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personalized medicine
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Swallowable injections: the octopus-inspired pill that delivers drugs with a jet
Nature, Published online: 20 November 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03824-1 Can jets of drugs from pressurized capsules replace needles? Source link
Clonal dynamics after allogeneic haematopoietic cell transplantation
Study population Ten donor–recipient pairs were selected from the original 45 HCT recipients and HLA-matched sibling donors who…
Could biomarkers mean better pain treatment?
For clinicians on the challenging front line of chronic pain treatment, the tale of a general-practice physician in…
Pain: recognizing the power of non-pharmaceutical interventions
Nature, Published online: 25 September 2024; doi:10.1038/d41586-024-03002-3 Physicians need alternatives to opioid drugs. Could manipulating the microbiome or…
I make fake eyes for those who need them
“I’m the only ocularist in Uganda. Apart from me, there’s no one in the country to make prosthetic…
researchers can help to shepherd them to market
More than 30,000 people in the United States alone have already received personalized CART-T-cell therapy for cancer.Credit: Qilai…
Cancer-vaccine trials give reasons for optimism
Illustration: Andrew Khosravani Most people think of immunization as a way to prevent infectious disease. Vaccines contain proteins…
Video: Cancer-busting vaccines
Most vaccines work by teaching the immune system to recognize harmful viruses or bacteria before a person gets…
How does a cancer vaccine work?
Vaccines are usually used to prevent infectious diseases. A therapeutic cancer vaccine is different. Rather than teaching the…
Ambitious survey of human diversity yields millions of undiscovered genetic variants
The All of Us programme aims to recruit one million people from ethnic and socio-economic groups that are…