In this interview, Dr. Núria Malats from the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) shares promising advances regarding the relationship between gut microbiota and pancreatic cancer, unveiling exciting possibilities for early detection and personalized treatment.
Northwestern Medicine investigators have identified a previously unknown regulator of tumor immune evasion, which may help improve the efficacy of current and future anti-tumor immunotherapies, according to recent findings published in the Journal of Clinical Investigation.
“The study provides a molecular insight into understanding why some cancer patients cannot be treated by the checkpoint blockade antitumor therapy, but others can,” said Deyu Fang, Ph.D., the Hosmer Allen Johnson Professor of Pathology and senior author of the study.
Antitumor immunotherapy is a type of cancer treatment that helps the immune system in fighting cancer and includes a range of therapy types, such as immune checkpoint inhibitors. Immune checkpoints help prevent the immune system from being too strong and eradicating other cells, including cancer cells.
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The forces reshaping labor markets will impact productivity, growth, inflation and deficits, creating a new set of winning and losing industries and countries.
Imperceptible to us, plants are surrounded by a fine mist of airborne compounds that they use to communicate and protect themselves. Kind of like smells, these compounds repel hungry herbivores and warn neighboring plants of incoming assailants.
Scientists have known about these plant defenses since the 1980s, detecting them in over 80 plant species since then. Now, a team of Japanese researchers has deployed real-time imaging techniques to reveal how plants receive and respond to these aerial alarms.
This was a big gap in our understanding of plant chatter: we knew how plants send messages, but not how they receive them.
In 2024, there is still a place for physical workspaces – but employers need to think carefully about when and how to use them.
By associate professor christhina candido and dr behnaz avazpour, university of melbourne; iva durakovic, UNSW and dr samin marzban, university of wollongong.
HaptX’s new technology uses tactile and force feedback to allow people to ‘feel’ virtual objects with high fidelity.
TechCrunch walked the floors of CES 2024 to find all the interesting transportation tech. Here are the biggest trends we spotted.
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