Tackling brain cancer is complicated, but recent research could help add another tool to the cancer-fighting arsenal. A team from Georgia Tech and Virginia Tech has published a paper in APL Bioengineering that explores a ...
Jul 17, 2024
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When low doses of cancer drugs are administered continuously near malignant brain tumors using so-called iontronic technology, cancer cell growth drastically decreases. Researchers at Linköping University, Sweden, and the ...
Jun 19, 2024
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Penn Medicine's patients of color are far less likely than white patients to receive a novel gene therapy pioneered there and hailed as a cure for some blood cancers, new research shows.
Jun 11, 2024
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Brain cancer is difficult to treat when it starts growing, and a prevalent type, known as a glioma, has a poor five-year survival rate. In a new study published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Mayo Clinic ...
May 30, 2024
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Lucy, with her boundless puppy-like energy even at 12 years old, is more than just a pet to Susan Ketcham. She's now part of a research project that could transform the way we treat brain cancer—in both dogs and humans.
May 22, 2024
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In a pioneering achievement, a research team led by experts at Cincinnati Children's has developed the world's first human mini-brain that incorporates a fully functional blood-brain barrier (BBB).
May 20, 2024
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When you disable the brakes on a race car, it quickly crashes. Dr. Barak Rotblat wants to do something similar to brain cancer cells. He wants to disable their ability to survive glucose starvation. In fact, he wants to speed ...
May 20, 2024
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Brain cancers remain among the most challenging tumors to treat. They often don't respond to traditional treatments because many chemotherapies are unable to penetrate the protective barrier around the brain. Other treatments ...
May 2, 2024
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In a first-ever human clinical trial of four adult patients, an mRNA cancer vaccine developed at the University of Florida quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack glioblastoma, the most aggressive and lethal brain ...
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New research from the University of Oklahoma reveals a previously unknown chain of events sparking the development of cancer cachexia, a debilitating muscle-wasting condition that almost always occurs in people diagnosed ...
Apr 12, 2024
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