A new artificial intelligence model designed by researchers at Harvard Medical School and National Cheng Kung University in Taiwan could bring much-needed clarity to doctors delivering prognoses and deciding on treatments ...
Apr 13, 2023
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CU Boulder researchers have discovered a protein's crucial role in helping breast and ovarian tumors survive and thrive and have found that suppressing that protein kills cancer cells without harming healthy ones.
Apr 13, 2023
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Mutations in our genes can lead to severe problems, like colon or liver cancer. But cancer is very complex. Mutations in the same genes can lead to different subtypes of tumors in different people. Currently, scientists don't ...
Apr 10, 2023
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Using a self-built inverted microscope complete with laser optical tweezers to capture DNA, Yale Cancer Center and University of California Davis researchers for the first time created a visualization of the full-length human ...
Mar 31, 2023
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Using artificial intelligence, researchers have discovered how to screen for genetic mutations in cancerous brain tumors in under 90 seconds—and possibly streamline the diagnosis and treatment of gliomas, a study suggests.
Mar 23, 2023
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Cancer treatments have long been moving toward personalization—finding the right drugs that work for a patient's unique tumor, based on specific genetic and molecular patterns. Many of these targeted therapies are highly ...
Mar 17, 2023
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A new study of the aggressive brain cancer glioblastoma suggests that two specific cancer cell mutations may work together to help hide tumors from the immune system, offering a possible way to predict whether the tumors ...
Mar 15, 2023
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As the first clinical trial of the drug novobiocin is about to open for patients with cancers carrying BRCA gene mutations, new research at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute shows the drug poses a double threat to tumor cells.
Mar 14, 2023
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A new study published in Science Translational Medicine has found that in women with BRCA gene mutations, having a high body mass index (BMI) is linked to more DNA damage in breast cells. Specifically, the study discovered ...
Cancer experts have tried, sometimes unsuccessfully, to use the total number of mutations in a tumor, called the tumor mutation burden (TMB), to predict a patient's response to immunotherapy. Now, investigators at the Johns ...
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