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Sick Dutch boy's nail-varnish dare nets over 2.5 mn euros
A terminally ill six-year-old Dutch boy, who hoped to raise a few hundred euros by daring people to paint their nails, has raised more than 2.5 million euros.
Dec 25, 2016
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Internet nail-varnish dare nets sick Dutch 6-year-old a million
A terminally ill Dutch six-year-old boy, who hoped to raise a few hundred euros for other sick children by daring people to paint their nails in garish colours, had raised more than one million by Friday.
Dec 23, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Pathway linked to slower aging also fuels brain cancer
While a particular metabolic pathway shows potential to slow down the aging process, new research indicates a downside: That same pathway may drive brain cancer.
Dec 6, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers find new driver of an aggressive form of brain cancer
University of Hawai'i Cancer Center researchers have identified an essential driver of tumor cell invasion in glioblastoma, the most aggressive form of brain cancer that can occur at any age. The discovery can help researchers ...
Nov 15, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Could targeting a gene linked to microcephaly lead to a better brain cancer treatment?
University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center researchers have identified a potential new treatment for brain cancer by learning from a rare condition that can cause microcephaly.
Nov 1, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
'Gene therapy in a box' effective, reports Nature Communications
A table-top device that enables medical staff to genetically manipulate a patient's blood to deliver potential new therapies for cancer, HIV and other diseases would eliminate the need for multi-million-dollar "clean rooms," ...
Oct 20, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Gene fusions can lead to glioblastoma in children
Every year, about 60 children and adolescents in Germany are diagnosed with glioblastoma, a very aggressive type of brain cancer, which is still mostly untreatable. Now, scientists from the Max Planck Institute for Molecular ...
Oct 20, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Imaging with new biomarker tracks tumor progression, response to brain cancer treatment
October 13, 2016 - UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have developed an MRI-based method that can track the state and progression of a common type of genetically mutated brain cancer.
Oct 14, 2016
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Oncology & Cancer
Brain cancer now leading childhood cancer killer
Brain cancer is now the deadliest childhood cancer in the U.S., now ahead of leukemia, a result of improved leukemia treatment and a frustrating lack of progress on brain cancer.
Sep 16, 2016
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New computer program beats physicians at brain cancer diagnoses, could eliminate costly and risky brain biopsies
Computer programs have defeated humans in Jeopardy!, chess and Go. Now a program developed at Case Western Reserve University has outperformed physicians on a more serious matter.
Sep 15, 2016
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