An international team has developed statistical models to predict the risk of early death in patients being treated with non-intensive therapies for acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Results of analyses using the models will ...
Dec 12, 2021
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A functional precision medicine study conducted in Finland demonstrates that treatment selection based on results from drug sensitivity testing of patients' cells can be clinically useful in patients with aggressive hematological ...
Nov 17, 2021
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In an unexpected discovery, Georgetown University Medical Center researchers have identified what appears to be a significant vascular defect in patients with moderately severe Parkinson's disease. The finding could help ...
Nov 12, 2021
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Even within a single patient with cancer, there is a vast diversity of individual tumor cells, which display distinct behaviors related to growth, metastasis, and responses to chemotherapy. To carry out these behaviors, each ...
Nov 11, 2021
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Dasatinib, a drug that often is used to treat certain types of leukemia, may have antidiabetic effects comparable to medications used to treat diabetes, and with more research may become a novel therapy for diabetic patients, ...
Nov 9, 2021
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Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is the second most common leukemia diagnosed in children. It is hard to treat and can be fatal in some cases. While there have been some recent successes with genetically targeted therapies for ...
Nov 5, 2021
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The journal Oncotarget has published "Pim kinase inhibitor co-treatment decreases alternative non-homologous end-joining DNA repair and genomic instability induced by topoisomerase 2 inhibitors in cells with FLT3 internal ...
Nov 2, 2021
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Inositol is a sugar required for cells to survive. Most cells either get it from the bloodstream or make it themselves. Since there is plenty of inositol available, some cancer cells decide to stop making it. Cold Spring ...
Oct 27, 2021
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Personalization, something made especially for you, can make everything better, from the clothes you wear to the car you drive. Now, the type of medical treatment you receive can also be personalized.
Oct 1, 2021
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Mount Sinai researchers have developed a therapy that shows promise against a deadly pediatric leukemia. The small-molecule therapy was highly effective in fighting a type of acute myeloid leukemia in both in vitro and in ...
Sep 29, 2021
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