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Fungus-fighting drug may make mild flu meaner

The findings suggest that patients receiving the antifungal therapy may be functionally immunocompromised and more vulnerable to influenza and other viral infections, the researchers said. "Many critically ill cancer and bone marrow transplant patients are treated with Amphotericin B-based therapies each year," said Abraham Brass of the University of Massachusetts Medical School (UMMS)…

New evidence that aging tumor cells may be an effective cancer treatment

"Normally, this pathway is responsible for senescence and suppressing proliferation of B cells," said Hong Zhang, PhD, assistant professor of cell & developmental biology at UMMS and senior author of the study. "However, human DLBCL show low levels of Smurf2 expression; these low levels affect a pathway that encourages un-checked cell division and tumor growth. …