Cancer
Scientists awarded $1.3 million to optimize probes to test new approach to cancer treatment
JUPITER, FL – June 7, 2016 – Scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have been...
New mutation-testing technology has potential to guide targeted lung and colorectal cancer therapies
Philadelphia, PA, June 8, 2016 – A new technology suitable for practical clinical testing can detect KRAS gene mutations in...
New types of blood cancer discovered in children
Through a detailed study of leukaemia cells from more than 200 children, a research group at Lund University in Sweden...
Scientists use modelling to show the role of metabolism and signaling in cancer metastasis
Researchers have built a model to investigate the metastasis of cancer by examining the metabolism of breast epithelial cells and...
A new approach to chemical synthesis
MIT chemists have devised a new way to synthesize a complex molecular structure that is shared by a group of...
Personalized medicine leads to better outcomes for patients with cancer
In a meta-analysis of hundreds of clinical trials involving thousands of patients, researchers at University of California San Diego School...
ASCO: Finally, targeted therapies for triple-negative breast cancer
At the American Society for Clinical Oncology (ASCO) Annual Meeting 2016, researchers present results of three clinical trials using new...
Cancer cells become more aggressive from fat storage
It has been established that not all cancer cells are equally aggressive – most can be neutralised with radiation and...
Imaging biomarker distinguishes prostate cancer tumor grade
Physicians have long used magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) to detect cancer but results of a University of California San Diego...
Novel mouse model sheds new light on autism spectrum disorder
MADISON, Wis. — A new mouse model, developed by researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, is the first to show...
Cancer studies should include overweight, elderly mice
ST. LOUIS — Researchers should include laboratory mice that are old and obese in their studies of immunotherapy treatments for...
A combined approach to treating metastatic melanoma
Oncologists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have successfully treated a patient with metastatic melanoma by combining two different...
New 3-D hydrogel biochips prove to be superior in detecting bowel cancer at early stages
Researchers from the Moscow Institute of Physics and Technology (MIPT), the Engelhardt Institute of Molecular Biology (EIMB RAS), the Institute...
Human trials of cancer drug PAC-1 continue with new investment
Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. — Clinical trials of the anti-cancer agent PAC-1 are continuing to expand,...
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