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TMC/UH Doctors Collaborate to Achieve Vaccine Adoption Among Minorities
Faced with a global pandemic that disproportionately affected marginalized members of the community, a pair of powerhouse physicians teamed up to ensure the entire community’s health…
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KU Mathematician Pivots Research During Pandemic, Explores Impact of Human Behavior on Disease Spread
How well do public health measures reduce the spread of COVID-19? And how do people make decisions about whether to follow those protocols? New research…
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Saint Luke’s Cardiologist Determined to Improve Diabetes Care, Outcomes
Sometimes the most dangerous element of disease is not its immediate manifestations, but secondary dangers that follow. For patients with diabetes, the most instantaneous issue…
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BioNexus KC Celebrates 20th Year Advancing Regional Life Sciences
For Immediate Release: March 1, 2021 KANSAS CITY, MO – BioNexus KC, a catalyst for innovation in animal and human health, kicks off a year-long…
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KC Researchers Awarded $200K to Advance One Health Innovation
For Immediate Release: December 10, 2020 KANSAS CITY, MO – BioNexus KC and the Hall Family Foundation have awarded four regional researchers $50,000 each to…
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EDA Awards BioNexus KC $300k Build to Scale Grant to Advance Human and Animal Health Innovation
For Immediate Release: September 24, 2020 KANSAS CITY, MO – BioNexus KC has been awarded a $300,000 Build to Scale grant from the Economic Development…
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Monthly overview of life sciences news including updates from stakeholders and regional companies.
November Glance
‘Real Big Deal for Kansas City’: Sneak Peek Inside Children’s Mercy Research Tower Children’s Mercy’s gleaming new Research Institute on Hospital Hill won’t open until…
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October Glance
The Future of Health
KU Cancer Center’s Countdown to NCI Comprehensive Application Kicks Into High Gea
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September Glance
Learn. Adapt. Thrive. 10.22.2020
EDA Awards BioNexus KC $300k Build to Scale Grant to Advance Human and Animal Health Innovation
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Expert Exchange: Children’s Mercy Physician’s Research Improves Pediatric Cancer Treatment
All creatures have a spectacular arrangement of cells. When these cells are at their best, the body functions properly. The opposite is true, however, when…
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Saint Luke’s Director Says the Answer to the Immune System’s Role in Fighting Cancer is Hidden in Plain Sight
The immune system protects the body by identifying and eliminating potential threats such as infections, toxins, and cancers, however, many cancers have developed ingenious mechanisms…
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The University of Kansas Cancer Center's Next Chapter in Immunotherapy
The concept of harnessing our body’s natural defenses to ward off disease has been around for more than 135 years. Over the last few decades, incremental steps in basic research have launched exciting breakthroughs in immune-based cancer treatment. Thanks to our ever-growing knowledge in this field, immunotherapy has found its place among cancer care’s original four pillars, which are chemotherapy, radiation, surgery and targeted therapy.
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University of Missouri Scientists Killing Cancer by Unleashing the Body’s Own Immune System
The body’s immune system is the first line of defense against infections like bacteria, viruses or cancers. Some cancers, however, have developed the art of…
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Children’s Mercy Opens New Research Building, Accelerating the Discovery of Cures and Transforming Pediatric Care
Children’s Mercy has opened its new 9-story, 375,000 square-foot, pediatric research facility located on the hospital’s Adele Hall campus in the heart of downtown Kansas…
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