Many clinical trials of new cancer drugs may be inappropriately excluding some people with "Duffy-null phenotype," a trait found predominantly in people of African or Middle Eastern descent, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer ...
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An international team of researchers led by Francesca Finotello from the Digital Science Center (DiSC) and the Department of Molecular Biology has derived a molecular signature from tumor transcriptomics data that quantifies ...
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Imagine building a traffic surveillance camera that could detect trouble-making cells speeding around in your brain before their cellular gang could commit "crimes." Most importantly, this camera could catch some of the biggest ...
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A common diabetes medication, metformin, slows the growth of precancerous cells in the esophagus while some metabolic conditions accelerate it, suggests a new study.
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Cancer cells appear to hijack a genetic pathway involved in DNA repair to drive malignancy and overcome treatment, a study led by UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers shows. Their findings, published in Cell, explain ...
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Amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, is the most common degenerative motor neuron disease in adults. It is characterized by a selective loss of motor neurons, resulting in progressive muscle ...
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A team of MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers has discovered one way in which triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) cells become resistant to immunotherapy and have tested a two-pronged treatment strategy that was able ...
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Cellular immunotherapy, a leading form of cancer treatment, enlists the "warriors" of our immune system, our T-cells, in the war on cancer. During preparations for the treatment, doctors take a sample of T-cells from the ...
Sep 9, 2024
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Research from Purdue University in collaboration with the National Institutes of Health (NIH) reveals that, thanks to a new computational tool, a cancer drug dismissed by traditional testing methods may be effective in treating ...
Sep 9, 2024
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Cancer cells seldom start off stealthy. Quite to the contrary, they announce their presence to the immune system by planting chemical red flags right on their membranes. Once alerted, the body's defenses can swoop in, destroying ...
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