Oncology & Cancer
Predicting cancer patient response to drugs that block DNA repair
Researchers have identified genetic tests that predict which cancer patients may benefit from the drugs in combination with chemotherapy.
Nov 6, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Study shows that smoking 'stops' cancer-fighting proteins, causing cancer and making it harder to treat
Scientists at the Ontario Institute for Cancer Research (OICR) have uncovered one way tobacco smoking causes cancer and makes it harder to treat by undermining the body's anti-cancer safeguards.
Nov 3, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
How a specific metabolite tells cells whether to repair DNA
Metabolites called nucleotides are the building blocks of DNA and can impact cancer's sensitivity or resistance to chemotherapy and radiation in brain cancer. Findings from researchers at the University of Michigan Health ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
New strategy attacks treatment-resistant lymphomas
A surprising mechanism that makes some cancers treatment-resistant has been discovered by Weill Cornell Medicine and NewYork-Presbyterian investigators. The mechanism, which involves the shuttling of messenger RNAs (mRNAs) ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Study provides insights into early breast cancer development in individuals with BRCA2 mutations
A pioneering study led by Professor Ashok Venkitaraman from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore and Dr. Mona Shehata from the University of Cambridge (UK) has ...
Nov 2, 2023
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Genetics
New method reveals hidden genetic variations
Many hidden genetic variations can be detected with Chameleolyser, a new method developed in Nijmegen. The information is already yielding new patient diagnoses and may also lead to the discovery of as yet unknown disease ...
Nov 1, 2023
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Medications
DNA tangles allow for targeted cancer therapy via topoisomerase drug treatment
A new publication in Science Advances from researchers at Karolinska Institutet shows how to use a specific cancer trait to improve treatment of pancreatic tumors.
Nov 1, 2023
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Genetics
Could epigenetic age acceleration, not actual age, better predict how well you remember?
A study led by researchers at Stony Brook University shows that age acceleration, when one's so-called biological clock runs quicker than one's actual age, is linked to poorer memory and slower rates of processing information.
Oct 31, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Study shows DNA organization can influence the growth of deadly brain tumors in response to neuronal signals
A pioneering study at Umeå University, Sweden, has unveiled that the 3D organization of DNA can influence the progression of the aggressive brain tumor known as glioblastoma. Having identified the factors that glioblastoma ...
Oct 31, 2023
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Can female fertility survive harsh cancer therapy? Scientists who turned to animal models say the answer is 'yes'
Cancer treatment can rob childbearing-age women of fertility, but new research has uncloaked how the body's own traitor protein conspires with chemo and other harsh therapies against the ovaries' primordial follicles, home ...
