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Researchers elucidate network of genes that control when puberty begins
December 15, 2015
In expanding our knowledge of how the brain controls the process of sexual development, researchers at Oregon Healthy & Science University and the University of Pittsburgh have identified for the first time members of an elaborate superfamily of genes that regulate the timing of puberty in highly evolved nonhuman primates. The Zinc finger, or ZNF, gene family comprises approximately 800 individual genes.
Cancer Research UK joins OHSU in collaboration to improve early detection of cancer
December 14, 2015
Cancer Research UK, one of the largest funders of cancer research globally, and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University, a leader in precision cancer medicine, have formed an international collaboration to accelerate research in the early detection of cancer.
OHSU Doernbecher awarded $3 million to advance tuberculosis vaccine research
December 07, 2015
Project to expand on previous OHSU breakthroughs in cell and immune system discovery
New leads in the struggle against a formidable leukemia
December 04, 2015
A coordinated push to decrypt a complex form of leukemia is delivering a trove of new drug candidates and treatment ideas, a dozen of which will be presented at the American Society of Hematology Annual Meeting in Orlando, Florida (Dec. 5-8).
What really makes cancer drug ‘super responders’ exceptional survival stories?
November 09, 2015
Reports of “super responders” – patients who do exceptionally well on a cancer treatment –may be driving unfounded assumptions about the effectiveness of the drugs involved, researchers caution.
Kidney cancer’s genomic drivers revealed
November 04, 2015
A massive search involving cancer researchers across the U.S. and Canada has revealed many of the altered genes and cell signaling pathways that drive a poorly understood form of kidney cancer, primary papillary renal cell carcinoma.
Bay Area Cancer Center first to join OHSU Knight Cancer Network
October 31, 2015
Bay Area Hospital and the OHSU Knight Cancer Institute have agreed to launch the first site of the newly formed OHSU Knight Cancer Network at the Bay Area Cancer Center in Coos Bay, Oregon.
‘Exception from informed consent’ study will assess emergency treatment for prolonged seizures
October 15, 2015
Oregon Health & Science University is one of 40 centers across the country participating in an emergency medicine study that aims to save and improve the lives of adults and children 2 years and older whose life-threatening seizures are resistant to standard treatment.
Immunovia, OHSU collaborating on early detection test for pancreatic cancer
October 04, 2015
Immunovia AB and the Knight Cancer Institute at Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) formed a collaboration to confirm, validate and commercialize a blood test for the early diagnosis of pancreatic cancer. The test called IMMray™ PanCan-d analyses a patient’s immune system for early signs of disease. The collaboration will also enable researchers to explore biomarkers for a number of other cancer types.
Research: Face-to-face socializing more powerful than phone calls, emails in guarding against depression in older adults
October 04, 2015
In a slight knock on digital and telephone communications, a new study points to the unsurpassed mental health benefits of regular face-to-face social interactions among older adults.