The treatment of breast cancer abounding in the protein HER2 was revolutionized with the introduction of drugs like trastuzumab (Herceptin) that target the protein. When researchers discovered that breast cancers with lower ...
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Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Christopher Vakoc's team discovered in 2018 a new type of small-cell lung cancer. The cancer originates from cells known as tuft cells. The prognosis for tuft cell lung cancer ...
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A new study that analyzed protein levels in 2,002 primary tumors from 14 tissue-based cancer types identified 11 distinct molecular subtypes, providing systematic knowledge that greatly expands a searchable online database ...
Jun 10, 2022
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In a novel experiment, a woman with advanced pancreatic cancer saw her tumors dramatically shrink after researchers in Oregon turbocharged her own immune cells, highlighting a possible new way to someday treat a variety of ...
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In an amazing twist of fate, the aggressive cervical cancer tumor that killed Henrietta Lacks, a 31-year old African American mother, became an essential tool that helped the biomedical field flourish in the 20th century. ...
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T cells, biology textbooks teach us, are the soldiers of the immune system, constantly on the ready to respond to a variety of threats, from viruses to tumors. However, without rest and maintenance T cells can die and leave ...
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A team of researchers affiliated with multiple entities in the Netherlands and one in Switzerland reports that a vaccine targeting a certain protein is effective in treating multiple types of cancers in several kinds of animals. ...
Researchers have boosted pioneering technology to show whether potential treatments are worth progressing into human trials, in a game-changing move that could dramatically reduce the high failure rates in drug discovery ...
May 24, 2022
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As documented in a new research paper published in Oncotarget, researchers from Louisiana State University have developed CancerOmicsNet—a graph neural network model to predict the growth rate of a cancer cell line after ...
May 19, 2022
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A new way in which cancer cells can repair DNA damage has been discovered by researchers at the University of Birmingham.
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