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May 10, 2014 11:28 AM
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Des chercheurs français de l'ESPCI-ParisTech viennent de démontrer l’efficacité de nanoparticules pour réparer des tissus et même des organes mous comme le foie, pour lequel aucune méthode...
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May 1, 2014 6:16 PM
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Last year, Victoria University of Wellington graduate Jake Evill created the Cortex cast, a concept that sought to potentially replace traditional plaster casts while also offering the added benefit of being lightweight and odor-free. Now, the Osteoid cast, a new concept designed by Deniz Karasahin, takes things a step further by adding an ultrasound device meant to speed up the healing process.
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"Celldex Therapeutics announced today that final data from its Phase 1 study of CDX-1401 in solid tumors, including long-term patient follow-up, have been published inScience Translational Medicine.
The data demonstrate robust antibody and T cell responses and evidence of clinical benefit in patients with very advanced cancers and suggest that CDX-1401 may predispose patients to better outcomes on subsequent therapy with checkpoint inhibitors. CDX-1401 is an off-the-shelf vaccine consisting of a fully human monoclonal antibody with specificity for the dendritic cell receptor DEC-205 linked to the NY-ESO-1 tumor antigen. The vaccine is designed to activate the patient's immune system against cancers that express the tumor marker NY-ESO-1.
While the function of NY-ESO-1 continues to be explored, references in the literature suggest that its expression might reflect the acquisition of properties that cancers find useful, such as immortality, self-renewal, migratory ability and the capacity to invade." Editor's note: Cancer vaccines like CDX-1401 are a type of immunotherapy, meaning that they boost a patient's own immune system to fight cancer. CDX-1401 is able to attack tumor cells because the tumor cells have a molecule called NY-ESO-1 that CDX-1401 recognizes. We recently published a story about another treatment that is meant for patients whose tumors have NY-ESO-1.
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April 17, 2014 10:34 AM
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Les bactéries de nos intestins jouent un rôle crucial dans notre santé et peu à peu, les scientifiques établissent la liste des bonnes et des mauvaises. Mais celle-ci doit être remise à plat,...
Nos entrailles constituent un terrain de jeu privilégié pour de nombreux micro-organismes. Il faut dire que nos intestins sont une aubaine pour de nombreuses espèces bactériennes, qui profitent de la nourriture qui passe dans ce long tuyau pour trouver de l’énergie. En retour, elles nous aident à ladigestion, et interviennent en réalité à de nombreux niveaux, facilitant certaines fonctions et nous protégeant de maladies.
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March 30, 2014 9:54 AM
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Von kleinen Plastikmännchen über Nudeln zu Prototypen für die Industrie – inzwischen kann man mit 3D-Druckern fast alles drucken. Herausfordernd wird es erst, wenn die „Drucke“ sehr akkurat und klein und dann noch aus schwer bearbeitbaren oder teuren Materialien gefertigt sein sollen. . Die Wissenschaftler am Laser Zentrum Hannover e.V. (LZH) setzen sich genau mit dieser Thematik auseinander. Auf der Hannover Messe 2014 zeigen sie, wie sie den Laser nutzen, um winzige Implantate mit Gedächtnisfunktion oder komplexe Formen, wie die Hörschnecke des menschlichen Innenohrs, zu fertigen.
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Cancer patients could find out if chemotherapy is working just eight hours after their first treatment...
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