Melanomas are one of the most aggressive types of tumors in humans. Despite remarkable success with new forms of treatment
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A new tactic for starving tumors
A tumor’s goal is simple: to grow, grow, grow, by making more cancer cells. But that often means growing so
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New target to stop cancer growth uncovered
Researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have discovered that a protein called Munc13-4 helps cancer cells secrete large numbers of
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Human immune ‘trigger’ map paves way for better treatments
A discovery about how human cells are ‘triggered’ to undergo an inflammatory type of cell death could have implications for
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3D imaging and computer modeling capture breast duct development
Working with hundreds of time-lapse videos of mouse tissue, a team of biologists joined up with civil engineers to create
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Structural biology: Until the last cut
Ribosomes are the cell’s protein factories. Researchers from Ludwig-Maximilians-Universitaet (LMU) in Munich have now structurally characterized late stages in the
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Breaking through a tumor’s defenses: Understanding how tumors subvert elements of our immune system suggests new immunotherapy treatments
In research published today, Babraham Institute researchers have shown that some tumours use not one but two levels of protection
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Avoiding catastrophe: Yeast study reveals clues to maintaining genome size: Yeast cells reveal clues to agressive childhood kidney cancer
As cells divide, they must accurately split their DNA between the two daughter cells or risk having an uneven number
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Novel PET imaging noninvasively pinpoints colitis inflammation
A novel positron emission tomography (PET) imaging method shows promise for noninvasively pinpointing sites of inflammation in people with inflammatory
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How might baking soda boost cancer therapy? Researchers describe how acidity turns oxygen-starved cancer cells dormant and drug resistant — and a potentially easy way reverse the effect
A Ludwig Cancer Research study has uncovered an entirely novel mechanism by which cells enter a state of dormancy as
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