News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2014
Self-assembling nanoparticles may help physicians diagnose cancers earlier, according to a study published in Angewandte Chemie.
The nanoparticles ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has approved an intravenous immunoglobulin product (octagam 10%) for the treatment...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 18, 2014
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Investigators say they’ve discovered the genetic defect that underlies STING-associated vasculopathy with onset in infancy ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2014
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In recreating the structure of prothrombin, researchers have improved their understanding of how the clotting factor functions...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2014
chemo to a cancer patient
Credit: Rhoda Baer
The nursing workforce in the US has grown substantially in recent years, and this is only partly due ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2014
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A new model suggests we should be targeting cancers’ weaknesses instead of their strengths.
An article in BioEssays proposes that c...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 17, 2014
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A new assay can be used to determine if a product actually contains the antimalarial drug artesunate, according to a paper published in...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 16, 2014
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Investigators have identified biological signatures in lymphoma cells that can be traced back to the original oncogene.
T...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 16, 2014
Credit: Максим Кукушкин
Immunosignaturing can allow for early detection of multiple myeloma and a range of other cancers, according to research pub...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 16, 2014
engulfed dying cells (purple)
Credit: Toru Komatsu
A two-pronged approach can prompt phagocytosis in inert cells, according to a paper published i...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 16, 2014
Credit: Rhoda Baer
A new report suggests recent budget cuts to federal health programs in the US have had some negative consequences for hematology...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2014
stem cells to form endothelium
(green), then blood cells (red)
Credit: Irina Elcheva
and Akhilesh Kumar
Researchers have reported a new method f...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2014
Scientists say they’ve generated a mouse model that supports the transplantation of human hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs), despite the species barrier...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2014
Preclinical research raises the prospect of more effective treatments for cachexia, a profound wasting of fat and muscle that can increase the risk of...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: July 15, 2014
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The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is alerting healthcare professionals not to use sterile drugs produced by Unique Pha...
