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This Friday, March 8, NSH will celebrate Histology Professionals Day, a day dedicated to honoring the work histologists do behind the scenes to contribute to patient care. We encourage all our histotechs to post their celebration pictures on NSH’s Histology Professionals Facebook page and to vote for their favorite stain in NSH’s Art of the Stain Contest. Voting will take place on The Block on Friday! Happy HPD!
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NSH is now accepting applications for NSH’s Awards and Scholarships Program. Apply for a professional scholarship to earn funds to use for continuing education, certification or tuition to pursue higher education. Nominate a peer for an award to honor them for their contributions to the histology profession. The deadline for submissions is May 31. Apply now!
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The Washington Post
A man has been in remission from HIV for a year and a half, without drugs, after receiving a stem cell transplant of virus-resistant cells — raising the prospect that he has become the second person to be cured of the disease.
The anonymous case, referred to as the “London patient” by researchers, was cautiously reported in the journal Nature as still too “premature” to be declared a cure, but is a long-awaited advance. It was scheduled to be announced recently at an HIV conference in Seattle, 12 years after Timothy Ray Brown, known in medical circles as the “Berlin patient” was cured by a similar stem cell transplant, galvanizing the field of HIV research and sparking the search for a cure.
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Medical News Today
In autoimmune diseases, such as type 1 diabetes and multiple sclerosis, the body's immune system mistakenly attacks healthy cells, believing them to be harmful agents. Recently, scientists have been conducting new research with the aim of devising an innovative strategy to treat these conditions.
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ScienceDaily
A new study describes a new therapeutic approach with potential for patients with pancreatic cancer. These researchers discovered a combination drug therapy that may effectively combat the disease. Researchers first observed anti-cancer impacts in a laboratory setting and, subsequently, in its first use in a human patient.
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The HistoCore SPECTRA Workstation is the first and only workstation with dual glass coverslip lines, enabling the highest throughput of up to 570 dried slides per hour, to meet the most demanding turnaround times. It comes with specifically designed consumables with proven consistency from slide 1-1600. Watch the video and see the difference this unique system can make to your lab.
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The Washington Post
The notion that vaccines might cause autism was refuted nine years ago, when a British medical panel concluded in 2010 that Andrew Wakefield, the doctor with undisclosed financial interests in making such claims, had acted with “callous disregard” in conducting his research.
But in 2019, professional epidemiologists are still devoting time and resources to discrediting Wakefield’s work, which set off a steep decline in vaccinations, including in the United States, where Wakefield moved in 2004.
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Bloomberg
The pharma world’s newfound zeal for slimmer pipelines has brought an end to once-promising obesity medicines.
Both Sanofi and Novartis have halted work on experimental weight-loss treatments, leaving rival Novo Nordisk A/S with little competition in the field.
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ScienceDaily
A nationwide consortium of researchers has identified the first genetic defect linked to biliary atresia, a mysterious liver disease that is the leading cause for liver transplantation in children.
The results were published in the journal Hepatology.
The causes of biliary atresia were unknown, so this is a major advance that will move the field of pediatric liver disease forward, says senior author Saul J. Karpen, MD, PhD, professor of pediatrics at Emory University School of Medicine and a pediatric hepatologist at Children's Healthcare of Atlanta.
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Dark Daily
Clinical laboratories may soon have a new paper-based finger prick assay that can quickly measure metabolites in blood samples and enable patients who need to monitor certain conditions, such as congenital phenylketonuria, to do so at home.
The test also could be used at the point of care and in remote regions where larger, medical laboratory technology for monitoring metabolites in blood is limited.
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A group of researchers lead by a lecturer from the Universidad Carlos III de Madrid and Fundación Jiménez Díaz has identified a common genetic signature among three rare skin diseases or genodermatoses: recessive dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa, Kindler syndrome and xeroderma pigmentosum. In the near future, these findings will allow efficient and safe evidence-based therapeutic approaches.
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Forbes
Researchers in the Netherlands have created tiny organoid models of an important part of the kidney, that may lead to new ways to study kidney diseases.
The models which they call "tubuloids," are formed from kidney tubules, which are an essential component of the kidney, functioning to filter waste products from the blood and eventually leading to their removal from the body via urine.
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New research published today in Scientific Reports has devised a way to track tiny message-carriers in the brain that could prove useful in diagnosing and treating injuries, infections or diseases.
The study, from assistant professor David Feliciano's lab in Clemson's College of Science, uses a glowing mouse — appropriately dubbed the "TIGER mouse" — to trace the movement of information-rich particles found in bodily fluids throughout the body, called extracellular vesicles (EVs).
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Outsourcing-Pharma.com
Sharing clinical trial and research data for rare diseases is imperative for drug development and disease understanding, says industry expert.
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Healio
Top-line results from the OPTIC trial showed that the phase 3 study met its primary endpoint, demonstrating that more patients with active thyroid eye disease assigned teprotumumab experienced a meaningful improvement in proptosis, or protrusion of the eyeball, compared with patients assigned placebo, according to a press release from Horizon Pharma.
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