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Medicine Diet + Exercise + Chemo = Increased Survival in Youth With Leukemia (Medicine) 1 Apr 20211 Apr 2021 Children's Hospital Los Angeles study finds risk of detectable cancer cells decreased by 70% after one month of treatment in patients with ALL Overweight children and adolescents receiving chemotherapy for…
Medicine Study Finds Why Some Cancer Drugs May be Ineffective (Medicine) 1 Apr 2021 A possible explanation for why many cancer drugs that kill tumor cells in mouse models won’t work in human trials has been found by researchers with The University of Texas…
Medicine Replacing What Was Lost: A Novel Cell Therapy for Type I Diabetes Mellitus (Medicine) 1 Apr 2021 Type I Diabetes Mellitus (T1D) is an autoimmune disorder leading to permanent loss of insulin-producing beta-cells in the pancreas. In a new study, researchers from The University of Tokyo developed…
Planetary Science NASA OSIRIS-REx’s Final Asteroid Observation Run (Planetary Science) 1 Apr 2021 NASA’s OSIRIS-REx mission is on the brink of discovering the extent of the mess it made on asteroid Bennu’s surface during last fall’s sample collection event. On Apr. 7, the…
Medicine U of A Team Identifies Protein That Blocks Body’s Ability to Clear Bad Cholesterol (Medicine) 1 Apr 2021 Researchers are now looking to develop a drug that will boost existing statin drugs to prevent heart disease. A team of researchers at the University of Alberta has uncovered a…
Neuroscience Disrupted Biochemical Pathway in the Brain Linked to Bipolar Disorder (Neuroscience) 1 Apr 2021 Bipolar disorder affects millions of Americans, causing dramatic swings in mood and, in some people, additional effects such as memory problems. While bipolar disorder is linked to many genes, each…
