Researchers at the LKS Faculty of Medicine of the University of Hong Kong (HKUMed) have invented an oral formulation of ...

US-based pharmaceutical company Moleculin Biotech has received approval from Ukraine's Ministry of Health to begin enrolment in its Phase III trial of annamycin with cytarabine for treating acute ...

Aug. 21, 2024 — An international team of scientists has uncovered a mechanism by which acute myeloid leukemia (AML) cells sustain their growth. AML cells prevent the synthesis of proteins that ...

A new computational tool could help researchers identify promising drug combinations for treating cancer, according to a new ...

Scientists have developed retriever, a computational tool that extracts disease-specific drug response signatures to predict the best combinations for cancer treatment.

This valuable study presents a mouse gastruloid model that can be used to generate hematopoietic progenitors as well as leukemic cells. However, in its current form, the manuscript is inadequate ...

B-cell prolymphocytic leukemia (B-PLL) is a rare, aggressive type of leukemia that progresses rapidly. People with B-PLL typically have a less favorable outlook. However, new targeted treatments ...

In the 1680s, 1 Antony van Leeuwenhoek, a Dutch microbiologist who invented the compound microscope, investigated, illustrated, and described the size and shape of red blood cells. 2 The invention of ...

Leukemia is classified by stage. Different types of leukemia (acute vs. chronic) have different staging systems—with some with as few as three stages and others with as many as seven—but each ...

Karen Baxter, Audrey’s mom, died of acute myeloid leukemia on March 30, 2024. Karen first felt sick on a Sunday night and was gone in less than a week. AML is a cancer of the blood and bone marrow.