Breast cancer treatment advances with light-activated 'smart bomb'

Updated on: March 25,2025

Breast cancer treatment advances with light-activated 'smart bomb'

Updated on:March 25,2025

Changes in blood cell production over the lifetime could impact leukemia outcomes

by Susanne Clara Bard,University of California - San DiegoCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainResearchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their colleagues have develop

Updated on: December 21,2024

Changes in blood cell production over the lifetime could impact leukemia outcomes

by Susanne Clara Bard,University of California - San DiegoCredit: Unsplash/CC0 Public DomainResearchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and their colleagues have develop

Updated on:December 21,2024

Vitamin E succinate shown to control tumor growth and enhance immunotherapy effects

Updated on: March 25,2025

Vitamin E succinate shown to control tumor growth and enhance immunotherapy effects

Updated on:March 25,2025

Could a pill replace gene therapy for sickle cell disease? Research uncovers potential path to small-molecule drug

by Nancy Fliesler,Children's Hospital BostonNew work suggests ways to target the BCL11A protein with drugs, enabling patients with sickle cell disease to produce non-sickling fetal hemoglobi

Updated on: January 17,2025

Could a pill replace gene therapy for sickle cell disease? Research uncovers potential path to small-molecule drug

by Nancy Fliesler,Children's Hospital BostonNew work suggests ways to target the BCL11A protein with drugs, enabling patients with sickle cell disease to produce non-sickling fetal hemoglobi

Updated on:January 17,2025

Highly invasive tumor hijacks neurons to grow, but a common heart medication offers hope

byChinese Academy of SciencesMouse craniopharyngioma. Credit: IGDBChinese researchers have revealed new insights into the growth of craniopharyngioma and identified a potential therapeutic treat

Updated on: January 21,2025

Highly invasive tumor hijacks neurons to grow, but a common heart medication offers hope

byChinese Academy of SciencesMouse craniopharyngioma. Credit: IGDBChinese researchers have revealed new insights into the growth of craniopharyngioma and identified a potential therapeutic treat

Updated on:January 21,2025

PIVKA-II-based model IDs liver cancer risk in hep C-related cirrhosis

by Elana GotkineAmong patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related cirrhosis with sustained virological response (SVR) to direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), a serum protein induced by vitamin K absence

Updated on: December 20,2024

PIVKA-II-based model IDs liver cancer risk in hep C-related cirrhosis

by Elana GotkineAmong patients with hepatitis C virus (HCV)-related cirrhosis with sustained virological response (SVR) to direct-acting antivirals (DAAs), a serum protein induced by vitamin K absence

Updated on:December 20,2024

First look at neuron–tumor connections in brain illuminates formation and spread of gliomas

by Stephanie Dutchen,Harvard Medical SchoolResearchers revealed which neurons in a mouse brain, shown in red, connect to a human glioma, shown in green. Image: Annie Hsieh. Credit:Proceedi

Updated on: December 20,2024

First look at neuron–tumor connections in brain illuminates formation and spread of gliomas

by Stephanie Dutchen,Harvard Medical SchoolResearchers revealed which neurons in a mouse brain, shown in red, connect to a human glioma, shown in green. Image: Annie Hsieh. Credit:Proceedi

Updated on:December 20,2024

Cell-based immunotherapy shows promise in early clinical trial for breast cancer

byKent State UniversityBreast imaging of one trial patient before (left image) and after (right image) six weeks of experimental immunotherapy. Note diminution of area of disease (dense white ar

Updated on: December 19,2024

Cell-based immunotherapy shows promise in early clinical trial for breast cancer

byKent State UniversityBreast imaging of one trial patient before (left image) and after (right image) six weeks of experimental immunotherapy. Note diminution of area of disease (dense white ar

Updated on:December 19,2024

How individual mutations of the tumor suppressor p53 affect pancreatic carcinomas

byUniversity of KonstanzMetabolic profile of p53 mutant variants in pancreatic cancer. Credit:Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research(2024). DOI: 10.1186/s13046-024-03

Updated on: December 21,2024

How individual mutations of the tumor suppressor p53 affect pancreatic carcinomas

byUniversity of KonstanzMetabolic profile of p53 mutant variants in pancreatic cancer. Credit:Journal of Experimental & Clinical Cancer Research(2024). DOI: 10.1186/s13046-024-03

Updated on:December 21,2024

Anticancer drugs could make immunotherapies more effective

byWeill Cornell Medical CollegePretreatment with EZH2 inhibitor (top right) leads to higher recruitment of CAR-T cells (red) into the lymph node tumor compared with control (top left). Pretreatm

Updated on: December 21,2024

Anticancer drugs could make immunotherapies more effective

byWeill Cornell Medical CollegePretreatment with EZH2 inhibitor (top right) leads to higher recruitment of CAR-T cells (red) into the lymph node tumor compared with control (top left). Pretreatm

Updated on:December 21,2024

Reprogramming compromised immune cells to fight cancer

Updated on: March 27,2025

Reprogramming compromised immune cells to fight cancer

Updated on:March 27,2025

A pair of enzymes provides insights in how pancreatic cancer cells adapt when resources are scarce

bySanford-Burnham PrebysRepresentative immunohistochemical staining for p-PKCζT560and total PKCζ from clinical samples on a tissue microarray (TMA) containing 152 surgically resected human

Updated on: December 21,2024

A pair of enzymes provides insights in how pancreatic cancer cells adapt when resources are scarce

bySanford-Burnham PrebysRepresentative immunohistochemical staining for p-PKCζT560and total PKCζ from clinical samples on a tissue microarray (TMA) containing 152 surgically resected human

Updated on:December 21,2024