Each cancer patient’s tumors have cells that look and act differently, making it difficult for scientists to determine treatments based…
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Surrogate coronavirus may help researchers discover therapies and vaccines
To study the potentially lethal coronavirus, Albert Einstein College of Medicine scientists have turned a relatively harmless virus into a…
Use of unproven COVID-19 therapies by African American patients poses risks
Nearly one out of every 10 African Americans has a genetic variant that puts them inherently at an increased risk…
New math model could lead to more personalized cancer therapies
Researchers have found a new way to use math to better treat cancer and prevent its relapse. Using the first…
The role of family doctors in advanced therapies
A recent study conducted jointly by the Tissue Engineering Research Group of the Department of Histology and the family medicine…
Epigenetic study provides new approaches to combination therapies for aggressive cancers
Epigenetic processes enable cells to respond to changes in their environment by regulating the activity of their genes. One of…
Stem cells make more ‘cargo’ packets to carry cellular aging therapies
Johns Hopkins scientists report that adult cells reprogrammed to become primitive stem cells, called induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs), make…
Cancer-killing combination therapies unveiled with new drug-screening tool
UC San Francisco scientists have designed a large-scale screen that efficiently identifies drugs that are potent cancer-killers when combined, but…
Therapies must become more intensive
Conventional physical therapy for stroke survivors is not intensive enough, says Robert Riener. Therapy robots could help patients get back…
Bioluminescent deep-sea creatures illuminate the effectiveness of new cancer therapies
Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of USC have developed a new laboratory tool, which is poised to improve…