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Tiny nanoparticles offer significant potential in detecting and treating disease

Exosomes – tiny biological nanoparticles which transfer information between cells – offer significant potential in detecting and treating disease, the most comprehensive overview so far of research in the field has concluded. Areas which could benefit include cancer treatment and regenerative medicine, say Dr Steven Conlan from Swansea University, Dr Mauro Ferrari of Houston Methodist […]

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New biomarker assay detects neuroblastoma with greater sensitivity

Investigators at The Saban Research Institute of Children’s Hospital Los Angeles have developed and tested a new biomarker assay for quantifying disease and detecting the presence of neuroblastoma even when standard evaluations yield negative results for the disease.  In a study, led by Araz Marachelian, MD, of the Children’s Center for Cancer and Blood Diseases, […]

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Tourette Syndrome risk increases in people with genetic copy variations

An international team that just conducted the largest study of Tourette Syndrome has identified genetic abnormalities that are the first definitive risk genes for the disorder. Although Tourette has long been thought to have a genetic basis — because the syndrome tends to appear in families — before now no definitive risk genes had been […]

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Test is first to identify patients with completely benign pancreatic abnormalities

When performed in tandem, two molecular biology laboratory tests distinguish, with near certainty, pancreatic lesions that mimic early signs of cancer but are completely benign. The lesions almost never progress to cancer, so patients may be spared unnecessary pancreatic cancer screenings or operations. The two-test combination is the only one to date that can accurately […]

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Existing drugs could benefit patients with bone cancer, genetic study suggests

A subgroup of patients with osteosarcoma – a form of bone cancer – could be helped by an existing drug, suggest scientists from the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute and their collaborators at University College London Cancer Institute and the Royal National Orthopaedic Hospital NHS Trust. In the largest genetic sequencing study of osteosarcoma to date, […]

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Seven new DNA regions linked to kidney cancer risk

Researchers have found seven new single-letter changes to DNA that are linked to an increased chance of developing renal cell carcinoma.  People with these variants are more likely to develop renal cell carcinoma, through the effect they have on nearby genes. The study team, including researchers from The Institute of Cancer Research, London, have recently […]

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Improved accuracy when testing cancer drugs

Method to more accurately test anti-cancer drugs have now been developed at the Sahlgrenska Academy, University of Gothenburg. The method paves the way to much earlier assessment of who benefits from a specific drug and who does not. “It is common for cancer patients to be prescribed drugs that fail to help them, often with […]

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A blood test developed to detect a rare neurological disease

AP-HP teams in collaboration with researchers from the ICM (Inserm / CNRS / UPMC), and the start-up Metafora Biosystems, from the CNRS, have just developed a blood diagnostic test for a neurological disease rare but treatable, De Vivo’s disease. It has been tested on 30 patients with this disease that induces neurological deficits such as […]

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Real time PCR test for HPV

An opportunity exists to require the rights to a real time PCR test for thirteen oncogenic HPV types (Jenkins et al, J Virol Methods 2013). Interested parties should contact: Lawyer Maria TorvundUniongata 18 3732 Skien NorwayTel: +47 35 53 20 00Fax: +47 35 53 20 01 advokat@mariatorvund.no not later than 01.09.2017

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A new test to detect reliably an autoimmune disease

In autoimmune diseases, the immune system wrongly identifies its "enemy", and produces antibodies that attack the patient’s own cells. One of these diseases, the anti-phospholipid antibody syndrome (APS), is still poorly understood, even though it can have serious consequences. APS is caused by antibodies circulating in the blood plasma that are directed against a protein, […]