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Co-Occurrence of Cancer Driver Genes, Key to Precision Medicine

September 24, 2020
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Barcelona, Spain — Cancer driver genes are those with mutations that are essential for tumour development and spread. Led by ICREA researcher Patrick Aloy, scientists from the Structural Bioinformatics...

How do Tumour Cells Divide in the Crowd?

September 3, 2020
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Dresden, Germany — Most animal cells need to become spherical in order to divide. To achieve this round shape, the cells must round up and deform their neighbouring cells. In a growing tumour tissue,...

A Blood Test could Predict Who Benefits from Immunotherapy

August 4, 2020
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Toronto, ON — A test which detects changing levels of tumour fragments in the blood may be an easy, non-invasive and quick way to predict who will benefit from immunotherapy, a treatment option for...

Leukemia Drug Shows the Potential to Treat Aggressive Paediatric Brain Cancer

July 23, 2020
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São Paulo, Brazil — Researchers affiliated with the University of São Paulo’s Ribeirão Preto Medical School (FMRP-USP) in Brazil have demonstrated the potential of a leukaemia drug, arsenic trioxide,...

Immune Cells Infiltrating Tumours may Play Bigger Cancer Role Than Previously Thought

June 23, 2020
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La Jolla, CA — Most traditional cancer therapies target either the tumour cells themselves or indiscriminately kill any rapidly dividing cell. New findings by researchers at University of California...

New Understanding of RNA Movements can be Used to Treat Cancer

May 28, 2020
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Solna, Sweden — Research from Karolinska Institutet published today in Nature shows that an RNA molecule involved in preventing tumour formation can change its structure and thereby control protein...

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...

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...

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...

Activating Oestrogen Receptor can Stop Pancreatic Cancer Cells from Growing

May 5, 2020
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Philadelphia, PA — Activating the G protein-coupled oestrogen receptor (GPER) – a receptor found on the surface of many normal and cancer tissues – has been shown to stop pancreatic cancer...

Researchers Measure Cancer Cell Mechanics in Living Animals Using Nanoparticles

April 30, 2020
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East Lansing, MI — A first-of-its-kind nanoparticle-based in vivo imaging technique that may one day be used to help diagnose and even treat cancer has been developed by researchers collaborating from...

Promising New Treatment for Recurrent Paediatric Brain Cancer

April 28, 2020
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Houston, TX — Two paediatric brain cancers that are challenging to treat if they recur, medulloblastoma and ependymoma, are the target of a clinical trial using a new type of therapy. A multi-institutional,...

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...

On The Trail of Cancer Stem Cells

February 24, 2020
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Berlin, Germany — Two research teams from the Max Delbrück Center for Molecular Medicine and their collaborators have produced a detailed cell atlas of an entire salivary gland tumour in a mouse model,...

Characterizing RNA Alterations in Cancer

February 6, 2020
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Heidelberg, Germany — Researchers at EMBL-EBI were among the leaders of a large international consortium that carried out a joint analysis of data from over 1000 donors of more than 25 cancer types,...

Researchers Capture First Images of Oxygen in Cancer Tumours during Radiation Therapy

January 30, 2020
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Lebanon, NH — Oxygen in cancer tumours is known to be a major factor that helps radiation therapy be successful. Hypoxia, or starvation of oxygen, in solid tumors is also thought to be an important...

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...

Improved Brain Chip for Precision Medicine

January 20, 2020
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Houston, TX — The Akay Lab biomedical research team at the University of Houston is reporting an improvement on a microfluidic brain cancer chip previously developed in their lab. The new chip allows...

Evolutionarily Novel Genes Work in Tumours

December 17, 2019
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St Petersburg, Russia — A team of scientists from Peter the Great St. Petersburg Polytechnic University (SPbPU) studied the evolutionary ages of human genes and identified a new class of them expressed...

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