Archive: 20/04/2016
An implantable microdevice has potential to identify suitable therapy for cancer patients
A microdevice implanted into a tumor could release up to 100 individual cancer therapeutics or combinations, and upon retrieval from the tumor and analyses, could identify the best treatment option for that tumor, according ...
Apr 20, 2016
New mathematical model may help better define roles of environmental and intrinsic factors in cancer initiation
A mathematical model that takes into account the number of mutations required to initiate a specific type of cancer to estimate mutational activity, rather than cancer initiation, as the elementary event (as reported in two ...
Apr 20, 2016
New technology can potentially overcome CAR T-cell immunotherapy limitations
An engineered organic bispecific adaptor molecule that functions as a bridge between a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell and a cancer cell can potentially overcome some of the limitations posed by CAR T-cell immunotherapy ...
Apr 20, 2016
Scientists identify link between brain development and cancer
Researchers at The University of Queensland and the QIMR Berghofer Medical Research Institute have identified a protein which plays a key role in brain cancer, opening the door to potential new treatments.
Apr 20, 2016