Researchers have found that adding increasing doses of an approved Type 2 diabetes drug, metformin,…
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Up to one-quarter of lung cancer patients ineligible for immunotherapy
A significant proportion of lung cancer patients also have autoimmune disease, which may make them…
Rucaparib shows clinical benefit in pancreatic cancer patients with BRCA mutation
The targeted therapy rucaparib, which has demonstrated robust clinical activity in ovarian cancer patients with…
Wnt stem cell signaling pathway implicated in colorectal cancer in patients under 50
A study of 4,699 tumor samples finds Wnt pathway genes CTNNB1 and FAM123B specifically upregulated…
Study reveals insights into protein linked to cancer, Alzheimer’s disease
Cancer and Alzheimer’s disease drugs target specific proteins, blocking or inhibiting their natural interactions, which…
Bacterial research may lead to less polluted waters
Phosphorus is a crucial nutrient regularly applied to crops such as corn and soybeans to…
Clinicians implant world’s smallest pacemaker
The Micra® Transcatheter Pacing System (TPS) — the world’s smallest pacemaker — has now been…
Saving lives, protecting donors: Transplantation presents update on living-donor organ transplantation
As living donors become an increasingly important source of organs for kidney and liver transplantation,…
New alloy promises to boost rare earth production while improving energy efficiency of engines
Researchers have developed aluminum alloys that are both easier to work with and more heat…
Better animal model to improve HIV vaccine development
Vaccines are usually medicine’s best defense against the world’s deadliest microbes. However, HIV is so…