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After 14 long months of near-isolation, Michele Nadeem-Baker was ready for her Covid-19 vaccination. Diagnosed with chronic lymphocytic leukemia in 2012, she knew her cancer made her more vulnerable to …
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Before the pandemic, most people had never heard of Illumina, the California-based sequencing behemoth whose machines generate upwards of 90% of the world’s DNA data. And while Illumina might still …
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At a time when medical researchers are under pressure to increase diversity in clinical trials, a Johns Hopkins study is sparking outrage among some physicians because of its large number …
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My mom died of stage 4 cancer in February 2008. Had the technology existed then to detect her cancer earlier, she might have met my three young daughters. Improving cancer …
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Editors note: A livestream of the event will be embedded below at 1 p.m. ET. Targeted treatments for cancers with specific mutations have dramatically changed the lives of some people …
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Scientists have created a microrobot that can pass the near-impenetrable blood-brain barrier to treat brain tumors in mice, they report in a new study in Science Robotics. Researchers at the …
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Drugs that harness the body’s immune system to find and kill cancer cells have improved the lives of patients with cancer and generated billions of dollars in sales for the …
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On what should have been Francesca Kaczynski’s first birthday, her memory was celebrated instead on national television. The ebullient baby girl, “Beans,” as she was fondly called, had died on …
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José Baselga, a storied oncology researcher and pharmaceutical executive whose discoveries helped pave the way for new breast cancer therapies, died Sunday at the age of 61. His death was …
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