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Gauss Surgical has announced that the company has received U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 510(k) clearance for its Triton Canister App, the second core product in its Triton System™...
Old blood as good as fresh in patients with life threatening illnesses
3/18/2015
Just like milk and many other foods, blood used for transfusions is perishable.
Cancer drug may reduce bleeding in patients with rare genetic disorder, HHT
3/18/2015
A cancer drug that helps keep tumors from growing blood vessels may help patients with a rare genetic condition in which malformed vessels increase their risk for bleeding and anemia.
Penn vet team points to new colon cancer culprit
3/18/2015
Colon cancer is a heavily studied disease -- and for good reason. It is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and its numbers are on the rise, from 500,000 deaths in 1990 to...
Exploring the fundamental mechanism by which a cell-surface receptor transmits its signal, an international team of Ludwig researchers and their colleagues has established proof of concept for an...
MDC cancer researchers identify new function in an old acquaintance
3/18/2015
Enzyme shuts off protection program senescenceCells have two different programs to safeguard them from getting out of control and developing cancer. One of them is senescence (biological aging).
New possibilities for the treatment of breast cancer arise, with the help of mathematics
3/18/2015
A means of reprogramming a flawed immune response into an efficient anti-tumoral one was brought to light by the results of a translational trial relating to breast cancer.
Routine clot removal after heart attack not beneficial, may have risk
3/18/2015
The largest study ever of its kind, led by researchers from McMaster University and the University of Toronto, has found that a routine strategy of blood clot removal during treatment for heart...
Stanford scientists change human leukemia cells into harmless immune cells
3/18/2015
Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have discovered that when a certain aggressive leukemia is causing havoc in the body, the solution may be to force the cancer cells to grow...
Molecular ruler sets bacterial needle length
3/18/2015
A step in understanding how microbes infect target cellsOn the left is an electron microscope image of an injectisome, the nanoscopic needle that salmonella and certain other bacteria use to...