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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...

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...

Learning How Cancer Cells Coordinate and Collaborate to Multiply and Metastasize

March 16, 2020
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Osaka, Japan — Cancer cells are known to migrate and collaborate to form networks that function as conduits providing access to nutrients and blood vessels. Now, researchers in Japan have generated...

Cancerous Tumours, Surrounding Cells Illuminated by New Imaging Agent

March 12, 2020
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St. Louis, MO — Scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have developed a new imaging agent that could let doctors identify not only multiple types of tumours but the surrounding...

Nanosize Device ‘Uncloaks’ Cancer Cells in Mice and Reveals Them to Immune System

February 27, 2020
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Bethesda, MD — Scientists at Johns Hopkins report they have designed and successfully tested an experimental, super small package able to deliver molecular signals that tag implanted human cancer cells...

New Technique Allows Scientists to ‘Listen in’ on Cancer Cells

February 21, 2020
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London, UK —Scientists have a developed a new technique to decipher how millions of individual cells are communicating with each other in miniature tumours grown in the lab, known as organoids, according...

Targeting Cancer Microenvironment

February 6, 2020
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Vienna, Austria — The recognition of bacterial infections or foreign substances is mediated and controlled by the human immune system. This innate and adaptive immune system comprises the most important...

Can Solar Technology Kill Cancer Cells?

October 28, 2019
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East Lansing, MI — Scientific breakthroughs don’t always happen in labs. For Sophia and Richard Lunt, Michigan State University researchers, many of their breakthroughs happen during neighbourhood...

3D-Printed Device Finds ‘Needle in a Haystack’ Cancer Cells by Removing Hay

October 28, 2019
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Atlanta, GA — Finding a handful of cancer cells hiding among billions of blood cells in a patient sample can be like finding a needle in a haystack. In a new approach enabled by 3D-printed cell traps,...

New Diagnostic Method Finds Aggressive Tumours

October 18, 2019
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Solna, Sweden — Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed a new cheap method that can identify highly heterogeneous tumours that tend to be very aggressive, and therefore need to...

Aggressive Breast Cancers Store Large Amounts of Energy, Which Enables It to Spread

October 7, 2019
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Ann Arbor, MI — Cancer cells – especially the more aggressive ones – seem to have an ability to change. It’s how they evade treatment and spread throughout the body. But how does...

Cancer Tumours Form Surprising Connections with Healthy Brain Cells

September 30, 2019
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Bergen, Norway — In a collaborative study by the University of Bergen, Universität Heidelberg and Das Deutsche Krebsforschungszentrum in Germany, researchers discovered that cancer cells in the brain...

Cancer Cells Prefer a ‘Comfort Cruise,’ Follow Predictable Paths of Least Resistance, Says Study

September 15, 2019
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Nashville, TN — New research from a group of Vanderbilt biomedical engineers reveals that while cancer cells move quickly in metastasis, they’re rather lazy in which paths they choose. According...

Nano-Thermometer Takes Temperature Inside Cells

August 22, 2019
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Houston, TX — How do you know a cell has a fever? Take its temperature. That’s now possible thanks to research by Rice University scientists who used the light-emitting properties of particular...

Cancer Control: Structure of Important Transport Protein Solved

June 20, 2019
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Bern, Switzerland — Certain cancer cells depend on exporting the metabolite lactate, which accumulates during the generation on energy. Lactate plays an important role in many biochemical and cellular...

New Methods from Material Sciences in Physics Find Way into Cancer Research

June 18, 2019
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København, Denmark — A new study on the behaviour of water in cancer cells shows how methods usually limited to physics can be of great use in cancer research. The researchers, Murillo Longo Martins...

A New Approach to Targeting Cancer Cells

May 18, 2019
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Riverside, CA — A University of California, Riverside, research team has come up with a new approach to targeting cancer cells that circumvents a challenge faced by currently available cancer drugs. A...

Measuring Chromosome Imbalance could Clarify Cancer Prognosis

May 14, 2019
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Cambridge, MA — Most human cells have 23 pairs of chromosomes. Any deviation from this number can be fatal for cells, and several genetic disorders, such as Down syndrome, are caused by abnormal numbers...

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