Introduction: Multiple myeloma (MM) is a relapsing, debilitating blood cancer which remains incurable despite advances in treatments. Patients typically receive multiple lines of treatment, to which they become refractory, thereby limiting treatment options. B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) bispecific antibodies (BsAbs) represent a novel modality of treatment that has significant efficacy for relapsed or refractory patients.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Allogeneic bone marrow transplantation remains the most potent curative therapy for acute myeloid leukemia (AML) and myelodysplastic syndrome (MDS) due to the graft-versus-tumor effect provided by donor cells. Donor chimerism is utilized early after transplantation to evaluate engraftment and to monitor the persistence of donor hematopoiesis.
Objective(s): Literature is conflicting regarding to the prognostic utility of early mixed donor chimerism, chimerism kinetic patterns as well as factors associated with it and we sought to clarify this uncertainty.
Black boys and young men are disproportionately burdened with navigating contexts of community violence resulting from race-based structural inequities and concentrated disadvantage. Despite this chronic adversity, many Black boys and young men thrive; however, resilience research has traditionally focused on identifying individual- and family-level factors that support resilience. Research has yet to fully examine community-level resources that facilitate processes of resilience for Black boys and young men in the contexts of trauma, violence, and poverty.
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October 2024
Yoshimura origami is a classical folding pattern that has inspired many deployable structure designs. Its applications span from space exploration, kinetic architectures and soft robots to even everyday household items. However, despite its wide usage, Yoshimura has been fixated on a set of design constraints to ensure its flat foldability.
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