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UC San Diego Health now offers new treatment option for men with enlarged prostate

Physicians at UC San Diego Health are now offering prostate artery embolization as a new treatment option for men with benign prostatic hyperplasia, or an enlarged prostate.

10 Jul 2018

Researchers use x-ray crystallography to reveal how curcumin inhibits cancer

Through x-ray crystallography and kinase-inhibitor specificity profiling, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Peking University and Zhejiang University, reveal that curcumin, a natural occurring chemical compound found in the spice turmeric, binds to the kinase enzyme dual-specificity tyrosine-regulated kinase 2 at the atomic level.

10 Jul 2018

Ludwig-developed antibody drug for deadly brain cancer may have broader applications

A Ludwig Cancer Research study explains why a particular mutation in the epidermal growth factor receptor, a cell surface protein, results in more aggressive tumors and poorer overall survival of patients diagnosed with the brain cancer glioblastoma multiforme.

10 Jul 2018

Spread of pancreatic cancer to the liver or lungs depends on plasticity of tumor cells

Pancreatic cancer often spreads, forming metastases in the liver or lungs. The prognosis is better for patients with metastases in the lungs.

9 Jul 2018

Researchers develop simple blood test to predict likely spread of rare cancer

New QUT research has shed fresh light on how head and neck cancer spreads to other organs and researchers are developing a simple blood test to tell doctors which patients are at risk of spread long before conventional imaging can.

9 Jul 2018

Researchers use gene therapy to cure obesity and type 2 diabetes in mice

A research team from the UAB led by Professor Fatima Bosch has managed to cure obesity and type 2 diabetes in mice using gene therapy.

9 Jul 2018

Insight Medical and Onkos Surgical join hands to explore ways to apply augmented reality in musculoskeletal oncology

Insight Medical Systems has teamed up with Onkos Surgical, Inc. to explore opportunities to apply Insight Medical's ARVI in musculoskeletal oncology.

9 Jul 2018

CTI BioPharma announces Phase III results of PIXUVRI combined with rituximab in aggressive B-cell NHL patients

CTI BioPharma Corp. and Servier today announced that the pivotal Phase III study evaluating PIXUVRI® combined with rituximab in comparison to gemcitabine combined with rituximab in patients with aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma did not meet its primary endpoint of improvement of progression-free survival

9 Jul 2018

Preventative HIV vaccines induce robust, comparable immune responses in humans and monkeys

More than three decades after the identification of the human immunodeficiency virus, scientists are still working to develop a preventative vaccine that could finally put an end to the epidemic for which there are nearly two million new infections each year.

9 Jul 2018

Researchers unmask functioning of protein involved in DNA repair during spermatogenesis

Researchers from the Department of Cell Biology, Physiology and Immunology and the Institute for Biotechnology and Biomedicine of the Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona have unmasked the functioning of a protein involved in DNA repair, ATR, in the meiotic recombination process which takes place during the development of spermatocytes - sperm precursor cells- and how inhibiting this protein causes anomalies which block spermatogenesis.

9 Jul 2018

Researchers focus on mechanisms involved in development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

One of the lines of research of the UPV/EHU's Lipids & Liver group, which focusses on the mechanisms involved in the development and progression of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease, is achieving significant advances in a range of aspects; these include the identification of proteins that alter the metabolic pathways in the development and progression of liver disease, and even cancer, and the seeking of targets to enable the disease to be reversed.

9 Jul 2018

Protein complex that helps shape destiny of developing T cells identified

Like a mentor helping medical students choose between specialties, a protein complex helps shape the destiny of developing T cells, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have reported.

9 Jul 2018

Researchers discover biomarkers that accurately identify hypervirulent K. pneumoniae

Imagine a pathogen that infects completely healthy people and can cause blindness in one day and flesh-eating infections, brain abscesses and death in just a few days.

9 Jul 2018

Widespread transfer of genes between species appears to be key driver of evolution

Far from just being the product of our parents, University of Adelaide scientists have shown that widespread transfer of genes between species has radically changed the genomes of today's mammals, and been an important driver of evolution.

9 Jul 2018

Scientists create predictive model for neuroblastoma that incorporates early developmental signals

Neuroblastoma, a rare childhood cancer of the sympathetic nervous system, is particularly deadly because it is difficult to detect and thus generally advanced before treatment begins.

9 Jul 2018

Study uncovers how a sticky protein promotes activity of estrogen in breast cancer cells

New research uncovers how a sticky protein called fibronectin promotes the activity of estrogen in breast cancer cells.

9 Jul 2018

Younger rectal cancer patients do not experience survival benefit from currently recommended therapies

A new study reveals that individuals younger than 50 years of age who are diagnosed with rectal cancer do not experience an overall survival benefit from currently recommended treatments.

9 Jul 2018

UT Southwestern researchers uncover body's microreactors for innate immunity

A DNA-sensing enzyme forms droplets that act as tiny bioreactors creating molecules to stimulate innate immunity – the body's first response to infection, UT Southwestern researchers report. The work, reported today in the journal Science, could lead to novel treatments for infections, autoimmune disease, and cancer.

9 Jul 2018

Researchers discover critical link in mapping recurrent mutations of melanoma

A critical link in mapping recurrent mutations of melanoma -- the most serious form of skin cancer in humans -- has been discovered by researchers at Washington State University School of Molecular Biosciences, in collaboration with researchers at Georgia State University.

6 Jul 2018

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals how complex brain circuit works

The complexity of the human brain presents scientists with immense challenges as they try to find new treatments for a host of diseases and conditions. But the advent of a new technology known as single-cell RNA sequencing is opening a window into how the brain works.

6 Jul 2018

Cancer News and Research

Latest Cancer News and Research

UC San Diego Health now offers new treatment option for men with enlarged prostate

Researchers use x-ray crystallography to reveal how curcumin inhibits cancer

Ludwig-developed antibody drug for deadly brain cancer may have broader applications

Spread of pancreatic cancer to the liver or lungs depends on plasticity of tumor cells

Researchers develop simple blood test to predict likely spread of rare cancer

Researchers use gene therapy to cure obesity and type 2 diabetes in mice

Insight Medical and Onkos Surgical join hands to explore ways to apply augmented reality in musculoskeletal oncology

CTI BioPharma announces Phase III results of PIXUVRI combined with rituximab in aggressive B-cell NHL patients

Preventative HIV vaccines induce robust, comparable immune responses in humans and monkeys

Researchers unmask functioning of protein involved in DNA repair during spermatogenesis

Researchers focus on mechanisms involved in development of non-alcoholic fatty liver disease

Protein complex that helps shape destiny of developing T cells identified

Researchers discover biomarkers that accurately identify hypervirulent K. pneumoniae

Widespread transfer of genes between species appears to be key driver of evolution

Scientists create predictive model for neuroblastoma that incorporates early developmental signals

Study uncovers how a sticky protein promotes activity of estrogen in breast cancer cells

Younger rectal cancer patients do not experience survival benefit from currently recommended therapies

UT Southwestern researchers uncover body's microreactors for innate immunity

Researchers discover critical link in mapping recurrent mutations of melanoma

Single-cell RNA sequencing reveals how complex brain circuit works

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