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(NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine) Black men most likely to benefit from advanced prostate cancer therapies are 11% less likely to get them than non-Black men.

After more than a century of risky trials and medical advances, a viral cure for cancer could be on the horizon.

(Luxembourg Institute of Health) The LIH Department of Oncology (DONC) team elucidated the mechanism through which the H-1PV cancer-destroying virus can cause cell lysis and death. At the heart of this process lie lamini...

(University of Arizona) Researchers at the University of Arizona believe the liver may hold the key to new, preventative Type 2 diabetes treatments.

(Baylor College of Medicine) A novel combination therapy resulted in a significant decrease of disease burden in an animal model of LCH.

(European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology) Fertility patients who have a poor response to ovarian stimulation represent a stubborn challenge in IVF. Clinical guidelines indicate that increasing the drug dose...

(AIDS Clinical Trials Group) The AIDS Clinical Trials Group (ACTG), the largest global HIV research network, today announced that findings from a sub-study of REPRIEVE (A5332/A5332s, an international clinical trial study...

(NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases) An adjuvant developed with funding from the National Institutes of Health has contributed to the success of the highly efficacious COVAXIN COVID-19 vaccine, whi...

(eLife ) Six antibody characteristics could help scientists identify which pregnant women are at risk of placental malaria infections.

(Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology) A new study led by Dan Llano and Baher Ibrahim at the Beckman Institute for Advanced Science and Technology at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign discovere...

(RCSI) New research has shown that early testing for blood clots in patients who had received the AstraZeneca/Oxford vaccine led to them being treated successfully, highlighting the need for heightened awareness of the r...

(The Wistar Institute) New biomarkers that predict HIV remission after antiretroviral therapy (ART) interruption are critical for the development of new therapeutic strategies that can achieve infection control without A...

(Padilla) Researchers from the University of Manitoba and the Pan Am Clinic published a paper in the journal Arthroscopy, Sports Medicine, and Rehabilitation that looked at the effectiveness of a mixed reality simulator ...

(University of Ottawa) Newly published results highlight that many First Nations want access to traditional foods and environmental factors impact access to food and clean water. The study also highlights the successful ...

(Duke University Medical Center) Combining structural biology and computation, a Duke-led team of researchers has identified how multiple mutations on the SARS-CoV-2 spike protein independently create variants that are m...

(European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer) European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer (EORTC) and Pierre Fabre today announced a strategic partnership in support of patients with resecte...

(eLife ) New insight on how our experiences during a task or interaction shape our current mood has been published today in the open-access eLife journal.

(Mary Ann Liebert, Inc./Genetic Engineering News) Among low-income, uninsured, or publicly insured women ages 25-64 years who were not up to date on cervical cancer screening, 72% perceived financial barriers to screenin...

(University College London) Scientists and doctors at UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health (UCL GOS ICH) and Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) have given hope of a gene therapy cure to children with a rare...

(Hackensack Meridian Health) The compound TA-C is metabolized by TB bacteria - weakening the germ from within like a 'Trojan horse' attack

(Max-Planck-Gesellschaft) New research suggests that a coronavirus infection alters the biomechanical properties of red and white blood cells, in some cases for months -- a possible explanation for long COVID.

(DZNE - German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases) A stimulating environment keeps the 'hippocampus' -- which is the brain's memory control center -- young, so to speak. Causes of this are molecular mechanisms that af...