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Pleural Effusion Caused by Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer. – UroToday

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2017-08-09 NEWS

Pleural Effusion Caused by Bacillus Calmette-Guérin Immunotherapy for Bladder Cancer.
UroToday
Intravesical bacillus Calmette Guérin (BCG) instillation has been used as immunotherapy for early stage bladder cancer for >40 years. Complications from this therapy are rare but may result in a spectrum of infectious sequelae. Here we describe the

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Immunotherapy succeeds in thwarting Type-1 diabetes in study
Los Angeles Times
A form of immunotherapy gaining ground as a way to treat childhood food allergies has shown promise in treating another rising scourge of children and young adults: Type 1 diabetes. In a small but rigorous clinical trial, British investigators gave
Immunotherapy Shown Safe in Type 1 Diabetes Clinical TrialU.S. News & World Report
Pioneering immunotherapy shows promise in type 1 diabetesMedical Xpress
Immunotherapy shown to be safe for diabetesEurekAlert (press release)
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Stem cells may treat lung fibrosis diseases
Futurity: Research News
In research appearing in the journal Respiratory Research, the scientists demonstrated that they could harvest lung stem cells from people using a relatively non-invasive, doctor’s-office technique. They were then able to multiply the harvested lung

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Healthcare Packaging

Stem Cell Implants Could Cure Diabetes
Healthcare Packaging
A recent New Scientist article suggests San Diego-based ViaCyte may have finally cracked the code with their PEC-Direct, an implant the size of a credit card that contains cells derived from stem cells that mature into the specialized islet cells that
This Scientific Breakthrough Could Be the Next Miracle Cure for Type 1 DiabetesReader’s Digest
We’re One Step Closer to Curing Type 1 Diabetes With This First-Ever Stem Cell ImplantGears Of Biz
Diabetes Cure 2017: Scientists May Have Found Treatment for Type-1 ConditionChristian Post

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Study of protein cages strengthens Bristol’s position at forefront of synthetic biology
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A multidisciplinary team of mathematicians, theoretical physicists, chemists and biochemists from the University of Bristol came together to study the self-assembly of protein building into protein cages with possible applications in nanotechnology and …

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Gears Of Biz

Study of protein cages strengthens Bristol’s position at forefront of synthetic biology
Gears Of Biz
A multidisciplinary team of mathematicians, theoretical physicists, chemists and biochemists from the University of Bristol came together to study the self-assembly of protein building into protein cages with possible applications in nanotechnology and …