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The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center’s Research Highlights provides a glimpse into recently published studies in basic, translational and clinical cancer research from MD Anderson experts. Clinical advances include positive data with targeted therapies for HER2 exon 20 mutant lung cancer, for older patients with mantle cell lymphoma and for BRAFV600E-mutant gliomas. Additional discoveries include insights into chromosomal instability and immunotherapy resistance in pancreatic cancer, the genomic landscape of small-cell lung cancer, hematopoietic stem cell decline with telomere shortening, identifying tumor suppressors in CRISPR screens, and physiological responses to fasting.

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High court juries can detect when someone is lying even when they're wearing a face mask, according to new research analysis by the University of Portsmouth

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In this study of 3,000 adults with cataracts, the risk of developing dementia was lower in participants who underwent cataract removal compared with those who didn’t.

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A new Cleveland Clinic-led study has identified sildenafil – an FDA-approved therapy for erectile dysfunction (Viagra) and pulmonary hypertension (Revatio) – as a promising drug candidate to help prevent and treat Alzheimer’s disease.

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As the first cases of flu are reported in Los Angeles this season, public health experts are urging anyone who isn't already vaccinated to get the flu shot. It's the best protection against the flu, which could pummel the U.S. this winter after nearly disappearing last year.

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his story is part of a series, called Georgia Groundbreakers, that celebrates innovative and visionary faculty, students, alumni and leaders throughout the history of the University of Georgia – and their profound, enduring impact on our state, our nation and the world.

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NCCN announces updates on the NCCN Distress Thermometer and Problem List -- a free resource to help providers worldwide identify and address the unpleasant experiences that may make it harder to cope with having cancer, its symptoms, or treatment.

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A trial testing whether multidisciplinary telehealth intervention will help improve racial disparities in outcomes for adult stroke survivors will be launched at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth Houston) with a $3.1 million grant from the National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities at the National Institutes of Health.

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During the COVID-19 pandemic, parents were most likely to use aggressive discipline on their children when their daily stress levels were highest, usually late in the day, a study of parents in central Ohio found.

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As the need for youth violence prevention escalates, two studies show that "SafERteens," an evidence-based behavioral intervention designed to engage youth at this high-risk time and reduce violence involvement, can be successfully integrated as a part of routine medical care delivery in both emergency and primary care settings. Researchers say it has the potential for critical impact on long-term violence outcomes for youth.

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For most children with renal masses, the standard of care has long been to remove the entire affected kidney—which is the protocol for Wilms tumor, the most common kidney cancer in children. But is it possible for surgeons to perform partial nephrectomies in some patients with renal masses—safely removing the mass, but leaving the child’s kidney in place?Pediatric urologist Andy Chang, MD, Vice Chair of Operations for the Department of Surgery at Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, recently led a study to investigate this question, and he will present the results in December at The Societies for Pediatric Urology Fall Congress in Miami.

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Boys are 10 times more likely to be vaccinated against human papillomavirus (HPV) in provinces where the vaccine is publicly funded than in places where it is not, according to a new study published by a researcher at the Princess Margaret Cancer Centre and colleagues at McGill University, Université de Montréal, and the Jewish General Hospital.

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Michael Silka, MD, co-chaired an international effort to develop the first pediatric-only guidelines for cardiac implantable devices. A pioneer in the development of indications for the use of pacemakers and implantable defibrillators in young patients, he discusses the guidelines for use of the devices in children.

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The New Mexico Lab-Embedded Entrepreneur Program (New Mexico LEEP) announces the three fellows in the program’s first cohort, scheduled to launch in January 2022.

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A newly funded program at Los Alamos National Laboratory, in collaboration with Fort Lewis College, supports undergraduate indigenous women interested in a career in physics.

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Among HIV-positive black and Latino men who have sex with men, the use of methamphetamine combined with intimate partner violence may increase the risk for developing chronic diseases such as cardiovascular disease and other disorders.

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Georgia Tech scientists and engineers are building a new DOE-funded instrument that captures 3D images of plant-microbe chemical reactions underground in an interdisciplinary effort to develop biofuels and fertilizers — and help mitigate climate change.

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Kim Iversen, a popular political talk show host with over 27K followers on Twitter, claimed that people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are global superspreaders of the new omicron variant. “I can’t believe that after fully vaccinated travelers have been found to be the global spreaders of the omicron variant, we’re STILL talking about forcing people into being vaccinated,” she wrote on Twitter. We find this claim to be misleading. There is very little data on how the new variant is being spread.

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By: Bill Wellock | Published: December 3, 2021 | 2:55 pm | SHARE: The attack on Pearl Harbor 80 years ago spurred U.S. involvement in World War II, sending the country into a conflict that would change American society in profound ways.Among the many changes was making the country more tolerant of religious pluralism, said Florida State University Associate Professor of History Kurt Piehler, director of the Institute on World War II and the Human Experience.

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The University of Michigan Health Rogel Cancer Center has earned a three-year accreditation from the National Accreditation Program for Rectal Cancer, a quality program of the American College of Surgeons’ Commission on Cancer.

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Scientists at the Sbarro Institute for Cancer Research and Molecular Medicine, Center of Biotechnology, located at Temple University’s College of Science and Technology, working with collaborators in Italy, have described the age-related differences in inflammatory response to an emerging immunotherapy treatment for Non-Small-Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) called PD-1 blockade.

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The lead of SDSC’s Distributed High-Throughput Computing Group, executive director of the Open Science Grid, a physics professor and a founding faculty member of the Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute at UC San Diego becomes SDSC's new director.

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Hackensack Meridian Health, New Jersey’s largest and most comprehensive health network, today announced a partnership with CLEAR (NYSE: YOU), the secure identity company, to empower patients with a digital proof of their COVID-19 vaccination records. Patients vaccinated at Hackensack Meridian Health can now use the free CLEAR app and digital vaccine card feature - replacing their fragile paper card with a verified digital version that can be used anywhere and anytime needed.

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Scientists at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) and Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), have found a possible way to improve the effectiveness of COVID-19 vaccines—and any vaccine.

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Our understanding of how microscopic structure and changes in the shape of food affect food texture remains underdeveloped, so researchers from Denmark and Germany conducted a series of experiments relating food microstructure and rheology to texture. In Physics of Fluids, they used coherent anti-Stokes Raman scattering microscopy to relate the molecular makeup of the fat in foods with the rheological and mechanical properties of the food. The foods in question: foie gras and pâté.

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Physicists have proposed a method to measure the speed of sound characterizing matter created in nuclear collisions. Heavy nuclei consist of hundreds of protons and neutrons, which themselves are composed of quarks and gluons. In heavy-ion collisions, the energy density of matter reaches very high levels, and the nucleons become a quark-gluon plasma. Experimental analyses can reveal properties of the quark-gluon plasma, helping scientists learn about the thermodynamics of dense nuclear matter.

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This Award recognizes Hackensack University Medical Center’s commitment to best practices, quality for mitral valve repair.

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In APL Bioengineering, researchers have developed an approach to print skin equivalents, which may play a future role in facilitating the healing of chronic wounds. They used suspended layer additive manufacturing, creating a gel-like material to support the skin equivalent that can then support a second phase of gel injection. During printing, the skin layers are deposited within the support gel. After printing, the team washed away the support material, leaving behind the layered skin equivalent.

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The University of Arkansas at Little Rock has partnered with the Forge Institute and the University of Arkansas at Pine Bluff to establish the Consortium for Cyber Innovation (CCI) to meet the country’s growing need for skilled cybersecurity professionals. The consortium will develop and align cyber education and grow applied research capabilities throughout the state.

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Air trapped with ice below glacier surfaces becomes a compressed bubble-ice mixture that builds pressure during the long passage to the glacier terminus. The glacier ice holds ancient bubbles of air that can be up to 20 atmospheres of pressure and generate detectable sounds when they are released as the ice melts. Scientists can listen to the release of the air and potentially use the sounds to help them gauge the impact of climate change on the ice floes.

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Tingyi Gu has received the Young Faculty Award by the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to further her research on nanophotonics and silicon photonics to improve digital communications. The award, granted to more than a dozen early career researchers annually, aims to “identify and engage rising stars” and grant exposure to Department of Defense needs.

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While trying out a new device that injects powder to clean up the walls of the world’s largest stellarator, scientists were pleased to find that the bits of atoms confined by magnetic fields within the device got temporarily hotter after each injection, leading to better fusion performance.