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Research reveals potential treatment strategy for bone marrow failure synd
Updated : 3 years ago IST
The spongy tissue found inside bones called bone marrow is in charge of producing platelets, white blood cells, and red blood cells. Anemia, blood malignancies, and dangerous infections are all more likely to occur as a result of bone marrow failure syndromes.
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Pungent ginger compound puts immune cells on heightened alert: Research
Updated : 3 years ago IST
Ginger is known for activating the immune system. This argument is now supported by new findings from the Leibniz Center for Food Systems Biology at the Technical University of Munich. Little doses of a spicy ginger component heightened white blood cell alertness in laboratory testing. This
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Researchers use MRI data to predict brain tumor progression
Updated : 3 years, 1 month ago IST
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have created a computational model to predict the growth of deadly brain tumours more accurately.
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Inflammation levels are linked to severity of blood cancer: Study
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
A recent study finds that severe inflammation reduces the body's ability to eliminate malignant blood cells in persons with acute myeloid leukaemia (AML).
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Glass frogs become transparent by hiding red blood cells in their liver, r
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
According to the findings of a recent study, glassfrogs make themselves transparent while they rest by taking red blood cells from circulation and concealing them in their livers.
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Glass frogs achieve pack red blood cells in mirror-coated liver: Research
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New research shows that glass frogs known for their highly transparent undersides and muscles perform their "disappearing acts" by stowing away nearly all of their red blood cells into their uniquely reflective livers.
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Delaying antibiotics for neutropenic fever may not affect survival of canc
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
Neutropenia--low levels of white blood cells called neutrophils, which fight infection--develops in more than 80 per cent of patients who receive chemotherapy for blood cancer. It occurs because chemotherapy destroys neutrophils along with tumour cells.
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Glass frogs achieve transparency by packing red blood cells into mirror-co
Updated : 3 years, 2 months ago IST
New research shows that glass frogs known for their highly transparent undersides and muscles perform their "disappearing acts" by stowing away nearly all of their red blood cells into their uniquely reflective livers. The study, led by scientists at the American Museum of Natural History an
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Experimental cancer therapy shows 73 pc success rate in trials: Study
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
The treatment, which is referred to as a "bispecific antibody," binds to both T cells and multiple myeloma cells and instructs the T cells, which are white blood cells that can be used to fight off diseases
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Scientists reveal first close-up look at bats' immune response to live inf
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Scientists at Duke-NUS Medical School and colleagues in Singapore have sequenced the response to viral infection in colony-bred cave nectar bats (Eonycteris spelaea) at single-cell resolution. Published in the journal Immunity, the findings contribute to insights into bat immunity that could
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Research shows migraines caused by alterations in metabolite levels
Updated : 3 years, 3 months ago IST
Migraines are a pain in the head and in the hip pocket, but newly discovered genetic causes by QUT researchers could lead the way to new preventative drugs and therapies.
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Nanobots made from DNA could fight cancer by delivering drugs directly to
Updated : 3 years, 4 months ago IST
A team of Canadian researchers from Universite de Montreal has designed and validated a new class of drug transporters made of DNA that are 20,000 times smaller than a human hair and that could improve how cancers and other diseases are treated
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