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Lung Cancer
Lung Cancer: is a cancer that ignites in the lungs and most often exist in people who smoke. Two major types of lung cancer are non-small cell lung cancer and small cell lung cancer. The roots of lung cancer include smoking, secondhand smoke, exposure to certain toxins, and family history. The treatments vary but may include surgery, chemotherapy, targeted drug therapy, radiation therapy, and immunotherapy.
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DEC 01, 2017Drug Discovery & Development
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Most babies born with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) don’t live past their first year of life, but there ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 14, 2017Cancer
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More than half of all heart attack patients die within five years of the event. This is a frightening statistic, but Uni ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 08, 2017Videos
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DEC 01, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Considerations and Limitations of High Throughput Screening for Drug Discovery
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 29, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
New evidence that chromatin rearranges in a reversible manner in drug resistant cancer cells
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 22, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
The use of bispecific antibodies in cancer immunotherapies
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 22, 2017
Neuroscience
The blood-brain barrier has been referred to in research as the "holy grail." The purpose of it is to protect
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 21, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
We are using 3D organoids to unravel new therapies for a broad spectrum of human disease
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 17, 2017
Cancer
Women who have seemingly beaten breast cancer may still be at risk for the cancer’s unceremonious return decades l
...
NOV 12, 2017
Drug Discovery & Development
Repurposing already approved drugs for new therapeutic indications to expedite new drugs being used in the clinic
Written By:
Courtney Schaal
NOV 03, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Smoke from factories, incinerators, and cigarette smoke contains chemicals that can disrupt the crucial early stages of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
NOV 03, 2017
Cancer
A dense metal found in space rocks could be the kryptonite for cancer cells, researchers announced. The metal is known a
...
NOV 02, 2017
Cancer
Aspirin, one of the cheapest and most readily available drugs, may help people avoid a host of gastrointestinal cancers,
...
NOV 01, 2017
Immunology
Smoking cigarettes is a habit well-known for its association with an increased risk for lung cancer, heart disease, and
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 20, 2017
Genetics & Genomics
Researchers are always looking for new ways to treat cancer more effectively, and utilizing mechanisms that we already h
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 18, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Stem cells are hold tremendous therapeutic value, but it has been a challenge finding a way to harvest enough of them fo
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
OCT 06, 2017
Cancer
Earlier this week, a man’s “lung cancer” turned out to be a toy he swallowed 40 years ago. To continue
...
OCT 03, 2017
Clinical & Molecular DX
A British man is quite literally breathing a little easier after finding out that he doesn’t have lung cancer. Rat
...
OCT 02, 2017
Immunology
Miscommunication between the nervous system and the immune system leads to the coughing and wheezing known all too well
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 01, 2017
Cell & Molecular Biology
Mutations in DNA can have a variety of harmful effects, but sometimes a mutation can confer a benefit.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 24, 2017
Earth & The Environment
Researchers from the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and the Veterans Affairs (VA) St. Louis Healt
...
Written By:
Kathryn DeMuth Sullivan
SEP 22, 2017
Cancer
With cancer putting up such strong fight, scientists are resorting to more unconventional therapies to give them the edg
...
SEP 19, 2017
Microbiology
Bacteria in tumors make cancer resistant to chemotherapy. Wait, what? That’s right. According to Ravid Straussman
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 16, 2017
Health & Medicine
Most babies born with severe combined immune deficiency (SCID) don’t live past their first year of life, but there
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 14, 2017
Cancer
Larry King, the famed talk show host, recently revealed his diagnosis of Stage 1 lung cancer. King then underwent surger
...
SEP 08, 2017
Health & Medicine
More than half of all heart attack patients die within five years of the event. This is a frightening statistic, but Uni
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 08, 2017
Videos
There are hundreds of different forms of cancer, but one that most people do not hear much about is polycythemia vera, c
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim