Emory Doctors Discuss "Killing Heat" In This Week's NEJM
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...esearch have created anovel vaccine they hope will thwart prostate cancer. Now in early human trials,the vaccine is the first made synthetically to target abundant, but elusive,carbohydrates on the surface of tumor cells. The development will be outlined in the November 20 Web edition of the Journalof the ...Combination immune therapy kills melanoma in mice
... against cancer often fails because tumorcells can thwart this nascent immune response by becoming invisible to theimmune system. The tumor cell's cloaking ability rests with a molecule known as cytotoxiclymphocyte-associated antigen 4, or CTLA-4. This molecule, which healthy cellsalso produce, appears to...HIV's deep pocket may reveal vulnerability
...t cells. Thusfar, most antiviral drugs designed to thwart HIV attack viral enzymes andprevent the virus from reproducing only after HIV has already entered a hostcell. HIV is also adept at developing resistance to these enzyme-attackingdrugs, making them effective for only a limited time. The researchers s...'Chaos' theory empowers researchers to predict epileptic seizures
...tect the preseizure state and automatically act to thwart it. They noted that suchdevices have been developed for other conditions, including diabetes. A scientist who collaborated with Sackellares and Iasemidis in the early 1990s said he had beenskeptical back then that the computational difficulties of t...Bacterial protein kills tumors
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...h suggests that pesticides and herbicides actually thwart the production of phenolics chemicals that act as a plant's natural defense and also happen to be good for our health. Fertilizers, however, seem to boost the levels of anti-cancer compounds. The findings appear in the Feb. 26 print edition of the ...UCSD researchers decipher function of blood-brain barrier in bacterial meningitis
...l factors specific to the meningitis pathogen that thwart the normal protective role of the blood-brain barrier, leading to serious infection. Composed of a layer of blood vessels called brain microvascular endothelial cells (BMEC), the blood-brain barrier separates the brain and its surrounding tissues fro...UCLA teams with Drew to provide cancer care
... attributed to language and cultural barriers that thwart proven ways to detect and prevent cancer when it is most treatable. For example, cervical cancer has been preventable since the introduction of the Pap smear in 1941. However, a recent study of 312,858 low-income women found that only 60 percent had ...Cancer markers news backgrounder: Future of cancer diagnosis, treatment lies in tumor 'barcode'
...er who studies the potential of biomarkers to help thwart even the initial development of cancer. "There will be different rates of discovery for different types of cancer, but we are getting there."...Cool brain opens stroke treatment window, say Stanford researchers
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