Investigators at the University of Cambridge, in the United Kingdom, announce the creation of a new drug that can be used to treat one of the most common forms of blood cancer, mixed-lineage leukemia (MLL). The condition oftentimes affects babies.
In a paper the team published in the October 2 issue of the top sc... |
3 October 2011
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University of California, Santa Cruz researchers have found a key molecule that can establish blood stem cells in their niche within the bone marrow, discovery that could significantly improve the safety and efficiency of bone marrow transplants.Hematopoietic stem cells – the active ingredients of bone marrow t... |
7 January 2011
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German scientists at Charite-University Medicine in Berlin reported that they may have cured a man of HIV infection.This announcement divided researchers into two camps: those optimistic about the whole thing and those saying that this method is not really worth it. The study started three years ago, in February 2007... |
15 December 2010
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A team at the University of California, San Francisco discovered a direct link between a rare form of childhood leukemia called juvenile myelomonocytic leukemia, or JMML, and an inherited genetic mutation.JMML is a rare type of blood cancer, very aggressive, that develops in bone marrow. Its main feature is an abnorm... |
9 August 2010
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Imatinib is the standard treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia (CML). It is currently sold as Gleevec by Novartis and it was a real revolution back in 2001. Still, one of its main problems is resistance. Even if it is relatively rare (between 2 and 19 percent of cases), it can provoke biological and psychological pr... |
29 July 2010
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A collaboration of scientists from the VIB (the Flanders Institute for Biotechnology), the Katholieke Universiteit (K.U.) Leuven, both in Belgium, and the Hopital Saint-Louis, in Paris, France, has recently determined the nature of one of the most important factors determining the onset of acute lymphoblastic leukemi... |
18 May 2010
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A beautiful nine-year-old girl from Southlake, Texas, got married a few days ago, in what parents said it was her final wish before she died. Jayla Cooper is suffering from late-stage leukemia, and doctors say that she only has a couple of weeks more to live. The little girl knows this and she asked her parents to do... |
27 February 2009
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Neuroblastoma, a form of cancer that manifests mostly in infants, affects about 600 newborns in the United States every year. Doctors suspected that a few specific genes were responsible for the development of the disease, but until now they had no solid leads to follow in their research. An international team manage... |
16 October 2008
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The price of vanity in the modern, ever-changing era in which we live may be even higher than we can imagine. A study publish a short while ago warns men and women that using hair dye more than nine times a year increases by 60% the risk of developing chronic lymphocytic leukaemia, which is a form of cancer of the bl... |
9 May 2008
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Leukemia is one of the main killer cancers in children. In the last 50 years, medical advance has boosted survival rate from 0 % to 90 %, but the aggressive chemotherapy comes with a high price caused by the secondary effects. Still, hope comes with a new research published in the journal Science and made on four-yea... |
18 January 2008
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YouTube was recently the only hope for life for a N.H. woman diagnosed with leukemia. Leigh Buckley, a 32-year-old mother of two, fights against leukemia since January when the doctors diagnosed her with this deadly disease. Since the terrible announcement was confirmed, Leigh's friends decided to organize two l... |
28 March 2007
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