Shape-shifting cancer cell discovery reveals potential skin cancer drug targets
Cancer cells can change shape to travel around the body and spread (metastasize), but how they know when to do this has remained elusive.
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Cancer cells can change shape to travel around the body and spread (metastasize), but how they know when to do this has remained elusive.
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In a new study co-led by investigators at the United States Department of Veterans Affairs and Brigham and Women's Hospital, a founding member of the Mass General Brigham health care system, a global team of scientists conducted ...
Aug 24, 2023
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Researchers at the University of Arizona College of Medicine–Tucson, along with collaborators at Harvard University, harnessed the power of artificial intelligence to identify causes of Alzheimer's disease and potential ...
May 16, 2023
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An international group of researchers investigated why mutations often associated with renal cancer result specifically in renal cancer, instead of other cancer types.
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Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine and Texas Children's Hospital have identified potent, highly specific compounds that interfere with bromodomain (BD)-containing proteins involved in cancer. The compounds, called ...
Jun 3, 2022
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Most autoimmune diseases are easy to diagnose but hard to treat. A paper published today in Science proposes using your unique immune cell fingerprint to rapidly identify which treatments will work for your autoimmune disease.
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What started as a hallway conversation between colleagues is now an "engine for the discovery of new therapeutic targets in cells" thanks to Medicine by Design, says Shana Kelley, a University Professor in the Leslie Dan ...
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UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers have narrowed the potential drug targets for advanced prostate cancer by demonstrating that late-stage tumors are driven by a different hormonal pathway than was thought previously.
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Scientists at deCODE genetics have published a study in Nature Communications, comparing over 110 thousand patients with autoimmune thyroid disease (AITD) from Iceland, Finland, UK and U.S. with 1.1 million controls. The ...
Jul 12, 2024
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Glioblastoma is an often fatal form of brain cancer, with only 5% of patients surviving beyond five years. The cancer is difficult to treat and almost always becomes resistant to treatment. As a result, recurrence of glioblastoma ...
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