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Preserving fertility in young male cancer patients

April 2, 2014
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Freezing testicular tissue from young boys who are not yet sexually mature before they undergo cancer treatment could help preserve their fertility say researchers in America. Spermatogonial stem cells (SSCs)...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Oncology
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Merm1 cancer target

March 26, 2014
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A newly-discovered enzyme is supressed in cancer and lung inflammation and could help in the development of new drugs to target the disease. Merm1 is essential for normal functioning of...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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Prostate cancer drugs ‘not treating root cause’

March 5, 2014
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New drugs aimed at treating prostate cancer may not be targeting the root cause of the disease say researchers who have discovered that methylation – thought to be a significant...
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Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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Breaking the blood-brain barrier

October 28, 2013
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Scientists from the University of Oxford have broken the blood-brain barrier, allowing cancer drugs to be delivered to life-threatening cancers which have spread to the vital organ.The study – in...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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Why blind mole rats don’t get cancer

December 19, 2012
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Biologists have determined why blind mole rats are immune to cancer. The mechanism differs from that discovered three years ago in the naked mole rat, another long-living, cancer-resistant rat species....
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Biological Sciences, Oncology, Zoology
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‘Barcode’ blood test for prostate cancer

October 26, 2012
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A blood test that reads genetic changes like a barcode, and can detect aggressive prostate cancer has been designed.  A group at The Institute of Cancer Research and The Royal...
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Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Medical Diagnostics, Oncology
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Detecting disease beneath the skin

October 15, 2012
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An international team of researchers has developed an advanced optics system to noninvasively detect disease by looking underneath the skin at blood vessel networks. One day, the high resolution 3D...
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Biological Sciences, Developmental Biology, Medical Diagnostics, Oncology
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Stopping cancer in its tracks

September 24, 2012
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Cancer can be stopped in its tracks by a mutant gene, without any outside help from toxic chemotherapy drug say American researchers. While studying the mechanisms of gene integrity, researchers...
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Biological Sciences, Oncology
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Skin cancer found in fish

September 21, 2012
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Skin cancer has been identified for the first time in wild coral trout populations in the Great Barrier Reef – directly beneath the largest hole in the ozone layer. Researchers...
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Biological Sciences, Oncology, Zoology
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Target healthy tissue to treat cancer

August 20, 2012
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Cancer treatments usually target the disease-causing tumour, but researchers in Belfast suggest targeting the non-cancerous cells around a tumour could be a more effective treatment. Researchers from Queen’s University Belfast...
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Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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