Treatment Eradicated Tumors in 14 of 16 Patients With Advanced Leukemia in Study By Ron Winslow (The Wall Street Journal) – A technique to genetically modify a patient’s own immune cells eradicated tumors in 14 of 16 patients with advanced leukemia—at least for a time—in a study that adds to growing enthusiasm for efforts to … Continued
By Lauren Pecorino, PhD (The Huffington Post) – I may have written my book Why Millions Survive Cancer: The Successes of Science a little too early. In this book I compiled evidence that progress was being made in the field of cancer.
By Gina Kolata (The New York Times) – The National Institutes of Health, 10 large drug companies and seven nonprofit organizations announced an unconventional partnership on Tuesday intended to speed up development of drugs to treat Alzheimer’s disease, Type 2 diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and lupus.
(Reuters) – In experiments that could open a new era in stem cell biology, scientists have found a simple way to reprogram mature animal cells back into an embryonic-like state that allows them to generate many types of tissue.
By Melanie Grayce West (The Wall Street Journal) – An influx of donations this month to support cancer research is positioning New York as a premier location for scientists at a time when major advances are happening in cancer treatment, but fewer public resources are available to study the deadly disease. Read the full article.
(JAMA) – With 14 000 federal scientists returning to the National Institutes of Health (NIH) to salvage research disrupted by the recent government shutdown, they and their academic colleagues face new uncertainties surrounding whether Congress will reach a budget compromise and whether sequester cuts will continue.