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Disease Discoveries
Jan 17, 2014

Iron May be at Heart of Cancer Drug’s Cardiotoxicity Effect

Hossein Ardehali, MD, PhD, has discovered that doxorubicin, an effective and commonly used anticancer drug, is causing an accumulation of iron inside of a cell’s mitochondria, resulting in heart damage.

Disease Discoveries
Jan 16, 2014

Heart Attack Damage Slashed with Microparticle Therapy

After a heart attack, much of the damage to the heart muscle is caused by inflammatory cells that rush to the scene of the oxygen-starved tissue. But the damage is slashed in half when microparticles are injected into the blood stream within 24 hours of the attack, according to preclinical research.

Disease Discoveries
Jan 13, 2014

Enhanced Prognoses Could Help Lymphoma Patients

Northwestern Medicine scientists have developed a new prognostic tool for clinicians treating patients with large B-cell lymphoma. The predictive scale enhances the widely used International Prognostic Index.

Disease Discoveries
Jan 10, 2014

Scientist Uncovers Selective Cell Death in Ataxia

Published in the Journal of Neuroscience, a discovery by Marco Martina, MD, PhD, associate professor in Physiology, sheds new light on the selective vulnerability of cell types in preclinical models of ataxia.

Disease Discoveries
Jan 3, 2014

Collaboration Will Investigate Genetics of Dengue Virus

Variations in DNA sequence may have a significant impact on how humans respond to dengue virus. A group of scientists from Nicaragua, the University of California-Berkeley and Feinberg will seek to uncover genetic variants that make certain people more susceptible to life-threatening forms of the infection.

Disease Discoveries
Oct 31, 2013

Identifying Signaling Pathways in Breast Cancer

Second-year medical student Chaitanya Medicherla explores the effects of immune cells on cancer development as part of his Area of Scholarly Concentration research project.

Disease Discoveries
Oct 21, 2013

Investigating Inflammation in Autoimmune Diseases

Jennifer Heller, a fifth-year PhD candidate, uses animal models of colitis to better understand how the adaptive immune system becomes dysregulated.

Disease Discoveries
Oct 17, 2013

Scientists Discover Clue to Controlling HIV Virus

The finding may be useful in shortening drug treatments for those with the disease.

Disease Discoveries
Oct 15, 2013

Review Unifies Half Decade of Uterine Fibroid Research

Serdar Bulun, MD, authored an article in the New England Journal of Medicine that combines recent uterine fibroid research into a useful framework for scientists, clinicians, patients and the pharmaceutical industry.

Disease Discoveries
Oct 11, 2013

Inhibitor May Help Treat Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Scientists are working to determine if a specific receptor inhibitor could be used to augment chemotherapy or prevent relapse in individuals with the disease.

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