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Treating the Prostate with Radiotherapy Improves Survival
Treating the prostate with radiotherapy alongside standard treatment led to a 11 percent increase in survival for some men with advanced prostate cancer, shows trial.
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Electronic Medical Records Show Promise in Reducing Unnecessary Testing
Upon implementing electronic medical record-based interventions, Boston Medical Center reduced unnecessary diagnostic testing and increased the use of postoperative order sets, two markers of providing high-value medical care.
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The Building Blocks of an Electronic Brain
Computer bits are binary, with a value of 0 or 1. By contrast, neurons in the brain can have all kinds of different internal states, depending on the input that they received. This allows the brain to process information in a more energy-efficient manner than a computer. A new study hopes to bring the two closer together.
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Immune Therapy Shows Promise for Ankylosing Spondylitis
Patients who have not benefited from standard therapy for ankylosing spondylitis (AS), a chronic inflammatory disease characterized by back pain and sacroiliac-joint damage, may soon have another option.
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Making Custom-designed Natural Products
Microorganisms often assemble natural products similar to industrial assembly lines. Certain enzymes, non-ribosomal peptide synthetases (NRPS) play a key role in this process. Biotechnologists have now discovered how these enzymes interact with each other, bringing them one step closer to their goal of engineering peptide natural products.
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5.1 Million Dollar Funding Boost for Blinding Retinal Conditions
A $5.1 million grant has been awarded from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine to advance the development of a novel therapy for blinding retinal conditions.
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Drug Could Sustain Oxygen-Starved Hearts
In new studies a novel oxygen-delivery therapeutic restored the function of oxygen-starved heart tissue in an animal model of global hypoxia. Unlike its experimental predecessors, the new drug does not appear to cause systemic side effects or overcorrect with excessive blood oxygenation, which can itself be toxic. Instead, the new drug delivers its precious oxygen cargo only to the tissues that need it most.
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Immunotherapy Success for Triple-Negative Breast Cancer
New research has shown that by using a combination of immunotherapy and chemotherapy the body’s own immune system can be tuned to attack triple-negative breast cancer, extending survival by up to ten months.
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Functioning 3D Human Neural Networks Developed From Stem Cells
This 3D neuro-model could help uncover early stage biomarkers of disease, in turn supporting earlier diagnosis and improving understanding of disease progression.
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Fat Fuels Aggressive Brain Cancers
Fat is powering tumour growth in brain cancer, finds a new study by Cardiff University and the University of Florida.
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