Virginia Is The Fourth State To Ban The Use Of Animals In Cosmetic Testing

Virginia Is The Fourth State To Ban The Use Of Animals In Cosmetic Testing

Governor Ralph Northam officially signed the Virginia Humane Cosmetics Act [VHCA] through the law, making Virginia the fourth US country prohibiting cosmetic testing on animals. Legislator Jennifer Boysko and Representative Kaye Kory authored the bill, which seeks to prohibit the research into new cosmetics and the selling of animal-tested cosmetic products by January 1st of…

A Heavy Tumor Mutation Burden Predicts Immunotherapy Response: A Survey

A Heavy Tumor Mutation Burden Predicts Immunotherapy Response: A Survey

According to a study done by researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, a high rate of mutations in the genome within a tumor, dubbed high tumor mutation burden (TMB), was just beneficial for predicting clinical reactions to the checkpoint of the immune system inhibitors in a subset of cancer types. A…

Chemotherapy Might Not Always Work

Chemotherapy Might Not Always Work

Chemotherapy is a treatment for cancer using anti-cancer drugs. Chemotherapy is done for various reasons like to cure cancer, increase life span, reduce symptoms, etc. Scientists at Weill Cornell Medicine have discovered that cancer cells have the ability to defend against chemotherapy by way of active hibernation techniques, which will help them to resist the…

Beta-Blockers May Not Be The Reason

Beta-Blockers May Not Be The Reason

A Research done recently shows that Beta-blockers treat many types of cardiovascular diseases and its unlikely that they will cause depression-like in similar treatments. Though depression can still occur when the beta-blocker therapy is ongoing but according to the research they aren’t the cause for the occurrence of the depression. Beta-Blockers May Not Be The…