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New device for low-cost single-cell analysis identifies fibroblast subtypes in RA patients

26-Feb-2018 - Single-cell analysis holds enormous potential to study how individual cells influence disease and respond to treatment, but the lack of cost-effective and user-friendly instrumentation remains challenging. As described in a study researchers at the New York Genome Center (NYGC) and New York ...

internal medicine rheumatology fibroblasts

Changes in mouse breast tissue after exposure to fracking chemicals

07-Feb-2018 - In a study, environmental scientists led by Laura Vandenberg at the University of Massachusetts Amherst report that they observed changes in mammary gland development of female mice exposed during early development to the chemicals used in unconventional oil and gas (UOG) extraction - including ...

internal medicine endocrinology contamination
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Multiple roles of glucose metabolism in platelet activation and survival identified

07-Aug-2017 - Platelets, the cells in blood that enable clotting, are highly reliant on their ability to metabolize glucose, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Iowa. The findings may have implications for understanding the increased risk of thrombosis--blood clots inside blood ...

internal medicine blood blood clots
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Imaging tracer allows early assessment of abdominal aortic aneurysm risk

04-Aug-2017 - Yale University researchers have developed a way in which medical imaging could potentially be used to assess a patient's rupture risk for abdominal aortic aneurysm. Delaying surgical treatment can be life-threatening, and this new type of imaging could allow physicians to diagnose disease and ...

internal medicine abdominal aortic aneurysm aneurysms

Detecting blood clot risk using biomarkers

17-Mar-2017 - Cancer is one of the hardest medical conditions to overcome, and for those who do so, the battle often does not stop at remission. Many cancers predispose patients to develop blood clots, particularly patients who are diagnosed at a late stage, which often complicates their treatment and reduces ...

internal medicine oncology biomarkers
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New driver, target in advanced mucosal melanoma

16-Mar-2017 - Not all melanomas are created equal. While most melanomas appear on the skin as the result of sun exposure, a small subset of melanomas arise spontaneously from mucosal tissues. And while targeted treatments and immunotherapies have dramatically improved the prognosis for many patients with ...

internal medicine oncology cancer cells

Cardiac imaging detects serious residual septal defects during child open heart surgery

19-Dec-2016 - Using cardiac imaging during heart surgery can detect serious residual holes in the heart that may occur when surgeons repair a child's heart defect, and offers surgeons the opportunity to close those holes during the same operation. Pediatric cardiology experts say using this tool, called ...

internal medicine cardiology cardiovascular diseases

Investigating kidney biomarkers to track lupus

16-Dec-2016 - Lupus, a chronic autoimmune disease, can wreak havoc on an affected individual's body through inflammation, pain and even damage of the skin, joints and organs. To try to better understand how the disease begins and progresses, researchers at the University of Michigan investigated whether kidney ...

internal medicine nephrology rheumatology

Precision medicine test helps guide breast cancer patients' chemotherapy decision

25-Oct-2016 - One of the earliest widespread applications of precision medicine in cancer care is helping patients and physicians decide whether chemotherapy is needed, a new study finds. Researchers looked at a test available to help assess the risk of breast cancer recurrence and whether chemotherapy is ...

internal medicine oncology breast cancer

Scientists identify how repair protein finds DNA damage

10-Oct-2016 - Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) have demonstrated how Rad4, a protein involved in DNA repair, scans the DNA in a unique pattern of movement called "constrained motion" to efficiently find structural faults in DNA. ...

internal medicine oncology DNA
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