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Cell Therapy
Cell therapy is therapy in which cellular material is injected into a patient; this generally means intact, living cells. For example, T cells capable of fighting cancer cells via cell-mediated immunity may be injected in the course of immunotherapy.
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SEP 07, 2015Immunology
Our immune system is our protection against foreign invaders like harmful bacteria and viruses. When our immune cells re ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 02, 2015Videos
Scientists have developed a helpful model to study cancer cell growth. There are many different types of cancer, and mos ...Written By: Kara MarkerAUG 30, 2015Cancer
While mathematical models are powerful tools for demonstrating how cancer grows and spreads, they have an either/or prob ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 30, 2015Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins researchers think that a common gene mutation triggers the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic l ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 29, 2015Cancer
Viruses can be involved in the development of serious diseases. A case in point is liver cancer, which often develops in ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 28, 2015Microbiology
As of 2012, roughly 35 million people were living with HIV worldwide, and 1.5 million died from AIDS-related illnesses i ...Written By: Kerry EvansAUG 26, 2015Cancer
Cancer researchers, always looking for more effective and less toxic approaches to stopping the disease, recently launch ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 20, 2015Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 17, 2015Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 12, 2015Cancer
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a drug candidate that overstimulates proteins critical to tumor ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 08, 2015Neuroscience
Researchers Amber Southwell, Michael Hayden and Blair Leavitt at the University of British Columbia Centre for Molecular ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 07, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have discovered as many as 1,000 genetic mutations along the autism spectrum. One enzyme that could be respo ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 06, 2015Cancer
How do tumors grow, and how can they be stopped? A collaborative study between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 04, 2015Genetics & Genomics
A gene on a chromosome linked with Down syndrome also has implications for developing childhood leukemia, according to r ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 30, 2015Neuroscience
Why do some people eat so much? It may be because of a hormone in the brain that controls eating for sheer pleasure, rat ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 27, 2015Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Genetics & Genomics
When people get sick or hurt, they lose huge numbers of cells. For example, as pointed out in an article in Futurity, "T ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Health & Medicine
The American Journal of Pathology recently published a study that yields promising results in the search for better trea ...Written By: Kara MarkerJUL 22, 2015Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 19, 2015Neuroscience
Using light to remotely activate drugs could be the next big thing in treating pain, depression, epilepsy and other neur ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 17, 2015Cancer
Could here be a direct connection between metabolism and cancer? Researchers in Texas and Austria seem to think there is ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 17, 2015Neuroscience
What causes autism? Is there something physical that accounts for behavioral differences?
Researchers have gr ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 13, 2015Health & Medicine
Cholera is the most prominent diarrheal disease in Bangladesh. Its widespread infection is due to unsanitary conditions ...Written By: Kara Marker
SEP 07, 2015
Immunology
Our immune system is our protection against foreign invaders like harmful bacteria and viruses. When our immune cells re
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 02, 2015
Videos
Scientists have developed a helpful model to study cancer cell growth. There are many different types of cancer, and mos
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
AUG 30, 2015
Cancer
While mathematical models are powerful tools for demonstrating how cancer grows and spreads, they have an either/or prob
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Johns Hopkins researchers think that a common gene mutation triggers the brain damage associated with both amyotrophic l
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 29, 2015
Cancer
Viruses can be involved in the development of serious diseases. A case in point is liver cancer, which often develops in
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 28, 2015
Microbiology
As of 2012, roughly 35 million people were living with HIV worldwide, and 1.5 million died from AIDS-related illnesses i
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 26, 2015
Cancer
Cancer researchers, always looking for more effective and less toxic approaches to stopping the disease, recently launch
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 17, 2015
Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 12, 2015
Cancer
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a drug candidate that overstimulates proteins critical to tumor
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 08, 2015
Neuroscience
Researchers Amber Southwell, Michael Hayden and Blair Leavitt at the University of British Columbia Centre for Molecular
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 07, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers have discovered as many as 1,000 genetic mutations along the autism spectrum. One enzyme that could be respo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 06, 2015
Cancer
How do tumors grow, and how can they be stopped? A collaborative study between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 04, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
A gene on a chromosome linked with Down syndrome also has implications for developing childhood leukemia, according to r
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 30, 2015
Neuroscience
Why do some people eat so much? It may be because of a hormone in the brain that controls eating for sheer pleasure, rat
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 27, 2015
Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
When people get sick or hurt, they lose huge numbers of cells. For example, as pointed out in an article in Futurity, "T
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Health & Medicine
The American Journal of Pathology recently published a study that yields promising results in the search for better trea
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
JUL 22, 2015
Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 19, 2015
Neuroscience
Using light to remotely activate drugs could be the next big thing in treating pain, depression, epilepsy and other neur
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 17, 2015
Cancer
Could here be a direct connection between metabolism and cancer? Researchers in Texas and Austria seem to think there is
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 17, 2015
Neuroscience
What causes autism? Is there something physical that accounts for behavioral differences?
Researchers have gr ...
Researchers have gr ...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 13, 2015
Health & Medicine
Cholera is the most prominent diarrheal disease in Bangladesh. Its widespread infection is due to unsanitary conditions
...
Written By:
Kara Marker