Tag: cancer

Rohan Fernandes, PhD, is leading a team in investigating the efficacy of a nanoimmunotherapy ensemble in treating cancer WASHINGTON (Jan. ...

Drug compound could be next-generation treatment for aggressive form of leukemia

Compounds show promise in treating acute myeloid leukemiaCredit: (Purdue Research Foundation image/Hope Sale) WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. - Researchers have been ...

Cancer: A mutation that breaks gene interplay in 3D

Credit: Giovanni Ciriello (UNIL) Inside the cell, DNA is tightly wrapped around proteins and packed in a complex, 3D structure ...

Finding second hits to knock out leukemia

Credit: Ella Marushchenko (Vienna, 28 January 2019) Many new anti-cancer drugs inhibit proteins that are essential for the proliferation of ...

The growing role of precision and personalized medicine for cancer treatment

Credit: Authors In a paper published in the September/December 2018 issue of TECHNOLOGY, a group of researchers from Rutgers University ...

Rutgers researchers highlight need for more smoking cessation programs in state prisons

Many inmates in state prison facilities want to quit smoking but lack resources and tobacco dependence education programs to help ...

Tachycardia in cancer patients may signal increased mortality risk

Once other causes are ruled out, tachycardia is a marker of a poor prognosis in these patients Cancer patients who ...

MD Anderson study shows FGL2 protein may be an effective target for glioblastoma

Credit: MD Anderson Cancer Center HOUSTON - Researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have discovered an ...

New therapeutic target for graft-vs-host disease could make bone marrow transplant safer

Graft-vs-host disease (GVHD) is a major complication of bone marrow transplant, a potentially curative therapy for blood-borne cancers. Targeting Sirt-1 ...

Genetically modified virus injection into tumor can treat metastatic melanoma

CHICAGO (January 25, 2019): Injection of a genetically modified virus that induces the body's own immune cells to attack metastatic ...

Understanding the emergence of leukemia

Credit: Mariana Ávila, IGC. Acute T-cell lymphoblastic leukemia is a rare type of blood cancer that affects mostly children. This ...

Common pain reliever can improve survival in head and neck cancer

Researchers find some cancer cell lines are more sensitive to NSAID treatment Regular use of a common type of medication, ...

Study suggests aspirin may help some patients survive head and neck cancer

Credit: University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine (Hedberg), University of Arizona (Bauman), and University of California, San Francisco (Peyser/Grandis). Regular ...

The hitchhiker's guide to defeating glioblastoma