Tag: Cancer
Health: A non-invasive response to tumors
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In a very hopeful development in cancer research, scientists at the University of Michigan have shown that they can force a shrinkage of...
Health: The Latest Incarnation of the “War on Cancer” (ARPA-H)
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In mid March 2022, a new U.S. government agency came into existence, the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H). A spending bill...
Health: Of Mice, Men, and Certain Lung Cancers
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A researcher working at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center has made promising findings about the optimal treatment of certain lung cancer...
Health: A New Leukemia Treatment
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Researchers in the United Kingdom are at work on what they call CAR T-cell therapy obecabtagene autoleucel (obe-cel), for leukemia. The is part...
Health: New Strategies for the Treatment of Cancer
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Researchers affiliated with the faculty of medicine at the University of British Columbia, in Canada, say they have found a way to inhibit...
Health: Dante Labs Invests in Anti-Cancer Tech
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Last month Dante Labs, a New York based multinational biotech platform that seeks to "make the most advanced genomic technologies available to everyone,"...
Health: Roundup Settlement Deal in Doubt
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Bayer and class action attorneys have reached a framework for the settlement of a lawsuit regarding Roundup, the herbicide that Bayer inherited when...
Health: Acupuncture Among Cancer Survivors
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A March 2021 article in the Journal of the American Medical Association reports that there are two types of acupuncture therapy that work...
Health: Venture Capital and Cancer Screening
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XTX Ventures, a London based venture capital firm with expertise in machine learning and financial technology, has invested in a start-up that is...
Health: The 2020 Nobel Prizes, Medicine and Chemistry
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The Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2020 went to Harvey J. Alter, Michael Houghton, and Charles M. Rice for the discovery of the...