Avocado Discovery May Point to Better Leukemia Treatment
A compound in avocados may ultimately offer a route to better leukemia treatment, says a new University of Guelph study. The compound targets an enzyme…
Cancer
From Mice to Men: Potential New Target Discovered for Treating Acute Myeloid Leukemia
Bone marrow failure due to acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a significant factor behind the disease’s high rate of morbidity and mortality. Previous studies in…
Red Meat Intake, Heavier Alcohol Use, and Poor Education Linked to Colorectal Cancer
A new paper in JNCI Cancer Spectrum, published by Oxford University Press, indicates that several non-genetic factors — including greater red meat intake, lower educational attainment,…
New Technology Makes Cancer Tumors Eliminate Themselves
A new technology developed by University of Zurich researchers enables the body to produce therapeutic agents on demand at the exact location where they are…
Artificial Intelligence Program Accurately Predicts Lung Cancer Risk
An artificial intelligence (AI) program accurately predicts the risk that lung nodules detected on screening CT will become cancerous, according to a study published in…
Hormone Drugs May Disarm Coronavirus Spike Protein and Stop COVID-19 Disease Progression
A new Penn Medicine study shows how anti-androgen drugs disrupt key receptors required for viral invasion of cells. Hormone drugs that reduce androgen levels may…
New Immunotherapy “Highly Effective” Against Hepatitis B Virus
Scientists at University College London have identified a new immunotherapy to combat the hepatitis B virus (HBV), the most common cause of liver cancer in…
Biologists Discover a Trigger for Cell Extrusion – Process for Eliminating Unneeded Cells
Study suggests this process for eliminating unneeded cells may also protect against cancer. For all animals, eliminating some cells is a necessary part of embryonic…
Innovative Chemical “Nose” Sniffs Critical Differences in DNA Structures
Detection innovation could enhance drug development and cancer research. Small changes in the structure of DNA have been implicated in breast cancer and other diseases,…
New Research Shows Pain Relieving Effects of CBD
A new study led by researchers at Syracuse University sheds light on the ability of CBD to reduce pain along with the impact that the…
Dietary Therapy for Cancer? Amino Acid Consumption Determines the Fate of Cancer Cells
A research group at the RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research (BDR) has discovered molecular events that determine whether cancer cells live or die. With…
Skeletal Remains Show Cancer Rates in Medieval Britain 10x Higher Than Previously Thought
The first study to use x-rays and CT scans to detect evidence of cancer among the skeletal remains of a pre-industrial population suggests that between…
Scientists Shrink Pancreatic Cancer Tumors by Starving Their Cellular “Neighbors”
Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute demonstrated for the first time that blocking “cell drinking,” or macropinocytosis, in the thick tissue surrounding a…
New Platelet-Based Formulation Developed for Combination Anticancer Therapy
Tumor targeting and intratumoral penetration are long-standing issues for cancer therapeutics. Researchers from the Institute of Process Engineering (IPE) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences…
Using CRISPR Gene Editing Technology as a Research Tool to Develop Cancer Treatments
KSQ Therapeutics uses technology created at MIT to study the role of every human gene in disease biology. CRISPR’s potential to prevent or treat disease…
People With Blood Cancer May Not Be Optimally Protected After mRNA COVID-19 Vaccination
Two new studies published in Blood suggest that the mRNA COVID-19 vaccine may have reduced efficacy in individuals with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) and multiple…
New “Time Machine” Technique Unveiled to Measure Cells
Using a new single-cell technique, WEHI researchers have uncovered a way to understand the programming behind how stem cells make particular cell types. The research…
Cancer DNA Blood Tests Validated – Fast, Cheap and Less Invasive Method to Diagnose and Monitor Cancer
An international team today reports the findings of an independent assessment of five commercially-available assays for tumor DNA sequencing – a fast, cheap and less…