There are 1.5 million cases of drug-induced kidney toxicity each year in the U.S. Among the usual suspects are cyclosporin and cisplatin, a pair of widely used chemotherapy drugs. Because both are considered lifesaving therapies, ...
A team of researchers affiliated with several institutions in the U.S. and the U.K. has found a link between the APOBEC3A enzyme and the most prevalent mutational signatures in cancer cell lines. In their paper published ...
For more than a decade, scientist Stephen Albert Johnston and his team at Arizona State University's Biodesign Institute have pooled their energies into an often scoffed-at, high-risk, high-reward goal in medicine: to develop ...
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U.S. medical authorities are revisiting the safety of breast implants used by millions of American women, the latest review in an ongoing debate about their potential health effects.
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Tissues grown in the lab from stem cells may fail to live up their therapeutic promise because the cells choose their own fate.
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Desmoplastic melanoma is a rare subtype of melanoma that is commonly found on sun-exposed areas, such as the head and neck, and usually seen in older patients. Treatment is difficult because these tumors are often resistant ...
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Scientists from the Cancer Therapy & Research Center (CTRC) in San Antonio today (March 4) published work that provides deeper insight into how the Angelina Jolie gene, BRCA1, functions in normal breast tissue and how its ...
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A team of researchers with members from across the Netherlands has found that using organoids derived from patient tumors can be used to help determine how well a cancer patient will respond to chemotherapy. In their paper ...
Sarcomas are cancer tumors found in the bones, muscles or fatty tissue. They are a rare type of cancer seen in only one percent of cancer patients, and are complex and difficult to treat.
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Imperial researchers have found a new cell mechanism that could be used to target tumours in the future.
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