Oncology & Cancer

Software tool analyzes cancer cells in biopsy slides

An innovative software tool could advance cancer pathology by providing diagnostic insights from tissue biopsies. The tool, called METI (Morphology-Enhanced Spatial Transcriptome Analysis Integrator), was developed by researchers ...

Oncology & Cancer

Findings suggest common salt activates anti-tumor cells

Salt could help to boost the immune defense against cancer. This is suggested by the research findings of a team led by Prof. Dr. Christina Zielinski, who holds the Chair of Infection Immunology at the Friedrich Schiller ...

Oncology & Cancer

Old chemo drug, new pancreatic cancer therapy?

The fight against cancer is an arms race, and one of the most effective weapons in clinicians' arsenals is immunotherapy. Immune checkpoint therapy has become the standard for treating several types of cancer. However, the ...

Oncology & Cancer

New work validates targets for personalized cancer immunotherapy

What are the characteristics of a cancer cell that are recognized by the immune system? Knowledge of the potential target structures for the immune cells is a basic prerequisite for the development of personalized cancer ...

Oncology & Cancer

Finding new treatments for genetic tumor-predisposition syndrome

A new report describes a promising approach to studying neurofibromatosis type 1 (NF1), a genetic condition with limited treatment options. The condition causes a number of different cancerous and non-cancerous tumors to ...

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