When astronauts return to Earth, their altitude isn't the only thing that drops - their blood pressure does too. This condition, known as orthostatic hypotension, occurs in up to half of those astronauts on short-term missions (two weeks or less) and in nearly all astronauts after long-term missions (four to six months)...
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have discovered a unique immune gene signature that can predict the presence of microscopic lymph node-like structures in metastatic melanoma...
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have discovered a unique immune gene signature that can predict the presence of microscopic lymph node-like structures in metastatic melanoma...
Towards A Better Treatment For Head And Neck Cancers?
10/27/2012
Researchers from the Western Australian Institute for Medical Research (WAIMR) have taken an important step towards improved treatment of head and neck cancers with new work that has been published by the journal PLOS ONE...
Researchers Uncover New Target For Cancer Research
10/27/2012
In a new paper released in Nature, BioFrontiers Institute scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder, Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand, detailed a new target for anti-cancer drug development that is sitting at the ends of our DNA...
High European Mortality Rates Due to Sepsis Care
10/26/2012
There are significant differences between the way the United States and Europe take care of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, according to a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Severe sepsis is a potentially fatal illness which results from an over-reaction of the immune system to an infection, which may progress into septic shock...
Gene Associated With Inflammation In The Aorta Could Lead To Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
10/26/2012
A gene that contributes to cancer and cardiovascular development may be the cause of swelling in the most common type of aortic aneurysm, and could be the key to treatment. This new study, published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, is the first of its kind to show Notch 1 signaling is triggered in abdominal aortic aneurysmal tissue in humans and mice...
High European Mortality Rates Due to Sepsis Care
10/26/2012
There are significant differences between the way the United States and Europe take care of patients with severe sepsis and septic shock, according to a study in The Lancet Infectious Diseases. Severe sepsis is a potentially fatal illness which results from an over-reaction of the immune system to an infection, which may progress into septic shock...
Gene Associated With Inflammation In The Aorta Could Lead To Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm
10/26/2012
A gene that contributes to cancer and cardiovascular development may be the cause of swelling in the most common type of aortic aneurysm, and could be the key to treatment. This new study, published in Arteriosclerosis, Thrombosis, and Vascular Biology, is the first of its kind to show Notch 1 signaling is triggered in abdominal aortic aneurysmal tissue in humans and mice...
Advanced Melanoma Tumors Eradicated In Mouse Model
10/26/2012
Cancers arise in the body all the time. Most are nipped in the bud by the immune response, not least by its T cells, which detect telltale molecular markers - or antigens - on cancer cells and destroy them before they grow into tumors. Cancer cells, for their part, evolve constantly to evade such assassination. Those that succeed become full-blown malignancies...