A new immunotherapy target for colorectal cancer

An international research team, led by scientists from Yale University, has identified a new immunotherapy target for treating colorectal cancer, developing an antibody that successfully reduces tumor formation in animal models. Though the antibody still needs to be tested in humans, it could eventually be used as a new immunotherapy inhibitor to treat colorectal and 

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X-ray laser puts Alzheimer’s proteins in new light

An international team of scientists has developed a new experimental technique that uses X-ray lasers to better analyze the structure of amyloids, large filamentous biomolecules implicated in neurodegenerative diseases such as Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s. Their method, recently outlined in the journal Nature Communications, opens up the ability to examine individual amyloid fibrils, the constituents of 

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