Cancer is relentless and resilient. When a drug blocks a cancer cell’s main survival pathway, the cell avoids the obstacle
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Liquid biopsies reveal genetic alterations linked to cancer drug resistance
Many patients see their tumors shrink in response to a drug, only to have them come back with a vengeance
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The birth of vision, from the retina to the brain
How is the retina formed? And how do neurons differentiate to become individual components of the visual system? By focusing
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International team discovers unique pathway for treating deadly children’s brain cancer: Genomic bait and switch starves mutation that contributes to Diffuse Intrinsic Pontine Gliomas (DIPG)
An international team of researchers led by Yale University, University of Iowa, and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen), an
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Researchers convert pro-tumor macrophages into cancer killers
Epithelial cancers, such as cancers of the lung and pancreas, use the ανβ3 molecule to gain drug resistance to standard
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Aspirin may help some breast cancer survivors, but changes in DNA may mean harm for others: Chemical changes in DNA — called methylation — in blood and breast cancer tumors may modify aspirin’s role in mortality risk
Previous studies have shown that some women who use aspirin and are later diagnosed with breast cancer may live longer,
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Gene mutation combo linked to common cancer in women
Michigan State University researchers, in collaboration with the Van Andel Institute, have identified a combination of two gene mutations that
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Shrinking brain tumors and opening the door for targeted cancer therapies
A new drug, known as IP1867B, could be used for future treatments of brain tumours. Dr Richard Hill led the
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How some older brains decline before people realize it
Some older adults without noticeable cognitive problems have a harder time than younger people in separating irrelevant information from what
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New cause of cell aging discovered: Findings have huge implications for cancer and age-related health conditions
New research from the USC Viterbi School of Engineering could be key to our understanding of how the aging process
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