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New Treatment Direction For Rare Metabolic Diseases

A research team led by biochemist Scott Garman at the University of Massachusetts Amherst has discovered a key interaction at the heart of a promising new treatment for a rare childhood metabolic disorder known as Fabry disease. The discovery will help…

Removal Of Lymph Nodes During Surgery For Thyroid Cancer May Be Beneficial

Papillary thyroid cancer accounts for the majority of all thyroid malignancies, which primarily impact women. A new study indicates that routinely removing lymph nodes in the neck in these cancer patients may help prevent the disease from coming back. …

MU Researchers Recommend Exercise For Breast Cancer Survivors, Lymphedema Patients

Lymphedema, a chronic swelling condition common in breast cancer survivors, affects three million people in the U.S. In the past, most people believed that exercise might induce or worsen lymphedema. After reviewing the literature, University of Missou…

Lymfactin™ Found To Significantly Increase Growth Of Lymphatic Vessels In Animal Study

Laurantis Pharma, a privately held biotechnology company based in Finland, announced that LymfactinTM, adenoviral VEGF-C growth factor therapy, was successful in rebuilding lymphatic vessels in pre-clinical animal models. The use of VEGF-C growth thera…

Disappearance Of Genetic Material Allows Tumor Cells To Grow

Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine (MDC) Berlin-Buch, the Max-Planck-Institut für Molekulare Genetik Berlin, and four other German institutes succeeded in proving a specific gene loss in a certain human lymp…