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Iron Nanorobots Go Undercover

May 25, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Living cells inside the body could be placed under surveillance–their location and migration noninvasively tracked in real time over many days–using a new method...

New Imaging Analysis Pipeline could Aid in Drug and Vaccine Development

May 25, 2020
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Chicago, IL — From testing drugs to developing vaccines, the close study of the immune system is key to improving real-world health outcomes. T-cells are integral to this research, as these white blood...

T-cells could be Made into Better Cancer Killers by Increasing Their Protein Production

May 25, 2020
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Charleston, SC — A team of scientists from Hollings Cancer Center at the Medical University of South Carolina (MUSC) has developed a novel flow cytometry technique that can, for the first-time, quantify...

Potentially Treatable Genetic Mutations Revealed in Subset of Prostate Cancer Patients

May 25, 2020
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Reston, VA — Prostate cancer patients who do not respond well to PSMA-targeted therapy often have potentially treatable mutations in their DNA damage-repair genes, according to research published in...

Identification of a Determining Factor in Luminal Cancer Cells

May 21, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — The Translational Control of Cell Cycle and Differentiation Lab at IRB Barcelona, led by ICREA researcher Raúl Méndez, has published a study in the journal Science Advances that...

New Tool to Map the Flow of Info Within Living Cells

May 21, 2020
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Chapel Hill, NC — How do cells move? Why do they move? Why do some cancer cells move slowly while others move quickly, causing a cancerous tumour to metastasize and become much more difficult to treat...

Cancer Researchers Locate Drivers of Tumour Resistance

May 21, 2020
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San Antonio, TX — Cancer biologists at the Mays Cancer Center, home to UT Health San Antonio MD Anderson, have identified important drivers that enable tumours to change their behavior and evade anticancer...

Location, Location, Location: The Cell Membrane Facilitates RAS Protein Interactions

May 21, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Many cancer medications fail to effectively target the most commonly mutated cancer genes in humans, called RAS. Now, Salk Professor Geoffrey Wahl and a team of scientists have uncovered...

Nanobowls Serve up Chemotherapy Drugs to Cancer Cells

May 20, 2020
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Washington, DC — For decades, scientists have explored the use of liposomes — hollow spheres made of lipid bilayers — to deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumour cells. But drugs can sometimes...

Genome-Wide Pattern Found in Tumours from Brain Cancer Patients Predicts Life Expectancy

May 19, 2020
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Salt Lake City, UT — For the past 70 years, the best indicator of life expectancy for a patient with glioblastoma (GBM) — the most common and the most aggressive brain cancer — has simply...

Cancer Cells’ Growth Amid Crowding Reveals Nuanced Role for Known Oncogene

May 18, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Like subway com muters on a crowded train, cells generally prefer not to be packed in too tightly. In fact, they have set up mechanisms to avoid this, a phenomenon called “contact...

Assassin Cells Armed with Anticancer Drugs Kill Cancer Masses

May 14, 2020
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Pohang, South Korea — There are immune cells in our bodies that directly destroy infected or cancer cells – they are called natural killer cells. Recently, a POSTECH research team has developed...

First Epigenetic Study in 3D Human Cancer Cells

May 14, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Frequently, promising cancer therapies fail when applied to patients in the real clinical setting. This occurs despite many of these new treatments demonstrating promising results...

Combo of Fasting Plus Vitamin C is Effective for Hard-to-Treat Cancers, Study Shows

May 14, 2020
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Los Angeles, CA — Scientists from USC and the IFOM Cancer Institute in Milan have found that a fasting-mimicking diet could be more effective at treating some types of cancer when combined with vitamin...

Blood Cells could Serve as ‘Thermometer’ to Detect Breast Cancer

May 14, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Immune system cells in the blood of breast cancer patients undergo alterations early in the disease course, according to a study published in the journal Clinical...

Researchers Find Protein That Helps Cancer Cells to Survive

May 13, 2020
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Copenhagen, Denmark — In a new study, researchers from the University of Copenhagen have discovered two important functions of a protein called RTEL1 during cell division. The researchers hope that...

International Research Improves Quality of CT Scan Imagery

May 12, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Computed tomography, or CT, utilizes computational processes to combine many X-ray measurements taken from different angles of the body to produce tomographic images. This non-invasive...

Epithelial GPS: Position of RNAi Machinery is Associated with Epithelial Identity

May 12, 2020
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Charleston, SC — Epithelial cells are held together and connected by several different types of structures that form cell-cell contacts. One of these structures, found near the top surface of the cell,...

Plasma Medicine Research Highlights Antibacterial Effects and Potential Uses

May 12, 2020
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State College, PA — As interest in the application of plasma medicine — the use of low-temperature plasma (LTP) created by an electrical discharge to address medical problems — continues...

Novel Radiotracer Meets Gold Standard for Imaging Prostate Cancer

May 12, 2020
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Tel Aviv, Israel — The novel radiopharmaceutical 18F-PSMA-1007 is both effective and readily available for detecting malignant prostate cancer lesions, according to research published in the April...

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