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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...

Researchers Study How Altered Protein Degradation Contributes to Development of Tumours

December 3, 2019
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Barcelona, Spain — To understand the molecular bases of cancer, it is imperative to determine the genetic alterations responsible for the development and spread of this condition and to identify the...

Automated Technique Helps Identify Cancer Cell Metabolism Inhibitors

December 2, 2019
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Los Angeles, CA — UCLA Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have developed a new automated method for testing hundreds of molecules at a time to find out which ones block cancer cells from...

Using Artificial Intelligence to Determine Whether Immunotherapy is Working

November 25, 2019
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Cleveland, OH — Scientists from the Case Western Reserve University digital imaging lab, already pioneering the use of Artificial Intelligence (AI) to predict whether chemotherapy will be successful,...

‘Combo’ Nanoplatforms for Chemotherapy

November 21, 2019
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Harbin, China — In a paper to be published in the forthcoming issue in NANO, researchers from Harbin Institute of Technology, China have systematically discussed the recent progresses, current challenges...

Glutamine-Blocking Drug Slows Tumour Growth and Strengthens Anti-Tumour Response

November 11, 2019
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Baltimore, MD — A compound developed by Johns Hopkins researchers that blocks glutamine metabolism can slow tumour growth, alter the tumour microenvironment and promote the production of durable and...

Attacking Metastatic Breast Cancer with Sound

October 28, 2019
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Sendai, Japan — Drugs can be safely delivered to cancerous lymph nodes via the lymphatic system and then released inside the nodes using sound waves. Tohoku University researchers tested the treatment...

New Chemical Weapon to Combat Cancer

October 24, 2019
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Geneva, Switzerland — The fight against cancer involves eradicating cancer cells but current treatments inevitably have negative consequences on healthy cells. Patients often develop a resistance to...

Compound Effective to Chemotherapy-Resistant Cancer Cells Identified

October 21, 2019
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Sapporo, Japan — A compound effective in killing chemotherapy-resistant glioblastoma-initiating cells (GICs) has been identified, raising hopes of producing drugs capable of eradicating refractory...

New Marker for Tumour Aggression in Neurofibromatosis Type 1

October 17, 2019
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Baltimore, MD — Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center report that their study of tumour samples from people with the rare genetic syndrome neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1) has uncovered...

Researchers Discover Link Between Two Important Products of Nitric Oxide

October 7, 2019
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São Paulo, Brazil — Ever since three US-based researchers working independently unveiled the role of nitric oxide in mediating blood vessel dilation, endothelial cell contraction and smooth muscle...

Novel Strategy Using MicroRNA Biomarkers can Distinguish Melanomas from Nevi

September 30, 2019
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San Francisco, CA — Melanoma is the least common but one of the most deadly skin cancers. It accounts for only about one percent of all cases globally, but the majority of skin cancer deaths. Accurate,...

Scientists Tackle Potential Drug Resistance by Using New Single-Cell Genetic Method

September 26, 2019
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London, UK — Using a new technique that can identify genetic profiles of individual cells, University of Notre Dame researchers modeled a breast cancer tumour’s potential resistance to a drug,...

Genetics of Cancer

September 16, 2019
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Newark, DE — University of Delaware molecular biologist Mona Batish and collaborators at Harvard Medical School and University of California, Los Angeles, have identified a new circular ribonucleic...

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