Promising target for treating brain tumors in children
Findings published in Oncotarget offer new hope for children with highly aggressive brain tumors like atypical teratoid/rhabdoid tumor (AT/RT) and medulloblastoma. Previously, the authors of...
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SLU researchers discover BRCA cancer cells’ last defense
Credit: Saint Louis University ST. LOUIS -- In a new paper published in Nature Communications, a team led by Saint Louis University researcher Alessandro Vindigni,...
Ryk needs a chaperone
Credit: Image by Wen-Hsuan Chang/Wange Lu Lab/USC Ryk has made the headlines by requiring a chaperone. But don't assume that Ryk is a badly behaved...
SWOG and Hope give veterans better access to cancer trials
Credit: SWOG For the third year, SWOG, the global cancer clinical trials network, and its charity, The Hope Foundation, are giving military veterans better access...
Unforeseen new drug target discovered for acute myeloid leukemia
A study has found an unexpected new drug target for acute myeloid leukaemia (AML) that could open new avenues to develop effective treatments against this...
Immunotherapy research for head and neck cancers gets boost from V Foundation grant
Credit: UC San Diego Health A team of University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center researchers studying new drugs designed...
Stem cells in intestinal lining may shed light on behavior of cancer cells
URBANA, Ill. - The lining of the intestines - the epithelium - does more than absorb nutrients from your lunch. It grows, shrinks, and adjusts...
Drug-delivering nanoparticles seek and destroy elusive cancer stem cells
Credit: Image courtesy of Dipanjan Pan CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- University of Illinois researchers are sending tiny drug-laden nanoparticles on a mission to seek and destroy...
Mount Sinai scientists identify novel therapeutic targets for metastatic melanoma
(New York, NY - November 27, 2017) - Mount Sinai researchers have identified novel therapeutic targets for metastatic melanoma, according to a study published in...
Increased oral pathogens, decreased bacterial diversity predict precancerous stomach cancer lesions
Elevated pathogen colonization and a lack of bacterial diversity in the mouth were identified in people with precancerous lesions that could precede stomach cancer, finds...
Cancer drug starts clinical trials in human brain-cancer patients
Credit: Photo courtesy Tim Fan CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A drug that spurs cancer cells to self-destruct has been cleared for use in a clinical trial...
Cells bulge to squeeze through barriers
Credit: Video by Kaleb Naegeli, Duke University. DURHAM, N.C. -- Invasive cells deploy a trick to break through tissues and spread to other parts of...
New strategy for multiple myeloma immunotherapy
Credit: Osaka University Osaka - In recent decades monoclonal antibody-based treatment of cancer has been established as one of the most successful therapeutic strategies for...
ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress in Europe to answer to open questions in cancer immunotherapy
LUGANO, 24 November 2017 - You are still on time to register as Press representative for the ESMO Immuno Oncology Congress 2017 to be held...
Biologists studied cellular cannibalism in cancerous growths
Credit: Anastasiia Garanina Researchers from Lomonosov MSU Faculty of Biology have studied the stages of entosis, a process of cell death when one cell invades...
