Content by University College London
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New Drug Combination Offers Hope for Men with Advanced Prostate Cancer
A new drug combination could significantly delay the progression of a life-threatening form of prostate cancer in men with specific genetic mutations
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New Genes and Loci Linked to Depression Revealed
More multi-ancestry genome-wide studies can accelerate drug and treatment development for mental health conditions
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Click Chemistry Helps Create Sialidase-Based Anticancer Therapy
Study opens up new possibilities for how cutting-edge cancer immunotherapies might be built in future
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Immunotherapy Improves Long-Term Survival in NSCLC Patients
Phase 3 trial establishes safety and overall survival rate of treatment with atezolizumab for non-small cell lung cancer
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Brain Networks Involved in Epileptic Seizures Identified
Surgically disconnecting specific networks in the brain may help patients live epilepsy-free for a longer time
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Personalizing Whole Genome Sequencing Doubles Diagnosis of Rare Diseases
The personalized approach increased the diagnostic rate from 16.7 percent to 31.4 percent
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App That Detects Jaundice in Babies a Success in First Major Clinical Trial
The team tested more than 300 babies with the app, which quantified the yellowness of the white part of the eye
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Novel Tool Counts T Cells, Helps Predict Patient Response to Cancer Therapy
Quantifying T cell infiltration from DNA sequencing provides greater predictive power of patient response to treatment
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Phone Swabs Can Accurately Detect COVID-19
The method detected the COVID-19 virus on the phones of 81 to 100 percent of contagious people with a high viral load
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Heat Treatment May Make Chemotherapy More Effective
Heating up cancer cells while targeting them with chemotherapy was more effective than the chemotherapy alone
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AI-Supported Test Predicts Eye Disease Three Years before Symptoms
A pioneering new eye test may predict wet AMD, a leading cause of severe vision loss, before symptoms develop
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