In a burst of jubilance at UCLA Health – an emotional release after months of pandemic trauma – frontline health care workers began receiving the Pfizer COVID-19 vaccinations on Wednesday
Researchers have identified a family of enzymes whose inhibition both protects neurons and encourages their growth, a pathway to potential new treatments for neurodegenerative diseases from Alzheimer’s to glaucoma.
Scientists have long known that therapies that target the cancer-driving MAPK pathway are only effective in a handful of cancers with specific mutations in a cancer gene called BRAF, and these cancers that initially respond to the therapy often end up developing resistance to the treatment, resulting in relapse for…
Bernard Thurman was referred to a personalized cancer therapy trial at Moores Cancer Center at UC San Diego Health, a collaboration with the La Jolla Institute for Immunology, the trial employs a patient’s immune cells — specifically tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) — to destroy cancer cells.
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