Ancient enzyme could boost power of liquid biopsies to detect and profile cancers
Credit: Jennifer Stamos/Univ. of Texas at Austin Scientists are developing a set of medical tests called liquid biopsies that can rapidly detect the presence of...
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New talking therapy could help cancer survivors cope after treatment
A new project to develop and test a talking-based therapy for cancer survivors, led by Queen Mary University of London (QMUL), Barts Health NHS Trust...
Why are minorities underrepresented in genetic cancer studies?
Socio-cultural and clinical factors as well as healthcare processes were important drivers of a woman's willingness to provide saliva specimens for future cancer research. This...
Seattle Children’s opens first pediatric CAR T-Cell trial targeting CD22 and CD19 proteins
Credit: Seattle Children's Seattle Children's has opened the first chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell immunotherapy trial in the U.S. for children and young adults with...
AMP Iissues consensus guideline recommendations for NGS bioinformatics pipelines
BETHESDA, Md. -- Nov. 16, 2017 -- The Association for Molecular Pathology (AMP), the premier global, non-profit molecular diagnostics professional society, today published 17 consensus...
Brain cancer treatment previously featured on 60 Minutes now available to children
November 16, 2017 - DURHAM, NC: A Phase 1 clinical trial leveraging the re-engineered polio virus is now open for enrollment to children 12 years...
Pancreatic cancer: Is an ‘electronic nose’ the answer to achieving early diagnosis?
Credit: United European Gastroenterology (Vienna, Nov. 16, 2017) Utilising an 'electronic nose' could be an effective and affordable screening method for the diagnosis of pancreatic...
Pharmacoscopy improves therapy for relapsed blood cancer in a first clinical trial
Credit: CeMM/Gregory Vladimer Researchers at CeMM and the Medical University of Vienna presented a preliminary report in Lancet Hematology on the clinical impact of an...
Disparities in exposure to toxins may drive higher diabetes rates in minorities
Unequal exposure to environmental pollutants acting as endocrine-disrupting chemicals is an under-recognized risk factor that may play a key role in driving the higher rates...
Quality of care for older Texas patients with colon cancer on the rise, still room for improvement
Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON -- Research from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center finds adherence to surgical treatment guidelines has improved...
Wider sampling of tumor tissues may guide drug choice, improve outcomes
Credit: Guardant Health, see video at A new study focused on describing genetic variations within a primary tumor, differences between the primary and a metastatic...
Developing new molecular methods for synthetizing treatments for drug-resistant cancers
Credit: Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) Worcester, Mass. - Anita Mattson, associate professor of chemistry and biochemistry at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI), has received a $1.7...
Children undergoing radiation for cancer may have alternative to sedation
Credit: University of North Texas While radiation therapy is the most common cancer treatment for children under age 10, preparation for it may cause great...
Cures and scientific breakthroughs happen through collaboration, new study confirms
Credit: The above image, Fig. 2 from the paper, was generated using Cytoscape, an Open Source tool funded by the US National Institute of Health...
Targeting cancer without destroying healthy T-cells
A unique approach to targeting the abnormal T-cells that cause T-cell lymphomas could offer hope to patients with the aggressive and difficult-to-treat family of cancers,...
