Neoadjuvant Nivolumab Shows Long-Term Benefit in Lung Cancer Patients
Study reports five-year survival outcomes. Patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were treated with neoadjuvant nivolumab had improved five-year recurrence-free and overall survival rates compared with historical outcomes. The research will be published today, February 1
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Scientists Warn That Fructose Could Drive Alzheimer’s Disease
Researchers say an evolutionary foraging instinct that relied on the sugar fructose, may now be fueling the formation of Alzheimer’s disease. An ancient human foraging instinct, fueled by fructose production in the brain, may hold clues to the development and possible treatment of Alzheimer’s dis
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One of my in-laws got dx'd at stage 4 recently and they canceled her chemo because she was eligible for some gene therapy. She's already back home and doing better. This stuff is insane. She was ready for hospice care and is suddenly better.Neoadjuvant Nivolumab Shows Long-Term Benefit in Lung Cancer Patients
Study reports five-year survival outcomes. Patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were treated with neoadjuvant nivolumab had improved five-year recurrence-free and overall survival rates compared with historical outcomes. The research will be published today, February 1scitechdaily.com
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Right? I mean, she'll probably get sick again because she's a person who obsessively goes non stop regardless of health, but cancer survival is starting to see a brighter future.that’s amazing
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Russia launches rescue ship to space station after leaks
Russia launched a rescue ship on Friday for two cosmonauts and a NASA astronaut whose original ride home sprang a dangerous leak while parked at the International Space Station. The new, empty Soyuz capsule should arrive at the orbiting lab on Sunday. The capsule leak in December was blamed on a...
N.S. researcher identifies first recorded case of an orca caring for pilot whale baby
A Halifax-based biologist who helped to document the first recorded case of an orca caring for the offspring of another species says the finding sheds light on a complex animal relationship.
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Neoadjuvant Nivolumab Shows Long-Term Benefit in Lung Cancer Patients
Study reports five-year survival outcomes. Patients with resectable non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) who were treated with neoadjuvant nivolumab had improved five-year recurrence-free and overall survival rates compared with historical outcomes. The research will be published today, February 1scitechdaily.com
My mother died of stage 4 neuroendocrine cancer (liver, lungs, bone, etc.)
It was a hail mary but they did try nivolumab. One of the last times we were in the hospital they did a chest x-ray of the large tumor in her lungs and the doctor sat there stumped because of how much the tumor had shrunk.
Group of Scientists Propose a New Driver of Alzheimer's Disease: Fructose
Alzheimer's disease remains incurable, despite the best efforts of scientists and a number of recent discoveries.
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Nasal Covid vaccine shows promise in early clinical trial
Nasal vaccines could provide better protection against infection by bolstering immunity right where the virus enters the body, but few have made it to human trials in the U.S.
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CDC warns about drug-resistant stomach bug deemed "serious public health threat"
Doctors have limited options to treat the "extensively drug-resistant" strains of Shigella bacteria.
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Research team delivers a new first in heart failure treatment using cell therapy
Physician-scientists at The Texas Heart Institute announced today the results of the largest cell therapy trial to date in patients with chronic heart failure due to low ejection fraction. The therapy benefited patients by improving the heart's pumping ability, as measured by ejection fraction...
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Colorectal cancer statistics, 2023.
Although overall CRC mortality continues to decline, this progress is tempered by a rapidly changing landscape of disease that foreshadows less favorable trends ahead. First, the CRC burden is shifting to younger individuals as cohorts born in the last one half of the 20th century who have elevated risk age; one in five new cases now occur in individuals in their early 50s or younger. Second, there is an overall shift to later stage disease, with more individuals now diagnosed at an advanced stage than in the mid-1990s before widespread screening. Finally, there is a shift from right-sided to left-sided tumors, despite higher efficacy for preventing the latter through screening, likely reflecting changes in underlying disease risk of unknown etiology.
Although overall CRC mortality continues to decline, this progress is tempered by a rapidly changing landscape of disease that foreshadows less favorable trends ahead. First, the CRC burden is shifting to younger individuals as cohorts born in the last one half of the 20th century who have elevated risk age; one in five new cases now occur in individuals in their early 50s or younger. Second, there is an overall shift to later stage disease, with more individuals now diagnosed at an advanced stage than in the mid-1990s before widespread screening. Finally, there is a shift from right-sided to left-sided tumors, despite higher efficacy for preventing the latter through screening, likely reflecting changes in underlying disease risk of unknown etiology.
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Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart
By Chloe Kim / BBC News, New York
Back in 2012, Michael Skvarla was running to a Walmart in Arkansas for milk when he spotted a huge insect on the side of the building.
Its wingspan was nearly two inches across. Mr Skvarla studies insects, so he took it home - and forgot about it.
But in 2020, he showed it to his students in class. They realised it was something far more rare than expected: A giant lacewing.
He'd found a bug that hasn't been seen in eastern North America for 50 years.
"We all realised together that the insect was not what it was labelled," said Codey Mathis, one of Mr Skvarla's entomology students at Penn State.
Mr Skvarla, now director of Penn State University's Insect Identification Lab, recently co-authored a paper about the discovery, made when he showed the bug to students in an online class.
That wide wingspan was the clue that led Mr Skvarla and his students to spot, mid-lecture, what they'd found.
"It was so gratifying to know that the excitement doesn't dim, the wonder isn't lost," Mr Mathis said. "Here we were making a true discovery in the middle of an online lab course."
Mr Skvarla later confirmed the find through molecular analysis.
The giant lacewing, or Polystoechotes punctata, is a large insect from the Jurassic Era. It was once widespread, but mysteriously disappeared from eastern North America sometime in the 1950s.
Scientists suspect the disappearance may have been due to pollution, artificial light, non-native predators or a number of other factors.
Mr Skvarla's giant lacewing marks the first time the species has ever been discovered in Arkansas. It "suggests there may be relic populations of this large, Jurassic-Era insect yet to be discovered," he says.
That Arkansas Walmart is located in the Ozark Mountains. The area is under-studied but could be a biodiversity hotspot, say Mr Skvarla and his co-author J. Ray Fisher of Mississippi State University.
It's an ideal place for "a large, showy insect" to hide undetected, they say. Mr Skvarla's specimen could mean there is "a rare, surviving eastern population of giant lacewings that evaded detection and extinction". He's hopeful the discovery may lead to more.
"A finding like this really highlights that even in a run-of-the-mill situation, there are still a tremendous number of discoveries to make about insects," he says.
Rare Jurassic-era bug found at Arkansas Walmart
A teacher who spotted the bug took it home - then realised during a class how unusual it was.
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'Havana Syndrome' Not Caused by Foreign Adversary, US Intel Finds
A globe-spanning investigation has concluded it is 'very unlikely' a foreign adversary is responsible for the 'Havana syndrome' ailment that has afflicted US diplomats, spies and other personnel worldwide.
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Rare bird not seen for 24 years found alive in Madagascan forests
Three sightings of the dusky tetraka suggest that its preferred habitat is by mountain streams with rocky banks – which is not where people had been previously searching for it.
COVID pill is first to cut short positive-test time after infection
The antiviral ensitrelvir, which is not approved in the United States, shortens symptoms in people with mild COVID and might reduce risk of long COVID — but more data are needed.
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Studies like these will grow more frequent. Prior to the legalization in many states research on marijuana was very rare because it was classified as being as dangerous as heroin, therefore few researchers wanted to jump through the hoops needed to look into its use. There are repercussions to anything we put in our bodies. For the record I'm a former daily user.
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‘Little dragon’ found on uninhabited Australian island is a new species. Take a look
Aspen Pflughoeft / Fri, March 3, 2023 at 2:04 PM PST
Landing on the sandy beach, a team of researchers headed into the rainforest of an uninhabited island off the coast of Australia. Scouring the rocky terrain, they soon discovered an unfamiliar creature.
Conrad Hoskin led the reptile survey to Scawfell Island, a rugged island with a rainforest canopy and numerous boulders, James Cook University said in a Friday, March 3, news release. He set out with a goal in mind.
“I went to that island in the hopes of finding some interesting reptile species,” Hoskin told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC). “One thing I really hoped for was that there could be one of these incredible leaf-tailed geckos.”
Leaf-tailed geckos are a type of lizard found along the east coast of Australia, Hoskin wrote in a study published Feb. 20 in the journal Zootaxa.
As night fell on Scawfall Island, Hoskin spotted something. “It looks like a little dragon or something,” Hoskin told The Guardian.
The creature had “spindly legs” and a “spiny tail,” the release said. Hoskin quickly realized he was looking at a previously undiscovered species.
He identified the new species as the Scawfell Island leaf-tailed gecko, or phyllurus fimbriatus, the study said. The gecko’s scientific name, fimbriatus, is Latin for “fringed” and refers to the texture of its tail.........................
The gecko is “perfectly camouflaged” for its environment, the release said. Photos show its brown body and blotched coloring blending into the rocks.