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Iron Nanorobots Show Their True Mettle

January 28, 2020
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Thuwal, Saudi Arabia — Drug-coated iron nanowires that can be guided to the site of a tumour using an external magnetic field before activating a three-step cancer-killing mechanism could provide an...

Adding MS Drug to Targeted Cancer Therapy May Improve Glioblastoma Outcomes, Study Suggests

August 9, 2019
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La Jolla, CA — Glioblastoma is an aggressive form of brain cancer that infiltrates surrounding brain tissue, making it extremely difficult to treat with surgery. Even when chemotherapy and radiation...

Researchers Take Key Step Toward Cancer Treatments that Leave Healthy Cells Unharmed

August 6, 2019
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Corvallis, OR — Researchers have opened up a possible avenue for new cancer therapies that don’t have the side effects that oftentimes accompany many current cancer treatments by identifying...

How Molecular Escorts Help Prevent Cancer

May 21, 2019
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München, Germany — The anti-tumour protein p53 can decide on the life or death of a cell: If it detects damage in the cell’s genome, the protein pushes the cell to suicide. New research conducted...

Tumour Microenvironment Analyzed to Increase Effectiveness of Preclinical Trials

April 2, 2019
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Kazan, Russia — It was shown that co-culturing HeLa adenocarcinoma cells, peripheral blood mononuclear cells, and mesenchymal stromal cells results in changes in the proliferative activity of the peripheral...

Researchers Target Metastasis in Fight Against Cancer

March 28, 2019
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Alberta, Canada — An experimental combination drug therapy attacking the DNA integrity of cancer cells is showing promise for a possible new cancer therapy in the future. Scientists at the University...

Research to advance cancer therapy

January 14, 2019
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New Orleans, LA — Research led by Dr. Suresh Alahari, the Fred Brazda Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has found a new role for a protein...

Stem Cells Show Promise as Drug Delivery Tool for Childhood Brain Cancer

August 30, 2018
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Chapel Hill, NC — The latest in a series of laboratory breakthroughs could lead to a more effective way to treat the most common brain cancer in children.

Molecular Switch a Potential New Target Point for Cancer and Diabetes Therapies

August 15, 2018
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Berlin, Germany – A mechanism recently discovered by scientists at the Leibniz-Forschungsinstitut für Molekulare Pharmakologie (FMP) in Berlin and at the University of Geneva has a crucial influence...

Scientists Find Missing Immune Cells that could Fight Lethal Brain Tumours

August 14, 2018
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Durham, NC — Glioblastoma brain tumours can have an unusual effect on the body’s immune system, often causing a dramatic drop in the number of circulating T-cells that help drive the body’s...

New RNA & DNA-Sequencing Platform Matches Thousands of Drugs to Late-Stage Cancer Patients

August 9, 2018
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New York, NY — A comprehensive RNA and DNA sequencing platform benefits late-stage and drug-resistant multiple myeloma patients by determining which drugs would work best for them, according to results...

Stem Cell Therapy Drug may Protect Against Smoke-Related COPD Symptoms

July 5, 2018
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Rockville, MD — A drug used in stem cell therapy to treat certain cancers may also protect against cigarette smoke-induced lung injury. The study, published ahead of print in the American Journal of...

CAR-T Immunotherapies may have a New Player

June 28, 2018
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La Jolla, CA — Study finds that natural killer cells engineered with chimeric antigen receptors are equally effective and bring different advantages with less toxicity.

Flat Worms Shed Light On Role of Migrating Stem Cells in Cancer

October 3, 2017
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Oxford, UK — A new study carried out by the University of Oxford has used flat worms to look at the role of migrating stem cells in cancer.

Blood Stem Cells Study Could Pave the Way for New Cancer Therapy, Researchers Say

March 10, 2016
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Edinburgh, Scotland — People with leukaemia could be helped by new research that sheds light on how the body produces its blood supply.

Researchers Use Skin Cells to Kill Cancer

February 26, 2016
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Chapel Hill, NC — University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill pharmacy researchers have turned skin cells into cancer-hunting stem cells that destroy brain tumours known as glioblastoma – a discovery...

New Inhibitor Found That Hacks The Programs of Cancer Stem Cells, Suppressing Tumour Growth

January 25, 2016
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Berlin, Germany — All tumor cells are the offspring of a single, aberrant cell, but they are not all alike. Only a few retain the capacity of the original cell to create an entire tumor. Such cancer...

New Material Forges the Way for ‘Stem Cell Factories’

July 22, 2015
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Nottingham, UK — If you experience a major heart attack the damage could cost you around five billion heart cells. Future stem cell treatments will require this number and more to ensure those cells...

Scientists Identify New Method to Deliver Glucose to Cancer Cells

July 21, 2015
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Los Angeles, CA — Scientists at the UCLA have identified a new sodium-dependent mechanism to deliver glucose—the body’s main fuel that drives tumour growth—to pancreatic and prostate cancer cells, offering...

The Switch that Might Tame the Most Aggressive of Breast Cancers

April 1, 2015
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Sydney, Australia — Australian researchers have found that so-called ‘triple-negative breast cancers’ are two distinct diseases that likely originate from different cell types.

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