Dr. Edyta Greer, Baruch College

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Liquid Biopsies May Predict When Tumors Return

Popular Media Report: 

Forster, Victoria. 2018. “Liquid Biopsy ‘Weather Forecast’ Can Predict When Tumors Will Return.” Forbes, August 30.  https://www.forbes.com/sites/victoriaforster/2018/08/30/liquid-biopsy-weather-forecast-can-predict-when-tumors-will-return/#7e9c1a374d65. 

Peer-Reviewed Journal

Khurum H. Khan, David Cunningham, Benjamin Werner, Georgios Vlachogiannis, Inmaculada Spiteri, Timon Heide, Javier Fernandez Mateos, et al. 2018. “Longitudinal Liquid Biopsy and Mathematical Modeling of Clonal Evolution Forecast Time to Treatment Failure in the PROSPECT-C Phase II Colorectal Cancer Clinical Trial.” Cancer Discovery.  DOI: 10.1158/2159-8290.CD-17-0891

Exercise Helps Prevent Dementia

Servick, Kelly. “How Does Exercise Keep Your Brain Young?” Science | AAAS. September 06, 2018. Accessed September 07, 2018. http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/how-does-exercise-keep-your-brain-young.

http://www.sciencemag.org/news/2018/09/how-does-exercise-keep-your-brain-young

From The Official Journal of the American Academy of Neurology:

Hörder, Helena, Lena Johansson, XinXin Guo, Gunnar Grimby, Silke Kern, Svante Östling, and Ingmar Skoog. “Midlife Cardiovascular Fitness and Dementia: A 44-year Longitudinal Population Study in Women.” Neurology, April 10, 2018. doi:10.1212/WNL.0000000000005290.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5894933/

Animals Assisting With Therapy

Popular Artcile:

Kingson, Jennifer. 2018.“As Animal-Assisted Therapy Thrives, Enter the Cats.” The New York Times, September 6, https://nyti.ms/2MOquWy                                            

Primary Source:

Lynette A. Hart, Abigail P. Thigpen, Neil H. Willits, Leslie A. Lyons, Irva Hertz-Picciotto and Benjamin L. Hart. 2018. “Affectionate Interactions of Cats with Children Having Autism Spectrum Disorder.” Frontier Journal, March 12. https://doi.org/10.3389/fvets.2018.00039

 

 

Drug-filled Nanocapsules to Fight Cancer

Popular Article:

Sandoiu, Ana. 2018. “New Drug-filled Nanocapsules may Fight Cancer more Effectively.” Medical News Today, July 24.

Primary Source: 

Tonigold, Manuel, Johanna Simon, Diego Estupiñán, Maria Kokkinopoulou, Jonas Reinholz, Ulrike Kintzel, Anke Kaltbeitzel, Patricia Renz, Matthias P. Domogalla, Kerstin Steinbrink, Ingo Lieberwirth, Daniel Crespy, Katharina Landfester, and Volker Mailänder. 2018. “Pre-adsorption of Antibodies Enables Targeting of Nanocarriers Despite a Biomolecular Corona.” Nature Nanotechnology 13: 862–869. DOI: 10.1038/s41565-018-0171-6.

The Use of New ‘Nano-Swarm’ Robots on Blood Clots

Popular Article:

https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/health/nano-swarm-robots-intl/index.html

Wang, Cat. “Hong Kong Scientists Develop New ‘nano-swarm’ Robots.” CNN. September
04, 2018. Accessed September 06, 2018.
https://www.cnn.com/2018/09/04/health/nano-swarm-robots-intl/index.html.

 

Primary Source:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05749-6#Sec12

Yu, Jiangfan, Ben Wang, Xingzhou Du, Qianqian Wang, and Li Zhang. “Ultra-extensible
Ribbon-like Magnetic Microswarm.” Nature News. August 21, 2018. Accessed
September 06, 2018. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-018-05749-6#Sec12.

Weight Gain During Pregnancy

Popular Article:

O’Connor, Anahad. 2018. “Diet and Exercise May Stem Weight Gain of Pregnancy, but Should Begin Early.” The New York Times, September 6. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/06/well/family/diet-and-exercise-may-stem-weight-gain-of-pregnancy-but-should-begin-early.html.

Primary Source:

Peaceman, Alan et. al. 2018. “Lifestyle Interventions Limit Gestational Weight Gain in Women with Overweight or Obesity: LIFE‐Moms Prospective Meta‐Analysis.” Wiley Online Library, September 6. https://doi.org/10.1002/oby.22250.

Artificial Intelligence Used to Predict Cancer Growth

Popular Report:

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-45381947

“Artificial Intelligence Used to Predict Cancer Growth.” BBC News, BBC, 1 Sept. 2018, www.bbc.com/news/uk-scotland-45381947.

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Primary Article:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-018-0108-x

Giulio Caravagna, Ylenia Giarratano, Daniele Ramazzotti, Ian Tomlinson, Trevor A. Graham, Guido Sanguinetti, and Andrea Sottoriva. “Detecting repeated cancer evolution from multi-region tumor sequencing data.” Nature Methods. August 31, 2018. Accessed September 06, 2018. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41592-018-0108-x

Gene-Editing Provides Hope for Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy (DMD)

Popular Article:

Therrien, Alex. 2018. “Gene-editing Hope for Muscular Dystrophy” BBC News, August 30. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/health-45355556

Primary Source:

Amoasii, Leonela, John C.w. Hildyard, Hui Li, Efrain Sanchez-Ortiz, Alex Mireault, Daniel Caballero, Rachel Harron, et al. 2018 “Gene Editing Restores Dystrophin Expression in a Canine Model of Duchenne Muscular Dystrophy.” Science, August 30. DOI:10.1126/science.aau1549.

Using Immunotherapy Drugs to Slow Melanoma in the Brain

Popular Article:

Grady, Denise. 2018. “Immunotherapy Drugs Slow Skin Cancer That Has Spread to the Brain” The New York Times, August 22. https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/health/melanoma-immunotherapy-brain-tumors.html

Primary Source:

Tawbi, Hussein A., Peter A. Forsyth, Alain Algazi, Omid Hamid, F. Stephen Hodi, Stergios J. Moschos, Nikhil I. Khushalani, Karl Lewis, Christopher D. Lao, Michael A. Postow, Michael B. Atkins, Marc S. Ernstoff, David A. Reardon, Igor Puzanov, Ragini R. Kudchadkar, Reena P. Thomas, Ahmad Tarhini, Anna C. Pavlick, Joel Jiang, Alexandre Avila, Sheena Demelo, and Kim Margolin. 2018. “Combined Nivolumab and Ipilimumab in Melanoma Metastatic to the Brain.” The New England Journal of Medicine 379:722-730. DOI: 10.1056/NEJMoa1805453.

 

Artificial Pancreas to Help Type 2 Diabetics

Popular Report

Nedelman, Michael. 2018. “New Evidence for ‘artificial Pancreas’ in Type 2 Diabetes.” CNN, June 26. https://www.cnn.com/2018/06/26/health/artificial-pancreas-diabetes-hospital-study/index.html.

Primary Source

Waseem Majeed, Hood Thabit. 2018. “Closed-loop insulin delivery: current status of diabetes technologies and future prospects.” Expert Review of Medical Devices 5660, 1-12.

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