Glioblastoma is the most common type of brain tumor in adults. The disease is 100% fatal and there are no cures, making it the most aggressive type of cancer. Such a poor prognosis has motivated researchers and neurosurgeons ...
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Lifestyle behaviors such as eating well and exercising can be significant factors in one's overall health. But the risk of developing cancer is predominantly at the whim of an individual's genetics.
Apr 4, 2023
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Using a self-built inverted microscope complete with laser optical tweezers to capture DNA, Yale Cancer Center and University of California Davis researchers for the first time created a visualization of the full-length human ...
Mar 31, 2023
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Why are some bladder cancers resistant to a type of immunotherapy called immune checkpoint inhibitors? Penn State College of Medicine researchers have found that the genetic and pathologic diversity of cells within the tumor ...
Mar 31, 2023
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Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say their 20-year study of more than 200 people with premature aging syndromes caused by abnormally short telomeres, or shortened repetitive DNA sequences at the ends of chromosomes, may ...
Mar 30, 2023
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A research team of 37 scientists, led by the Technical University of Munich, has developed a method to interrogate drug-induced post-translational modifications (PTMs) in a time and dose-dependent way.
One of the ways that cancer cells hide from the body's immune system is by forming a thin surface barrier called the glycocalyx. In a new study, researchers examined the material properties of this barrier with unprecedented ...
Mar 27, 2023
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Your circadian rhythm doesn't just govern your sleeping schedule; it can also impact cancer development, diagnosis, and treatment. In a review paper published in the journal Trends in Cell Biology, researchers discuss the ...
Mar 24, 2023
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Research from Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center experts revealed a type of RNA, previously considered to be "junk," that may help doctors distinguish and treat a subgroup of patients with medulloblastoma.
Mar 23, 2023
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A new study of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma suggests that two specific cancer cell mutations may work together to help hide tumors from the immune system, offering a possible way to predict whether the tumors ...
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