Posts by Johns Hopkins Medicine
Cancer cells spread by taking over blood vessels
Scientists used a tissue-engineered 3D microvessel model to study how breast cancer cells invade blood vessels and spread to distant sites. …
Read Full ArticleCholesterol-lowering drug improved function of heart’s arteries
Researchers found that a six-week course of a cholesterol-lowering medication improved the function of coronary arteries in patients with HIV or high cholesterol levels. …
Read Full ArticleBreast cancer cells can reprogram immune cells to assist in metastasis
Metastatic breast cancer cells can reprogram natural killer (NK) cells so that they stop killing cancer cells and, instead, assist in metastasis. …
Read Full ArticleNanoparticle-delivered gene therapy inhibits blinding eye disease in rodents
Scientists report the successful use of nanoparticles to deliver gene therapy for blinding eye disease in animal models. …
Read Full ArticlePrimitive stem cells shown to regenerate blood vessels in the eye
Scientists have successfully made adult human cells revert to a primitive state with the potential to replace and repair damaged retinal blood vessels. …
Read Full ArticleMultimodal genomic analyses predict response to immunotherapy in lung cancer patients
Researchers have developed an integrated genomic approach that potentially could predict which patients with non-small-cell lung cancer will respond to immune checkpoint inhibitors. …
Read Full Article‘Swiss cheese’ bones could be cause of unexplained low back pain
The vast majority of low back pain may be rooted in an overgrowth of pain-sensing nerves into spinal cartilaginous tissue. …
Read Full ArticleSome learning is a whole-brain affair
Researchers used a laser-assisted imaging tool in mice to show that motor-based learning can occur in multiple areas of the brain, even ones not typically associated with motor control. …
Read Full ArticleIntermittent fasting: live ‘fast,’ live longer?
New review article examines the scientific evidence behind intermittent fasting. …
Read Full ArticleGenetic brain disorder fixed in mice using precision epigenome editing
Using a targeted gene epigenome editing approach in the developing mouse brain, researchers reversed one gene mutation that leads to the genetic disorder WAGR syndrome, …
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