Tracing The Possible Role Of Damaged DNA In The Development Of Tumors
DNA provides the instruction manual for all life forms. Occasionally, instructions are not carried out properly, and bad messages are sent leading to the creation of mutant proteins and possible tumor...
View ArticleMIT: New Nanoparticle Could Deliver Cancer Drugs To Nearly Any Type Of Tumor
MIT chemical engineers have designed a new type of drug-delivery nanoparticle that exploits a trait shared by almost all tumors: They are more acidic than healthy tissues. Such particles could target...
View ArticleProtein Identified As Enemy Of Vital Tumor Suppressor PTEN
A protein known as WWP2 appears to play a key role in tumor survival, a research team headed by a scientist at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center reports in an advance online publication...
View ArticlePotential Therapy For Tumor-Associated Epilepsy
Glioma, one of the most deadly and common types of brain tumor, is often associated with seizures, but the origins of these seizures and effective treatments for them have been elusive. Now a team...
View ArticleAltering Tumor Microenvironment Shown To Boost Response To Cancer Drugs...
It should be possible to significantly improve the response of common cancers to existing “classical” chemotherapy drugs, say scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL), by introducing agents...
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