Researchers help develop new antifungal drug
University of Liverpool researchers, working with F2G Limited (Eccles, Manchester), have developed a new antifungal drug to help in the treatment of life threatening invasive...
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Penn team shows how seemingly acute viral infections can persist
Credit: University of Pennslyvania Infections caused by viruses, such as respiratory syncytial virus, or RSV, measles, parainfluenza and Ebola, are typically considered acute. These viruses...
The Gold Standard: John Innes Centre receives Athena SWAN Gold award
Credit: John Innes Centre A world-leading plant and microbial science institute, the John Innes Centre, has become the first institution in the UK to achieve...
Imaging agents developed to better monitor growth of tumors
Credit: University of Alberta (Edmonton, AB) UAlberta researchers have created two new imaging agents that could help physicians visualize the formation of tumour-associated blood vessels,...
CRI study challenges long-standing concept in cancer metabolism
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Scientists at the Children's Medical Center Research Institute at UT Southwestern (CRI) have discovered that lactate...
DSI professor conducts research to combat pancreatic cancer
Credit: DSI Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers: pancreatic...
Good-guy bacteria may help cancer immunotherapies do their job
Credit: UT Southwestern DALLAS - Oct. 5, 2017 - Individuals with certain types of bacteria in their gut may be more likely to respond well...
Scientists enlist supercomputers, machine learning to automatically identify brain tumors
Credit: Andreas Mang, Sameer Tharakan, Amir Gholami, Naveen Himthani, Shashank Subramanian, James Levitt, Muneeza Azmat, Klaudius Scheufele, Miriam Mehl, Christos Davatzikos, Bill Barth and George...
New research on sperm stem cells has implications for male infertility and cancer
Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute SALT LAKE CITY - New research from scientists at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and collaborators at...
‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award
Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College of Biological Sciences, has received...
Global burden of disease study focuses on liver cancer
A new article published by JAMA Oncology reports the results of the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study on primary liver cancer incidence, death and...
Why can’t mTOR inhibitors kill cancer? Study explains
Credit: McGill University and Masahiro Morita, Ph.D. Anti-cancer drugs called mTOR inhibitors slow the growth of cancer cells but show limited ability to cause cancer...
Researchers identify genetic drivers of most common form of lymphoma
DURHAM, N.C. -- Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer, but the diagnosis belies a wildly diverse and little understood genetic foundation for the disease...
Genomic screening helps doctors target girl’s cancer
Credit: Sarah Pack Victoria Thompson, clutching a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips while she watches the TV show "Paw Patrol," is a pint-sized...
Anti-RAS antibodies show poor reliability in recognizing RAS proteins
Researchers from the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio co-authored a paper published Sept. 26 in Science Signaling that looks at...
