Hong Kong – A crucial player in genomic integrity maintenance, DNA Polymerase Theta (Polθ) provides a potential synthetic lethal relationship in BRCA-deficient tumors, which are particularly prevalent in certain tumor types including triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) and ovarian cancers. In fact, BRCA-deficient tumors account for 11-16% of TNBC cases, and...
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SAN ANTONIO, TX – A drug developed at The University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio (UT Health San Antonio) has been shown to extend survival for patients with glioblastoma, the most common primary brain tumor in adults. Results of a trial led by the university revealed that...
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — While many babies are born without issues on a daily basis, there are quite a few who are born early and with some complications. Those babies end up in the Neonatal Intensive Care Unit (NICU), which is where Dr. Sabrina Malone Jenkins works. The Neonatologist...
EL PASO, Texas — Researchers at The University of Texas at El Paso are developing a new therapeutic approach that uses nanoparticles for the treatment of skin and pulmonary fibrosis, conditions that can result in severe damage to the body’s tissues. Md Nurunnabi, Ph.D., is an associate professor in UTEP’s...
Houston, TX – A medication that appeared to stabilize the function and shape of red blood cells in an earlier study for patients with sickle cell disease is now part of a Phase III clinical trial that is open for enrollment at UTHealth Houston. The trial, led locally by Modupe Idowu,...
NEWARK, Delaware — Uvax Bio, LLC, a privately held, clinical-stage vaccine company utilizing rational and computational biology to design and deliver novel 1c-SApNP® protein-based vaccines, today announced the first participant has been dosed in a Phase 1 clinical trial evaluating the Company’s HIV-1 vaccine candidates, UVAX-1107 and UVAX-1197, in healthy...
SEATTLE, Washington — UZ Leuven and VIB-KU Leuven, in collaboration with Seattle-based Presage Biosciences, are announcing the first patient treated in a Non-randomized (phase I – pharmacodynamic only) open label, single center single arm interventional pilot study. By combining intratumoral treatment with systemic anti-PD1 therapy in first line patients with...
Aurora, Colorado – University of Colorado Cancer Center member Sana Karam, MD, PhD, has received a translational research grant from the V Foundation for Cancer Research, co-founded by ESPN and legendary basketball coach Jim Valvano, to study a new therapeutic that may help pancreatic cancer patients overcome resistance to radiation therapy. “Pancreatic cancer is deadly....
Tallinn, Estonia – The chikungunya virus is widespread in tropical regions, where it is spread to humans by mosquitoes of the genus Aedes. Chikungunya is characterised by high fever, headache, muscle and joint pain, rash and sometimes diarrhoea. This viral disease has become a global health threat. At least five...
HOUSTON, TX ― A vaccine showed potential to prevent relapse of KRAS-mutated pancreatic and colorectal cancers for patients who had previously undergone surgery, according to a Phase I trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center. Results were published today in Nature Medicine. In the...