| Please click here to view this in your browser. | | |  | | | |  | | | As marijuana legalization has expanded to many states in the United States, understanding the full impact of cannabis use on patients experiencing health issues, including cancer, has gained new importance. Marijuana, the dried flowers, leaves ... |
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| | |  | | | The trillions of microbial cells in our gastrointestinal tract have their own genomes and metabolic products, many of which can affect human biology, and some of them can be beneficial, while others are harmful. Researchers have now shown that a toxin, which is generated by a common bacterium that contaminates ... |
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| | |  | | | Vaccines have advanced the field of health and medicine throughout the last century. They are commonly given before a disease can occur to expose individuals to invading pathogens. Vaccines given as a preventative treatment helps the immune system build an immune response against disease that the person may ... |
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| | |  | | | Immunotherapy has changed the way physicians treat patients and has improved standard of care for many different tumors. Unfortunately, solid tumors are still treated with limited efficacy. In many cases, solid tumors are not recognized by the immune system and progress throughout the body. Tumor growth unnoticed ... |
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| | |  | | | A large comprehensive research study published in The Lancet Oncology highlights the increasing incidence of early-onset colorectal cancer (CRC) in adults under 50, compared to older adults. The researchers used data collected from the World Health ... |
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| | | | | Ulf Gyllensten, Ph.D. - Ida Grundberg, Ph.D. - Keynote Presentation: Precision Diagnosis of Ovarian Cancer – Identification of Protein Biomarkers that Separate Benign from Malignant Tumors Ulf Gyllensten, Senior Professor at the Department of Immunology, Genetics and Pathology, Uppsala University Ovarian cancer has the highest mortality among gynecological cancers, with surgery often used for final diagnosis. Accurate ... |
| | | | | Dr. Vijay Kuchroo - Director, The Gene Lay Institute of Immunology and Inflammation</br> Brigham and Women's Hospital, Harvard Medical School Expression of co-inhibitory receptors or “checkpoint” molecules, such as CTLA-4 and PD-1, on effector T cells is a key mechanism for ensuring immune homeostasis. Dysregulated expression of co-inhibitory receptors on CD4+ T cells promotes autoimmunity while sustained overexpression on CD8+ T cells promotes T cell dysfunction or exhaustion, leading to impaired ability to clear chronic ... |
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