Cancer
Virus-fighting genes linked to mutations in cancer
Researchers have found a major piece of genetic evidence that confirms the role of a group of virus-fighting genes in...
3D printing cancer cells to mimic tumours
A group of researchers in China and the US have successfully created a 3D model of a cancerous tumour using...
Researchers explain how our immune system kills abnormal blood cells
A team of researchers at the IRCM, led by André Veillette, MD, explains how our immune system kills abnormal blood...
Blood test could provide rapid, accurate method of detecting solid cancers
A blood sample could one day be enough to diagnose many types of solid cancers, or to monitor the amount...
Zombie cancer cells eat themselves to live
A University of Colorado Cancer Center study recently published in the journal Cell Reports and presented today at the American...
Major breakthrough in developing new cancer drugs
The Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) at the Université de Montréal (UdeM), in collaboration with the Maisonneuve-Rosemont...
Researchers identify target for shutting down growth of prostate cancer cells
Scientists at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified an important step toward potentially shutting down the growth of prostate cancer...
Novel cancer vaccine holds promise against ovarian cancer
A novel approach to cancer immunotherapy – strategies designed to induce the immune system to attack cancer cells – may...
Simple blood test could improve treatment for deadly childhood cancer
A simple blood test* could pinpoint which children are unlikely to respond to treatment for a particularly aggressive form of...
Building a 3D model of ovarian cancer
The European Research Council (ERC) has awarded researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, a €2.43million grant...
Biochips for better cancer therapy
Cancer is the second leading cause of disease-related death in the United States, and may overtake heart disease without aggressive...
A paper diagnostic for cancer
Low-cost urine test developed by MIT engineers amplifies signals from growing tumors to detect disease. Cancer rates in developing nations...
Hijack cancer migration mechanism
One factor that makes glioblastoma cancers so difficult to treat is that malignant cells from the tumors spread throughout the...
Cancer cells use body’s wound-healing mechanism to spread
Metastasis, the spread of cancer cells from a primary tumour to different organs, is responsible for more than 90% of...
DNA-Built Nanostructures Safely Target, Image Cancer Tumors
A team of researchers at the University of Toronto has discovered a method of assembling "building blocks" of gold nanoparticles...
First Drug to Target Important Cancer Gene
In the field of drug design, the protein K-Ras is legendary. It’s been on everyone’s “target” list for more than...
Surviving Ovarian Cancer: Rutgers Scientists Attack Drug Resistant Cancer Cells
Scientists at Rutgers University have developed a targeted drug delivery system that they believe could make ovarian cancer more treatable...
