Michelle Brubaker (39, aggressive breast cancer) joined two clinical trials that shrank her tumor and protected healthy tissue. Paul Wormser’s prostate cancer trial reduced tumor size by 40% and led to remission. Their stories reflect MCC’s clinical trials bringing patients new therapies sooner.
UC San Diego professor Alan R. Saltiel was elected to the American Academy of Arts & Sciences, honoring his groundbreaking research, leadership and contributions to metabolic health and medicine.
UC San Diego biologists have identified a way to reinvigorate immune system cells, which can become exhausted after fighting disease. They found that protein recycling malfunctions after a cell burns out. Restoring a proper recycling system allows T cells to regain their cancer-fighting functions.
What if a cancer diagnosis didn’t come with weeks of waiting? Or a mosquito bite couldn’t spread disease? Our researchers are rethinking how health works — long before illness begins.
Water molecules play an active, essential role in gene transcription, helping RNA polymerase II carry out the chemical steps needed to read DNA and build RNA.
Thomas Kipps, MD, Ph, is redefining what’s possible in the fight against blood cancers. That journey began early in his career, when he became captivated by the biology of leukemia, exploring what distinguishes leukemia (blood cancer)cells from normal blood cells.
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