June 5, 2018 — A popular aquarium fish may hold answers to how tumors form in a childhood ...
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June 4, 2018 — Scientists believe they have uncovered an 'Achilles heel' of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), the most common and deadly form of brain cancer. Their study details how a mechanism that ...
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June 4, 2018 — By altering the genetic code in bacteria, researchers have demonstrated a method to make therapeutic proteins more stable, an advance that would improve the drugs' effectiveness and convenience, ...
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June 4, 2018 — Scientists have succeeded in establishing a versatile, powerful and convenient model to analyze human ...
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June 3, 2018 — A 21-gene test performed on tumors could enable most patients with the most common type of early breast cancer to safely forgo chemotherapy, according to a new ...
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June 4, 2018 — Lifestyle-related cancers, such as lung, colorectal, and skin cancers, have increased globally over the past decade, according to the most comprehensive analysis of cancer-related health outcomes and ...
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June 1, 2018 — Researchers identified a crucial role for air sac-based scavenger blood cells, alveolar macrophages (AMs), in driving hepatocellular cancer metastasis in the lungs. AMs were found to be recruited by ...
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June 1, 2018 — Researchers have visualized for the first time how the protein SOCS1 'switches off' cell signalling to dampen immune responses and block cancer growth. The atomic-level structure of SOCS1 ...
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June 1, 2018 — A new study has uncovered an entirely novel mechanism by which cells enter a state of dormancy as tissues starved of oxygen become increasingly ...
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May 31, 2018 — New guidelines developed by the American Cancer Society recommend that screening for colorectal cancer for average-risk adults begin at age 45, five years earlier than the previous ...
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May 31, 2018 — A new approach may provide a new path towards treating acute myeloid leukemia (AML) with CAR T ...
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May 31, 2018 — An antifungal medication, commonly prescribed for toenail infections, could help eliminate dormant cells within bowel tumors, according to new ...
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May 31, 2018 — Patient-derived organoids, hollow spheres of cells cultured from tumors, can quickly and accurately predict how patients with pancreatic cancer respond to a variety of treatments, facilitating a ...
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May 31, 2018 — Women are more prone to the development of autoimmune diseases. The female hormone estrogen is likely to affect the immune system. A team of scientists reported new findings related to the ...
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May 31, 2018 — Rates of inherited mutations in genes other than BRCA1/2 are twice as high in breast cancer patients who have had a second primary cancer -- including, in some cases, different types of breast cancer ...
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May 31, 2018 — Cancer cells can when the blood supply is low use lipid molecules as fuel instead of blood glucose, according to a study using animal tumor models. The mechanism may help explain why tumors often ...
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May 30, 2018 — Dubbed 'T-cell engaging bi-specific antibodies,' these cancer combatants attack malignant cells but leave healthy cells ...
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May 30, 2018 — Researchers have discovered that disruptions in the construction of iron-sulfur clusters can lead to the buildup of fat droplets in certain ...
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May 30, 2018 — Researchers have used systems biology approaches to reveal key details about regulation of immune function, including T cells that are central to cancer ...
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May 30, 2018 — The findings suggest that boosting signals in certain cells and not in others might even help treat colon ...
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