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of General Medical Sciences
By analyzing the whole genomes of 3-year-old twin sisters—one healthy and one with multi-lineage leukemia (MLL)—researc...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 9, 2014
Credit: UC San Diego
School of Medicine
Scientists say they have identified a protein that broadly regulates how genetic information transcr...
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Credit: Lawrence Jackson
Leaders from the US Senate and House of Representatives have agreed on a plan to replace the Medicare sustainable growth r...
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Credit: Daniel E.
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(green), mitochondria (purple),
Golgi apparatus (red), and
peroxisomes (yellow) in a cell
Credit: Maier Avendano
A new microscopy method allows ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 7, 2014
Credit: James Gathany
New research indicates that, toward the end of the century, climate change may make tropical highland regions suitable breedi...
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oxygenator membranes
Credit: Kjell Hultenby
A newly developed antibody can prevent thrombosis without increasing the risk of bleeding in rabbits, ...
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with chemotherapy drugs
Credit: Bill Branson
A group of healthcare experts has created a “blueprint” for managing and preventing drug shortages.
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Credit: Linda Bartlett
Adding the alkylating agent cyclophosphamide to treatment with a monoclonal antibody (mAb) can overcome drug resistance in m...
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Credit: UAB Hospital
Scientists have found that a common polymer can help red blood cells (RBCs) survive storage at freezing temperatures, and it m...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 5, 2014
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted breakthrough therapy designation for the thrombopoietin receptor agonist eltrombopag (Promacta/R...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 5, 2014
Credit: CDC
Results of population-based research suggest that financial status may affect survival in patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) ...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 5, 2014
patient and her father
Credit: Rhoda Baer
The Affordable Care Act (ACA) includes provisions that may make it easier for US cancer patients to part...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 4, 2014
Credit: Miltenyi Biotec
The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has granted approval for a device system that can prevent graft-vs-host disease (...
News Author: HT Staff Publish date: February 4, 2014
Credit: Lance Liotta
Researchers have found evidence to suggest that methylation patterns in hematopoietic stem cells (HSCs) can be used to determi...
