Ulsan, South Korea – A groundbreaking technology with immense potential in treating ischemic retinopathy in premature infants and diabetic patients has been developed by Professor Byoung Heon Kang and his research team in the Department of Biological Sciences at UNIST, in collaboration with Professor Dong Ho Park’s team at Kyungpook...
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Bosto, Mass. – A major breakthrough in the treatment of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, known as ALS, can potentially help stop the disease in its tracks in as much as half of the cases in the U.S., a Northeastern University scientist says. Jeffrey Agar, associate professor of chemistry and pharmaceutical sciences...
San Diego, Calif. – Treatment with BAY 2927088 led to rapid, substantial, and durable responses in patients with heavily pretreated HER2-mutant non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), according to research presented today at the International Association for the Study of Lung Cancer 2024 World Conference on Lung Cancer. BAY 2927088 is...
PHOENIX, Arizona — Mayo Clinic announces the results of an innovative treatment approach that may offer improvement in overall survival in older patients with newly diagnosed glioblastoma while maintaining quality of life. Glioblastoma is the most lethal type of primary brain cancer due to its aggressive nature and its treatment-resistant characteristics. It is...
Orlando, Florida – University of Central Florida College of Medicine researcher Renee Fleeman is on a mission to kill drug-resistant bacteria, and her latest study has identified a therapy that can penetrate the slime that such infections use to protect themselves from antibiotics. In a study published recently in Cell Reports...
Milan, Italy: Patients with breast cancer that has started to spread to the lymph nodes in the armpit can safely avoid extensive removal of the lymph nodes if their treatment is tailored to their response to cancer-killing therapies such as chemotherapy before surgery. In a presentation to the 14th European...
PRINCETON, N.J. – Bristol Myers Squibb is pulling the plug on a trial investigating what it calls the Opdulag combination, a pairing of Opdivo (nivolumab) and relatlimab, in patients with microsatellite stable metastatic colorectal cancer. In an announcement on Friday, BMS said that data from the Phase III trial of...
Cambridge, Mass. – By analyzing millions of small genetic differences across a person’s genome, researchers can calculate a polygenic risk score to estimate someone’s lifetime odds of developing a certain disease. Over the past decade, scientists have developed these risk scores for dozens of diseases, including heart disease, kidney disease,...
Altering a protein linked to Rett syndrome so that it cannot bind to a particular type of DNA tag results in traits reminiscent of the syndrome, according to a new study in mice. The findings could help explain the syndrome’s delayed onset in people: Because the tag does not arise until after...
CAMBRIDGE & LONDON, England — Broken String Biosciences, a genomics company driving development of the next generation of more precise, safe, and effective cell and gene therapies, today announced it has entered a research collaboration with the Francis Crick Institute, a world-leading biomedical discovery institute dedicated to understanding the biology...