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The second round of STARS escape room implementations has been a success
One and a half year after its debut, the STARS Game project has just reached its midpoint, Thus, the four partners have already delivered two rounds of workshops and implementations. Everyone’s experience regarding the escape room ended up being very positive and rewarding.
Ernest Nadal presents at ASCO the benefits of treating patients with lung cancer and brain metastases with chemo-immunotherapy
A group from IDIBELL, Catalan Institute of Oncology, and the Spanish Lung Cancer Group (GECP) have shown that the combination of atezolizumab with carboplatin and pemetrexed is safe and effective as a first treatment option in a group of 40 patients.
Large-scale genotyping identifies the molecular cause of two cases of familial globozoospermia
A genome-wide association study in a family with two males with infertility due to globozoospermia allows the identification of the first case of compound heterozygosis for two different mutations in the DPY19L2 gene.
A new international guideline helps advance in diagnosis and treatment of progressive pulmonary fibrosis
A new international consensus guideline based on scientific evidence represents an improvement in the diagnosis and treatment of patients with certain fibrosing lung diseases.
A new treatment is effective for advanced HER2-low breast cancer
Treatment with trastuzumab deruxtecan, a combination of a targeted therapy with chemotherapy, increases progression-free survival of the disease and overall survival compared with the usual treatments.
Researchers discover a set of poor prognosis markers in patients with colon and rectal cancer
This is a group of genes that are expressed in cancer cells that survive chemotherapy treatment. Its activity generates resistance to treatment and a greater capacity to cause metastasis.
The doctoral thesis of Dr. Xavier Solanich, awarded by the SCBMI
The doctoral thesis of Dr. Xavier Solanich, entitled Mechanisms involved in the inflammatory response and new therapeutic targets in COVID-19, has been awarded by the Catalanobalearic Society of Internal Medicine (SCBMI) ex aequo with the Bartolomé Cabrer Prize for the best doctoral thesis read during the year 2021.
One research allows the removal of brain tumors preserving an area of the language better
An investigation will now allow brain tumors to be removed preserving better an area of language using an imaging technique that describes, according to the position and degree of the tumor, the type of displacement or destruction of a part of the brain directly related to the semantics and spelling of language.
In vitro and in vivo assays identifies a combination of two drugs that have the potential to improve the treatment of MPNST
The screening of a drug library against peripheral nerve sheath tumors identifies the combination of two compounds that reduce tumor growth in two mouse models.