In a study published in Nature Medicine, researchers from the University of Oxford and the Muhimbili University of Health and Allied Sciences (MUHAS) in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania have shown that a minimally invasive liquid ...
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Patients with leptomeningeal metastasis (LM) have historically had few treatment options. Now, researchers from The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center have found a combination of targeted therapies, tucatinib and ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Obesity increases the body's need for insulin, forcing cells in the pancreas known as beta cells to ramp up insulin production to maintain blood sugar levels. Scientists have thought that this excessive insulin secretion ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Two new studies from investigators at Mass General Brigham challenge a decades-old assumption that the thymus, an organ best known for its role in establishing immune function in childhood, becomes irrelevant in adulthood. ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Researchers have discovered an antioxidant, glutathione, that cancer cells appear to be "addicted to" as fuel, opening new pathways for investigation and a potential drug that can restrict the way tumors use this nutrient.
Mar 18, 2026
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For years, one of the most powerful weapons against certain blood cancers, called CAR-T cell therapy, has required an elaborate process: Doctors extract a patient's immune cells, ship them to a specialized facility where ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Cancer-fighting T cells do not simply "run out of energy." They are molecularly reprogrammed. For years, mitochondrial dysfunction has been recognized as a hallmark of exhausted T cells in tumors. Yet how metabolic stress ...
Mar 18, 2026
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Northwestern Medicine scientists have discovered that specialized immune cells within the glioblastoma tumor metabolize fructose to suppress immune responses and promote tumor growth, reports a study published in the Proceedings ...
Mar 17, 2026
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Immunotherapy has transformed cancer treatment by harnessing the body's own immune system to fight disease. But many engineered immune cells lose strength quickly after they enter the body, especially inside tumors that actively ...
Mar 17, 2026
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One of oncology's biggest challenges is that the same treatment can work well for some patients but fail completely in others. A study published in Nature Communications, by a multidisciplinary team led by Dr. Louise Fets ...
Mar 17, 2026
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