Madrid, Spain – Ewing sarcoma is a tumour of the bones and soft tissues that occurs in children and young people. Like all childhood cancers, it is rare – 9 to 10 cases per million inhabitants per year – but it is very aggressive. 25% of patients do not respond...
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Salt Lake City, Utah – A federally funded research team led by Sheri Holmen, PhD, investigator at Huntsman Cancer Institute and professor in the Department of Surgery at the University of Utah, is testing a new combination drug therapy that could both treat and prevent melanoma metastasis, or spreading from its original site, to...
Charleston, South Carolina – In science, a simple but thorough observation can kick-start the most surprising findings. Researchers at the Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina noticed that mice lacking a protein of interest in cancer research were showing visible signs of abnormal motor functions as...
Trondheim, Norway – Which medicine is best when you are affected by cancer? This can vary from person to person. A new method can help people with a specific type of blood cancer get the best medicine for them. “The new method can help those affected by chronic myelogenous leukemia,”...
Gothenburg, Sweden – Medical image analysis using AI has developed rapidly in recent years. Now, one of the largest studies to date has been carried out using AI-assisted image analysis of lymphoma, cancer of the lymphatic system. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology in Sweden, have developed a computer model...
Many more adults with Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD) are living longer thanks to improvements in treatment, however international standards of care have not yet fully addressed the complex needs of these patients. The Adult North Star Network (ANSI) has developed a set of consensus-based recommendations designed to significantly improve quality...
San Francisco, CA – Children and adults with rare, deadly genetic diseases have fresh hope for curative therapies, thanks to a new collaboration between the Innovative Genomics Institute (IGI) and Danaher Corporation, a global life sciences and diagnostics innovator. The new Danaher-IGI Beacon for CRISPR Cures center will use genome...
BOSTON, Mass. — Vertex Pharmaceuticals Incorporated (Nasdaq: VRTX) today announced data across multiple studies demonstrating positive clinical and quality of life benefits of treatment with CFTR modulators and, in particular, ALYFTREK® (vanzacaftor/tezacaftor/deutivacaftor), which is approved in the United States and United Kingdom and is currently under review with health authorities in the EU, Canada, Australia, New Zealand and Switzerland. These data...
Philadelphia, PA – The new Kids First datasets advance our understanding of how genetics contribute to childhood cancers and congenital disorders, opening new doors for prevention and treatment. WHO: The Gabriella Miller Kids First Pediatric Research Program (Kids First), an initiative of the National Institutes of Health (NIH) WHAT: Kids...
SOUTH PLAINFIELD, N.J. – PTC Therapeutics, Inc. (NASDAQ: PTCT) today announced data from the first study on the impact of caring for a child with the ultra-rare genetic disorder, aromatic L-Amino acid decarboxylase deficiency (AADC-d). Results show that caregivers spend almost every waking moment caring for a child with AADC-d,...