health
The potential of PD-L2 inhibitors for cancer treatment
Posted in Medicine, Science on 27th Jan, 2024
by Alex Muller
An international team of scientists have elucidated how cancer cells that have become senescent following chemotherapy activate the PD-L2 protein to protect themselves from the immune system while recruiting immune suppressor cells.
Why Don’t Cancer Immunotherapies Work for Everyone?
Posted in Medicine, Science on 26th Jan, 2024
by Alex Muller
A multi-institutional study co-authored by University of Texas at Arlington scientists uncovered a mechanism by which cancer cells prevent the immune system from activating and attacking the cancerous invaders.
Imperial research breakthrough could spare brain cancer patients risky surgery
Posted in Medicine, Science on 26th Jan, 2024
by Alex Muller
A simple blood test could help diagnose patients with the deadliest form of brain cancer, sparing them from undergoing invasive, highly-risky surgery.
NHS offers first drug targeting advanced breast cancers driven by BRCA gene mutations
Posted in Medicine, Science on 26th Jan, 2024
by Alex Muller
Talazoparib (Talzenna) will become the NHS’s first targeted treatment for advanced breast cancers caused by mutations to BRCA genes
Breakthrough research links deformed proteins with schizophrenia.
Posted in Science on 29th Dec, 2023
by Alex Muller
The study’s discovery of deformed proteins is consistent with a theory of schizophrenia that says the illness is related to abnormal brain development.