Medical research
'Magic bullet' found in fight against leukemia
Researchers have made a huge leap forward in finding a targeted therapy for acute myeloid leukemia.
Nov 10, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Metabolic memory plays a key role in breast cancer relapse
Molecular targets for therapies that could prevent breast cancer recurrence have been identified by a group of German, Norwegian and British scientists who analyzed tumor cells that proved resistant to the original treatment. ...
Oct 25, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Cancer cells mobilizing the nervous system? Let's use them to inhibit the tumor
Researchers at the Technion—Israel Institute of Technology have developed an innovative treatment for breast cancer, based on analgesic nanoparticles that target the nervous system. The study, published in Science Advances, ...
Oct 18, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
A peptide-drug conjugate that targets the acidic environment of cancer cells may improve the efficacy of immunotherapy
A peptide-drug conjugate that targets the acidic environment of cancer cells enhanced the efficacy of immune checkpoint inhibitors in preclinical cancer models, according to results presented at the AACR-NCI-EORTC Virtual ...
Oct 7, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
CAR-T immunotherapy could be improved to kill solid tumors
Immunotherapy, which harnesses the power of the body's immune system to fight disease, is gaining huge traction in treating cancer. Chief among cancer immunotherapies is a treatment known as CAR-T, or chimeric antigen receptor ...
Oct 4, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
How high-fat diets allow cancer cells to go unnoticed
A high-fat diet increases the incidence of colorectal cancer. Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Fellow Semir Beyaz and collaborators from Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts Institute of Technology have discovered that ...
Sep 28, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Special transcription factor and its target genes represent approach to therapy for rare leukaemia type
The anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is a type of leukemia that occurs primarily in children and young adults. An international team of researchers with significant involvement of MedUni Wien has now been able to demonstrate ...
Sep 22, 2021
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers identify a novel player in acute myeloid leukemia
A new study led by scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys has shown that the protein RNF5 plays an unusual role in acute myeloid leukemia (AML). Unlike its expected role, marking aberrant proteins for destruction, RNF5 binds ...
Sep 13, 2021
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Vaccination
Co-inventor of mRNA shots sets sights on pan-coronavirus vaccine
Drew Weissman's decades of research helped pave the way for mRNA Covid-19 vaccines, but the scientist isn't resting on his laurels.
Sep 9, 2021
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Medications
Existing drug opens new possibilities for treating child leukemia
A new study from Linköping University has shown that the tumor-inhibiting gene TET2 is silenced in a large fraction of cases of acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) in children. The scientists show that the gene can be reactivated ...
Aug 25, 2021
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