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The Role of Circulating miRNAs and ca19-9 in Pancreatic Cancer Diagnosis

October 13, 2021
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Orchard Park, NY — Oncotarget published “The role of circulating miRNAs and CA19-9 in pancreatic cancer diagnosis” which reported that the expression profile of microRNAs was measured in...

Glioma Subtype may Hold the Secret to the Success of Immunotherapies

October 4, 2021
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Ann Arbor, MI — A common mutation in gliomas sensitizes them to immunotherapy, a finding which researchers believe could have broader therapeutic implications for all glioma patients. A single common...

How High-Fat Diets Allow Cancer Cells to Go Unnoticed

October 1, 2021
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — A high-fat diet increases the incidence of colorectal cancer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow Semir Beyaz and collaborators from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts...

Lab Grown Tumour Models could Improve Treatment for Pancreatic Cancer

September 30, 2021
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Nottingham, UK — An international team of scientists have created a three-dimensional (3D) pancreatic cancer tumour model in the laboratory, combining a bioengineered matrix and patient-derived cells...

Breast Cancers: Ruptures in Cell Nuclei Promotes Tumour Invasion

September 29, 2021
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Paris, France — The nucleus of a cell fills a crucial function: to protect cell DNA and enable its proper use. But it can be deformed, or even temporarily fractured, if the cell itself is compressed...

Antibody-Producing B Cells may be “Predestined” for Their Fates

September 29, 2021
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New York, NY — The master regulator behind the development of antibody-producing cells has been identified in a study by investigators at Weill Cornell Medicine. The findings provide new insight into...

Dual Action: RNA Binding Protein also Binds DNA and Acts as a Damage Sensor Across the Genome

September 28, 2021
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Charleston, SC — Cancer is a devastating disease and is the second leading cause of death in the U.S. One of the hallmarks of cancer is genomic instability, or the tendency to accumulate mutations...

Deep Learning Enhances Cancer Diagnostic Tools

September 27, 2021
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Urbana, IL — Yi “Edwin” Sun, a Ph.D. candidate in electrical and computer engineering at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign and member of the Beckman Institute’s Biophotonics Imaging Laboratory...

Right Program could Turn Immune Cells into Cancer Killers

September 24, 2021
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Baltimore, MD — Cancer-fighting immune cells in patients with lung cancer whose tumours do not respond to immunotherapies appear to be running on a different “program” that makes them less effective...

Allosteric Inhibition Reveals SHP2-Mediated Tumour Immunosuppression in Colon Cancer by Single-Cell Transcriptomics

September 24, 2021
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Nanjing, China — Colorectal cancer (CRC), a malignant tumour worldwide consists of microsatellite instability (MSI) and stable (MSS) phenotypes. Although SHP2 is a hopeful target for cancer therapy,...

Scientists Find a New Way to Reverse Immune Suppression in Tumours

September 23, 2021
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New York, NY — Malignant tumours can enhance their ability to survive and spread by suppressing antitumour immune cells in their vicinity, but a study led by researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine and...

New Nano Particles Suppress Resistance to Cancer Immunotherapy

September 23, 2021
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Sapporo, Japan — A specially designed lipid nanoparticle could deliver immune-signaling molecules into liver macrophage cells to overcome resistance to anti-tumour immunotherapy. Hokkaido University...

Studies Biased Toward White Genomes still Predict Cancer Risk in Diverse Groups

September 21, 2021
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Ann Arbor, MI — Data sets that are biased by having too many genomes from people with European ancestry can still be applied to other ancestry groups to predict their risk of developing breast and...

Researchers Improve Optical Tissue Clearing Method to Diagnose Cancer

September 21, 2021
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Sakai, Japan — When it comes to cancer, clarity is key. The ability to visualize cancerous tumors and metastatic tissue three dimensionally (3D) can help clinicians diagnose the precise type and stage...

Bradford Scientists find DNA ‘Switch’ in Fight Against Cancer and Dementia

September 20, 2021
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Bradford, UK — Scientists from the University of Bradford have discovered a DNA protein ‘switch’ that could help in the treatment of cancer and dementia. The findings, published this week in the...

Researchers Discover How to Obtain ‘Ideal’ 3D Cell Cultures for Cancer Research

September 20, 2021
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Moscow, Russia — A group of scientists from Hungary, Russia and Finland have developed a system capable of selecting cancer cells of a specific shape and size—spheroids. SpheroidPicker, the first AI...

Scientists Reveal How the Impact of Chemotherapy on Healthy Cells Affects the Development of Blood Cells

September 16, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — Some types of chemotherapy eliminate cancer cells by damaging their DNA. These drugs can also affect healthy cells, where the damage can generate mutations that persist after the...

Programming Synthetic Exosomes to Optimize Wound Healing

September 16, 2021
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Munich, Germany — Scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Medical Research in Heidelberg and colleagues at the DWI Leibniz Institute for Interactive Materials in Aachen have engineered synthetic...

Researchers Find Immune Cells that Guard Frequent Site of Cancer Spread

September 16, 2021
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Lebanon, NH — In the progressing field of immunotherapy, surprisingly little is known about immunity to metastatic tumours in locations such as lymph nodes, a frequent place where cancers first spread....

Engineers Grow Pancreatic “Organoids” that Mimic the Real Thing

September 14, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — MIT engineers, in collaboration with scientists at Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute, have developed a new way to grow tiny replicas of the pancreas, using either healthy or cancerous...

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