When prostate cancer advances to the point of spreading, the larger and more stubborn tumors develop cells that suppress the body’s immune response – and defeat doctors’ attempts to launch an attack on it, experts said. But through chemoimmunotherap ...
Get today's drug discovery & development headlines and news - Sign up now! Taking aspirin reduces a person’s risk of colorectal cancer, but the molecular mechanisms involved have remained unknown until a recent discovery by The Hormel Institute, ...
While personalized medicine has been a goal for some time, there have been several obstacles. Although there has been an explosion in genomic data, the corresponding clinical utility for this data has been slow to be validated. Data from tissue image ...
Researchers have found that the proteins that control the progression of Alzheimer’s are linked in a pathway, and that drugs targeting this pathway may be a way of treating the disease, which affects 40 million people worldwide. The findings are publ ...
A research team led by Portland State University biology professor Ken Stedman has unlocked the structure of an unusual virus that lives in volcanic hot springs. The discovery could pave the way for better drugs to treat Human Immunodeficiency Virus ...