Cancer remains a significant global health challenge and is a leading cause of mortality worldwide. Traditional cancer treatments such as surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, although essential, often come with limitations ...
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Researchers have revealed a new method to significantly enhance the efficacy of bispecific antibody therapies in treating solid tumors. Their findings were published on May 13 in Cell Reports Medicine.
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A recent study focuses on the Ly-6 antigens, a family of proteins that contain a conserved LU domain. These antigens have been associated with stem cells and cancer stem cells. The mouse Ly-6A (also known as Sca-1) is a well-known ...
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A Stanford Medicine study of thousands of breast cancers has found that the gene sequences we inherit at conception are powerful predictors of the breast cancer type we might develop decades later and how deadly it might ...
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Graduate student Hillary Layden studies transcriptional control of cancer in the lab of Scott Hiebert, Hortense B. Ingram Chair in Cancer Research and professor of biochemistry.
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Though 1 in 2 people will develop some form of cancer in their lifetime, there's still much we don't know about this disease. But thanks to continued research efforts, we keep learning more about the biology of cancer. One ...
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The research group of Professor Riitta Lahesmaa have discovered a novel modulator for human regulatory T cells. This novel regulator can strengthen or dampen immune response and provides a new basis for therapeutic approaches ...
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Natural killer (NK) cells play a crucial role in the first line of host defense by eliminating bacteria, viruses, and mutated cells that might become cancer cells. While the interferon-gamma (IFN-γ ) typically plays a pivotal ...
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Stomach cancer is caused by an uncontrolled growth of cells that starts in the stomach. Most stomach cancers are found when the disease has spread beyond the stomach, when a cure is less likely.
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A new study led by investigators from Mass General Cancer Center reveals that statins—commonly used cholesterol-lowering drugs—may block a particular pathway involved in the development of cancer that results from chronic ...
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