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New Discoveries Reveal How Aacute Myeloid Leukaemia Walks Line Between Growth and Cell Death

July 23, 2021
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Chicago, IL — Researchers revealed new insights into how acute myeloid leukemia (AML) develops and progresses, according to a study published in Molecular Cell on July 20, 2021. They describe a mechanism...

Preparing T Cells for the Long Haul

July 22, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Fighting a tumour is a marathon, not a sprint. For cancer-fighting T cells, the race is sometimes just too long, and the T cells quit fighting. Researchers even have a name for this...

Noninvasive Test to Detect Cancer Cells and Pinpoint Their Location

July 19, 2021
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Cambridge, MA — Most of the tests that doctors use to diagnose cancer — such as mammography, colonoscopy, and CT scans — are based on imaging. More recently, researchers have also developed...

Preventing Lung Cancer’s Unwelcome Return

July 15, 2021
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Cold Spring Harbor, NY — When a doctor gives a patient antibiotics for a bacterial infection, they usually require them to finish the entire treatment, even when symptoms go away. This is to ensure...

Researchers Discover New Pathway to Tackle Follicular Lymphoma

July 14, 2021
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Madrid, Spain — For their own benefit and to grow beyond control, tumours manipulate cell signals to make it appear as if the cells have the nutrients they need. That is the case in follicular lymphoma,...

Thyroid Cancer Now Diagnosed with Machine Learning-Powered Photoacoustic/Ultrasound Imaging

July 12, 2021
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Pohang, South Korea — A lump in the thyroid gland is called a thyroid nodule, and 5-10% of all thyroid nodules are diagnosed as thyroid cancer. Thyroid cancer has a good prognosis, a high survival...

Relationship between Chromosomal Instability and Senescence Revealed in Fly Drosophila

July 9, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — Chromosomal instability is a feature of solid tumours such as carcinoma. Likewise, cellular senescence is a process that is highly related to cellular ageing and its link to cancer...

How an Unfolding Protein can Induce Programmed Cell Death

July 8, 2021
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Groningen, Netherlands — The death of cells is well regulated. If it occurs too much, it can cause degenerative diseases. Too little, and cells can become tumours. Mitochondria, the power plants of...

Potential Drug Target for Difficult-to-Treat Breast Cancer: RNA-Binding Proteins

July 6, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — In cancer research, it’s a common goal to find something about cancer cells — some sort of molecule — that drives their ability to survive, and determine if that molecule...

Reversal Speeds Creation of Important Molecule

July 1, 2021
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Houston, TX — The story of halichondrin B, an inspirational molecule obtained from a marine creature, goes back to the molecule’s discovery in an ocean sponge in 1986. Though it has been...

Bigger may not Always be Better: Density Governs Receptor Activation on Immune Cells

June 29, 2021
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Southampton, UK — Scientists from within the Antibody and Vaccine Group at the University of Southampton have gained novel insights into how an important class of immune receptors called tumour necrosis...

Hard-Working Enzyme Keeps Immune Cells in Line

June 29, 2021
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La Jolla, CA — Researchers at La Jolla Institute for Immunology (LJI) have shed light on a process in immune cells that may explain why some people develop cardiovascular diseases. Their research,...

Sleeper Cells: Newly Discovered Stem Cell Resting Phase could Put Brain Tumours to Sleep

June 29, 2021
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Tempe, AZ — Christopher Plaisier, an assistant professor of biomedical engineering in the Ira A. Fulton Schools of Engineering at Arizona State University, and Samantha O’Connor, a biomedical...

Loss of Circadian Regulation Allows for Increase in Glucose Production during Lung Cancer

June 29, 2021
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Irvine, CA — New research from the University of California, Irvine reveals how the circadian regulation of glucose production in the liver is lost during lung cancer progression, and how the resulting...

Mini-Brains Reveal Cause of Rare Syndromes

June 28, 2021
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Trondheim, Norway — The rarity of these syndromes, caused by damage to a gene named HUWE1, means very few children are affected. Of course, the low absolute numbers are little consolation for children...

Searching for the Cell of Origin of Childhood Brain Cancer

June 28, 2021
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Trentino, Italy — The study was conducted by an international collaboration involving the research team led by Luca Tiberi of the Armenise-Harvard Laboratory of Brain Cancer at the Department of Cellular,...

Gastrulation Research Reveals Novel Details about Embryonic Development

June 28, 2021
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Neuherberg, Germany — Scientists from Helmholtz Zentrum München revise the current textbook knowledge about gastrulation, the formation of the basic body plan during embryonic development. Their study...

There’s more to Genes than DNA: How Mum and Dad Add Something Extra, Just for You

June 23, 2021
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Bath, UK — Biologists at the Universities of Bath and Vienna have discovered 71 new ‘imprinted’ genes in the mouse genome, a finding that takes them a step closer to unravelling some of...

Researchers Discover How the Intestinal Epithelium Folds and Moves by Measuring Forces

June 22, 2021
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Barcelona, Spain — The human intestine is made up of more than 40 square meters of tissue, with a multitude of folds on its internal surface that resemble valleys and mountain peaks in order to increase...

Carcinogen-Exposed Cells Provide Clues in Fighting Treatment-Resistant Cancers

June 21, 2021
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Boston, MA — Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) have discovered a biological mechanism that transforms cells exposed to carcinogens from environmental factors like smoking and ultraviolet...

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