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Tag: Cancer
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Cancer vaccine shows durable immune effects
Researchers at Harvard Medical School and affiliated institutions have shown that a personalized cancer vaccine that is specific to an individual’s tumor has lasting effects, detecting vaccine-related immune system changes years after the vaccine was given.
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Double benefits for heart-healthy lifestyle
The risk of future cancers was lowest among participants in a community-based observational study who had a heart-healthy lifestyle.
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‘A metabolic tug-of-war’
Researchers find that obesity allows cancer cells to outcompete tumor-killing immune cells in a battle for fuel in mice.
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Closing the gap
Mortality rate after cancer surgery drops during 10-year period, but gap persists between Black and white patients.
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Turning the problem of cancer metastasis into an opportunity
Delivering immune-stimulating nanoparticles to the lungs via red blood cells halts tumor growth in mice.
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COVID-19 and cancer
Study represents the most comprehensive scientific survey to date about the interrelationship between COVID-19 and cancer.
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Emily Balskus wins $1M Waterman Award
Emily Balskus has won the Alan T. Waterman Award, the National Science Foundation’s most prestigious prize for scientists under 40 in the United States.
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A new test method
A novel liquid biopsy method can detect kidney cancers with high accuracy, including small, localized tumors which are often curable but for which no early detection method exists.
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Stroke, heart-attack cases plummet during pandemic
A Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center study showed dramatic drops in hospital visits for heart attacks and stroke, which likely led to uncounted deaths at home during the COVID crisis. Perhaps more troubling is the potential for long-term damage to decades’ work to catch conditions in their earliest, most treatable stages.
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Mapping the cancer connection
A new study takes the most comprehensive look to date at the connection between the ancestry and the molecular makeup of cancer.
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Scientists map human protein interactions
Scientists produce a reference map of human protein interactions, releasing data helpful for understanding diseases including cancer and infectious diseases such as COVID-19.
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New blood test can detect wide range of cancers
In a study involving thousands of participants, a new blood test detected more than 50 types of cancer as well as their location within the body with a high degree of accuracy.
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Capabilities of CRISPR gene editing expanded
Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital have modified the gene editing system, making it possible to potentially target any location across the entire human genome.
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Drop in cancer deaths lifts U.S. life expectancy
A decline in cancer mortality was a prominent feature of recent good news about U.S. life expectancy. The Gazette spoke with the director of the Chan School’s Zhu Family Center for Global Cancer Prevention to understand why.
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The ‘right’ diet
Professor Emily Balskus and her team have identified an entirely new class of enzymes that degrade chemicals essential for neurological health, but also help digest foods like nuts, berries, and tea, releasing nutrients that may impact human health.
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A solid vaccine for liquid tumors
A new study presents an alternative treatment for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) that has the potential to eliminate AML cells completely.
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A better candidate for chemo delivery
A new technique called ELeCt (erythrocyte-leveraged chemotherapy) can transport drug-loaded nanoparticles into cancerous lung tissue by mounting them on the body’s own red blood cells.
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Campus & Community
Lab success, life goals
Dalton Brunson’s biology studies have led him to labs, research, and successes that he hopes keep him ever mindful of his commitment to expanding health care in rural areas.
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As the end nears, who’s in control?
Advocates and opponents of medical-aid-in-dying laws, also called physician-assisted death, gathered at Harvard Medical School for a two-day conference organized by the HMS Center for Bioethics.
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Vitamin D may slow progression of metastatic colorectal cancer
The first randomized clinical trial of vitamin D in patients with metastatic colorectal cancer found that high doses of supplements combined with chemotherapy delayed disease progression.
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Longevity and anti-aging research: ‘Prime time for an impact on the globe’
Research into extending humanity’s healthy lifespan has been progressing rapidly in recent years. In February, a group of aging and longevity scientists founded a nonprofit to foster the work and serve as a resource for governments and businesses looking to understand the potentially far-reaching implications of a population that lives significantly longer, healthier lives.
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Interaction between immune factors can trigger cancer
Harvard researchers found that interaction between immune factors triggers cancer-promoting chronic inflammation, setting the stage for the development of skin cancer associated with chronic dermatitis and colorectal cancer in patients with colitis.
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Microbial manufacturing
Emily Balskus and a team of researchers untangled how soil bacteria are able to manufacture streptozotocin, an antibiotic and anti-cancer compound.
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A gathering to battle cancer
Amid projections that global cancer rates will skyrocket, researchers from around the country gathered at Harvard Monday to share their latest findings and to launch a center whose aim is to boost cancer early detection and prevention.
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Study signals a limit to cancer’s complexity
New findings on cancer driver mutations creates hope for targeted therapy. “It appears there is a limit to cancer’s complexity,” says one of the study’s researchers, Martin Nowak of Harvard University.
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Campus & Community
Undergrad and Radcliffe fellow bond over bones
Faced with a failed bone graft, undergrad Linh Nam ’20 connects with a Radcliffe Fellow whose work could revolutionize the science of bone replacement.
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Hitchhiking his way to better drug delivery
Researchers set out to develop a system that could help prevent nanoparticles from being cleared from the blood before they get to their target tissues. Called the “hitchhiking method,” and it’s found to work in human lungs, where a full 41 percent of the nanoparticles introduced into blood were deposited into the lung.
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Flight attendants have higher rates of breast, uterine, other cancers
U.S. flight attendants have a higher prevalence of several forms of cancer, including breast, uterine, and cervical, when compared with the general public, according to research from the Harvard Chan School.
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Survey of oncologists finds knowledge gap on medical marijuana
Harvard psychiatrist Ilana Braun found a knowledge gap on medical marijuana in a survey of oncologists nationwide.
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Before cancer kills, it cheats
Evolutionary biologist Athena Aktipis of Arizona State University delivered a lecture titled “Why Cancer is Everywhere” at the Harvard Museum of Natural History.
