Half of all women experience a false positive mammogram after 10 years of annual breast cancer screening with 3D mammography, a UC Davis-led study estimates. This risk was lower for women who had mammograms every other year. 3D screening showed slightly lower false positive results than standard mammography.
UCI Health neuroscientists are testing a promising dopamine neuron stem-cell therapy to determine whether it reduces symptoms in patients with advanced Parkinson’s disease. In a first-in-human clinical trial, researchers are assessing the safety of dopamine-producing stem cells that are surgically implanted in the brain of patients whose Parkinson’s disease has…
In a Q&A, Hongwu Chen, the director of the Cancer Metabolism Initiative of the UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center, discussed how a special receptor protein (RORγ) impacts cancer growth and cholesterol synthesis. RORγ may be an effective target to treat cancer.
Researchers have launched a study to identify a potential cure for HIV. Using a new immunotherapy approach, researchers will use a patient's white blood cells and modify them so they can identify and target HIV cells to control the virus.
UC Davis Health is helping change precision medicine by participating in the ‘All of Us’ study. The NIH’s landmark release last week of nearly 100,000 gene sequences from diverse participants is set to change the landscape of genomics research.
