Oncology & Cancer

Pathway tied to cancer-driving genome alterations identified

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 ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

How human skin differentiates bacterial friend from foe

In a study recently published in PLoS Pathogens, researchers at AIMES, The Center for the Advancement of Integrated Medical and Engineering Sciences at Karolinska Institutet, have identified one of the subtle—yet effective—pathways ...

Oncology & Cancer

New prognostic biomarker identified in small cell lung cancer

Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) is a fast-growing and highly malignant subtype of lung cancer. One of the biggest challenges doctors face is the cancer's resistance to platinum-based chemotherapy, the standard treatment for ...

Medical research

New tool PISA-REX facilitates drug development

Researchers have developed an industry-standard tool to facilitate drug development and translational research in collaboration between labs at Karolinska Institutet and the Gygi Lab at Harvard Medical School. Their results ...