A drug used to slow cognitive decline in Alzheimer’s disease could offer clues on how drugs might one day be able to reverse brain changes that affect learning and memory in teens and young adults who binge drink. In a study led by Duke Health and published in the journal Alcoholism: Clinical and Experimental Research,…
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Poliovirus Therapy Induces Immune Responses Against Cancer
An investigational therapy using modified poliovirus to attack cancer tumors appears to unleash the body’s own capacity to fight malignancies by activating an inflammation process that counter’s the ability of cancer cells to evade the immune system. Describing this process in a paper published Sept. 20 in the journal Science Translational Medicine, Duke Cancer Institute researchers…