• Neighborhood Analysis Highlights Role Of Macrophages In ER+ Breast Cancers

    Bio-IT World | When it comes to breast cancer, the most commonly occurring estrogen receptor-positive (ER+) variety is a poor candidate for treatment with conventional immunotherapies designed to help the patient’s own immune system fight back. Unlike triple-negative breast cancer, ER+ tumors don’t have many infiltrating T cells so potentiating their function alone doesn’t make much of a difference.

    Mar 22, 2023

  • Japanese Medical Team Discovers Gut Microbiota to Diagnose and Treat Dementia with Lewy Bodies

    Bio-IT World | A research team from the Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine, Japan, discovered three gut bacteria types that may lead to predicting and treating dementia with Lewy bodies.

    Mar 21, 2023

  • Current Microbiome Analyses Turning Up High Number Of False-Positives

    Bio-IT World | Insufficient taxonomic information in public sequence records is a longstanding problem that was again brought to light in a recent study of simulated microbial communities. Researchers in Spain, using standard techniques to explore virtual microbiome communities, found that results obtained from DNA analyses bear little resemblance to the real-world bacterial populations being imitated and many of the detected species are not actually present.

    Mar 16, 2023