How stable manure protects against allergies
Improved hygiene has largely eliminated infectious diseases from everyday life. There is, however, a downside to this progress: the number of allergies is growing steadily.
Monthly Archives: March 2017
Melanoma: Mutations that alter immune system to promote tumor growth identified
Scientists show that mutations in ATR - a regulatory protein that normally repairs DNA - alter the immune system to favor tumor growth in some melanomas.
Vaccination may reduce cases of serious shingles complications in seniors
Immunization can significantly lower the risk of serious complications from shingles among older adults, suggest findings from a new study published in Clinical Infectious Diseases and available...
‘Red hair’ gene variant may underlie association between melanoma and Parkinson’s disease
A gene variant that produces red hair and fair skin in humans and in mice, which increases the risk of the dangerous skin cancer melanoma, may also contribute to the known association between...
Absent tumor-suppressors allow melanoma to thwart immunotherapy
It's what's missing in the tumor genome, not what's mutated, that thwarts treatment of metastatic melanoma with immune checkpoint blockade drugs, researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson...