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The NSH abstract submission deadline for the 2019 Annual Symposium/Convention is this Friday, Feb. 8. Submit your abstract and be part of the largest histology education conference in the country. Click here to submit.
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Last chance to get your Histotechnology Professionals Day T-shirt! The deadline for HPD T-shirt purchases has been extended through this Friday, Feb. 8. Don’t miss your chance to show off your histology pride this March. Get yours now!
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Dark Daily
ost anatomic pathologists are aware of the rapid advances in the field of cancer immunotherapy — sometimes also called immune-oncology. This is an area of healthcare where precision medicine and personal genetics become crucial elements in developing more effective drug regimens.
Scientists are combining those two areas of research to develop vaccines designed for specific individuals based on the genetic characteristics of their DNA. This is why there are great hopes that cancer immunotherapy can be used to artificially stimulate the immune system to treat cancer and improve the system’s natural ability to fight cancer.
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The heart’s motion is so powerful that it can recharge devices that save our lives, according to new research from Dartmouth College.
Using a dime-sized invention developed by engineers at the Thayer School of Engineering at Dartmouth, the kinetic energy of the heart can be converted into electricity to power a wide-range of implantable devices, according to the study funded by the National Institutes of Health.
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A powerful immune molecule helps protect transplanted organs from rejection by putting a silencer on two other immune molecules that converge to take a direct shot at the organ, scientists report.
That targeted, protective role provides more evidence that human leukocyte antigen G dimer, or HLA-G dimer, should be an effective therapy for protecting transplanted organs, says Dr. Anatolij Horuzsko, immunologist at the Medical College of Georgia and Georgia Cancer Center at Augusta University.
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During the Zika virus outbreak of 2015-16, public health officials scrambled to contain the epidemic and curb the pathogen’s devastating effects on pregnant women. At the same time, scientists around the globe tried to understand the genetics of this mysterious virus.
The problem was, there just aren’t many Zika virus particles in the blood of a sick patient. Looking for it in clinical samples can be like fishing for a minnow in an ocean.
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Experts from the Universities of Bath and Seville have carried out a series of experiments with which, for the first time, they have been able to characterize the normal electrical activity in PC-3 prostate cancer cells in real time, with a resulting low-frequency electrical pattern between 0.1 and 10 Hertz. "We have observed that this electrical activity evolves from asynchronous and sporadic behavior to synchronous and quasi-periodic behavior. Once the normal electrical pattern of this type of cells is known, we use a calcium channel barometer, specifically gadolinium chloride, as these channels are directly related to the electrical activity in the PC-3 prostate cancer cells," explains the University of Seville telecommunications engineer Miguel Cabello.
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In another big step toward helping consumers view prices of medical procedures when selecting providers, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services passed the IPPS/LTCH PPS final rule, which requires hospitals to post a full list of hospital pricing information on their websites starting Jan. 1, 2019.
Clinical laboratories, anatomic pathologists and other diagnosticians doing business with their local health networks will now find their prices for tests and procedures listed on the hospitals’ chargemasters available to the public.
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When they arrived in the Americas centuries ago, European colonists brought pestilence and death. Their arrival was so devastating, in fact, that it may have contributed to a period of global cooling, according to a new study.
The research, to be published in the March issue of the journal Quaternary Science Reviews, represents an ambitious attempt to show that, through a series of events, human activity was affecting the climate long before the industrial revolution and global warming.
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Medical Xpress
Researchers have found that treating psoriasis, a chronic inflammatory skin disease, with biologic drugs that target immune system activity can reduce the early plaque buildup that clogs arteries, restricts blood flow and leads to heart attacks and stroke. The findings highlight how immunotherapies that treat inflammatory conditions might play a role in the reduction of cardiovascular disease risks. The study, funded by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute, part of the National Institutes of Health, appears online in the journal Cardiovascular Research.
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ScienceDaily
The George Institute for Global Health at the University of Oxford measured the duration and intensity of physical activity levels over seven days and compared those participants with, and those without, chronic disease. They found that those with chronic disease, even those conditions that don't directly limit capacity for exercise, spent less time active.
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Physics World
Researchers at the Wolfson Molecular imaging center and the Sir Peter Mansfield Imaging Centre have reported on a new utility of the PET tracer florbetapir. They found that the tracer can distinguish frontotemporal dementia from Alzheimer’s disease and the cognitively normal elderly. This ability removes the need for a separate scan to identify FTD, which can cause significant stress in such patients.
FTD presents a unique diagnostic challenge. In particular, fibrous protein aggregates known as amyloid fibrils, which are closely associated with the onset and progression of Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s disease, may or not be present in cases of FTD.
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Two new papers, published simultaneously in Nature Communications and led by researchers at McGill University, offer promise that a drug currently used to treat estrogen positive breast cancer may be effective in treating two different types of cancer, one rare and one common form.
The breakthrough discovery launching this research came in 2014 when Dr. William Foulkes, James McGill Professor in the Departments of Medicine, Oncology and Human Genetics at McGill's Faculty of Medicine, showed that small cell carcinoma of the ovary, hypercalcemic type, a rare but highly fatal cancer which primarily strikes younger women, is caused by mutations in the gene SMARCA4.
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The 2014-2016 Ebola virus epidemic that ravaged Western Africa, killing thousands, was the largest in history. An analysis of the epidemic found that not all individuals played an equal role in spreading the deadly infectious disease — just 3 percent of patients caused more than 60 percent of infections in other people. "Superspreaders" have also been implicated in other outbreaks, including severe acute respiratory syndrome and Middle East respiratory syndrome.
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Tissues and organs in the human body are shaped through forces generated by cells, that push and pull, to "sculpt" biological structures. Thanks to a new tool developed at McGill University, scientists will now be able to watch, and map these forces. Christopher Moraes, an assistant professor in McGill's Department of Chemical Engineering, and colleagues developed spherical spring-like sensors that distort under mechanical stress within three-dimensional tissues in the lab.
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Drug Target Review
About one in every 5,000 babies is born without enteric neurons in distal colon resulting in Hirschsprung’s disease. Because of the lacking neurons, contents of the gut cannot pass normally resulting in constipation and enlargement of the colon.
The condition is treated with surgical removal of the affected gut part, but the patients remain at high risk of enterocolitis, or inflammation of the gut. This is the major life-threatening complication of Hirschsprung’s disease.
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