Cancer
BU researcher awarded grant to better understand breast cancer
(Boston)– Why do African-American women die at a higher rate and experience more aggressive breast tumors than white women? Researchers...
Study sheds light on role of mutations in metastasized cancer
Approximately 95 percent of cancer mortality is caused by metastasis. This fact is what motivates many cancer researchers to focus...
New microfluidic device offers means for studying electric field cancer therapy
Researchers at MIT’s research center in Singapore have developed a new microfluidic device that tests the effects of electric fields...
New detection method paves the way for 100 percent detection of esophageal cancer
Recognizing the early stages of esophageal cancer is difficult because it can easily be missed. TU Eindhoven has therefore been...
Engineers design programmable RNA vaccines
“This nanoformulation approach allows us to make vaccines against new diseases in only seven days, allowing the potential to deal...
Rice scientists streamline synthesis of potential cancer drug
HOUSTON – (June 23, 2016) – A team led by Rice University scientists has improved the production of a potent...
New cancer immunotherapy drugs linked to arthritis in some patients
Case reports on 13 cancer patients suggest that a small number of cancer patients taking the immunotherapy drugs ipilimumab and...
A strategy for “convergence” research to transform biomedicine
What if lost limbs could be regrown? Cancers detected early with blood or urine tests, instead of invasive biopsies? Drugs...
High-tech scans can spare lymphoma patients intensive chemo
HODGKIN lymphoma patients can be spared the serious side effects of chemotherapy thanks to high-tech scans that can predict the...
New research paves the way for improved individual treatment of patients with cancer
Bladder cancer is a frequent disease affecting approximately 1,900 persons in Denmark annually. A high number of these patients only...
Summer session fruit fly data leads to promising new target in colorectal cancer
In summer 2011, University of Colorado Cancer Center investigators Joaquín Espinosa, PhD, and Matthew Galbraith, PhD, taught a summer symposium...
Cancer-preventing protein finds its own way in our DNA
Geneticists from KU Leuven, Belgium, have shown that tumour protein TP53 knows exactly where to bind to our DNA to...
African subterranean animal exhibits ‘extraordinary’ cancer resistance
Naked mole-rats (NMR) are the longest-living rodent species and exhibit ‘extraordinary’ resistance to cancer. Mole-rats live up to 30 years,...
Starving cancer cells by blocking their metabolism
Scientists at EPFL have found a way to starve liver cancer cells by blocking a protein that is required for...
Pretargeted radioimmunotherapy may eliminate colorectal cancer
Credit: Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center San Diego, Calif. – An emerging cancer therapy has colorectal tumors surrounded. Presenters at...
Blood test predicts success of neuroendocrine cancer therapy
San Diego, Calif. – Malignant neuroendocrine tumors (NETs) are relatively rare, notoriously difficult to treat, and associated with poor long-term...
Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR pathway in prostate cancer development and progression
The research article – Targeting the PI3K/AKT/mTOR Pathway in Prostate Cancer Development and Progression: Insight to Therapy, by Dr Claudio...
Body’s own gene editing system generates leukemia stem cells
Cancer stem cells are like zombies — even after a tumor is destroyed, they can keep coming back. These cells...
Cellular ‘racetrack’ accurately clocks brain cancer cell movement
Johns Hopkins Medicine researchers report they have developed an experimental laboratory test that accurately clocks the “speed” of human brain...
New compound shows potential for triple-negative breast cancer
Credit: University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center ANN ARBOR, Mich. – Researchers at the University of Michigan have identified a...
