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Paper of the Month: Survival of chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells is independent of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase activity

February 23, 2011

February 2010 Paper of the month This month's featured paper is from the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and is titled "Human chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells are insensitive to imatinib despite inhibition of BCR-ABL activity." This research was ...

Paper of the Month: Survival of chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells is independent of BCR-ABL tyrosine kinase activity

February 23, 2011

February 2010 Paper of the month This month's featured paper is from the Journal of Clinical Investigation, and is titled "Human chronic myeloid leukemia stem cells are insensitive to imatinib despite inhibition of BCR-ABL activity." This research was ...

Good news for women who become infertile during cancer treatment

February 21, 2011

Thanks to constantly evolving therapies, many women can now call themselves “former” cancer patients. However, for some of the tens of thousands of young women who fight and beat cancer each year, the same aggressive treatments that saved their lives ...

Scientists discover cell of origin for childhood muscle cancer

February 14, 2011

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have defined the cell of origin for a kind of cancer called sarcoma. In a study published today as the Featured Article in the journal Cancer Cell, they report that ...

Scientists discover cell of origin for childhood muscle cancer

February 14, 2011

Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital have defined the cell of origin for a kind of cancer called sarcoma. In a study published today as the Featured Article in the journal Cancer Cell, they report that ...

From fuel pump to heart valve, M. Lowell Edwards sought solutions

February 14, 2011

Much is known about his landmark invention: a prosthetic heart valve, developed with Dr. Albert Starr, which saved the lives of thousands of patients afflicted with lethal cardiac valve scarring. But less is known about the man – M. Lowell Edwards – ...

From fuel pump to heart valve, M. Lowell Edwards sought solutions

February 14, 2011

Much is known about his landmark invention: a prosthetic heart valve, developed with Dr. Albert Starr, which saved the lives of thousands of patients afflicted with lethal cardiac valve scarring. But less is known about the man – M. Lowell Edwards – ...

OHSU fixes complex heart problems without open-heart surgery

February 10, 2011

The pediatric cardiac team at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is the first in the region and one of a handful in the nation to implant a pulmonary heart valve without open-heart surgery. To date, four patients have ...

OHSU fixes complex heart problems without open-heart surgery

February 10, 2011

The pediatric cardiac team at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children’s Hospital is the first in the region and one of a handful in the nation to implant a pulmonary heart valve without open-heart surgery. To date, four patients have ...

Paper of the Month: OX40, a co-stimulatory molecule critical for T cell activation during the pathogenesis of uveitis

January 24, 2011

OX40, a co-stimulatory molecule critical for T cell activation during the pathogenesis of uveitis This month's featured paper is from the American Journal of Pathology, and is titled “Activation of OX40 Augments Th17 Cytokine Expression and ...

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