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Self-assembling nanoparticle could aid cancer diagnosis

July 29, 2014
News
A new self-assembling nanoparticle which targets cancerous tumours could boost the effectiveness of MRI scanning to help doctors diagnose the disease earlier. The iron oxide nanoparticles (IONPs), developed at Imperial...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Medical Diagnostics, Oncology
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Four new genes confirmed to increase familial breast cancer risk

June 20, 2014
News
Four new genes have been added to those already known to increase the risk of familial breast cancer. Although BRCA1 and BRCA2 are the most well-known inherited breast cancer genes,...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Cell Biology, Oncology, Proteomics & Genomics
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Neutron analysis reveals cancer drug clustering

May 30, 2014
News
Cancer pharmaceuticals currently have to be administered intravenously because of a tendency for solutions containing high concentrations of some antibodies to be highly viscous.Not only does this prevent large scale...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology, Pathology
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New gene linked to oesophageal cancer treatment

May 23, 2014
News
A newly discovered gene linked to oesophageal cancer could hold the key to treatments for the hard-to-treat disease. Overexpression of multiple copies of prognostic biomarker TRIM44 leads to higher activity...
Life Sciences
Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology, Proteomics & Genomics
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Breast cancer mimics brain development process

May 2, 2014
News
A key element in the development of the nervous system may also play a pivotal role in the spread of breast cancer say researchers from the University of York. Voltage-gated...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Neuroscience, Oncology
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Rotating nanoparticles cause cancer cells to self-destruct

April 29, 2014
News
Magnetically controlled nanoparticles which force tumour cells to self-destruct could form part of future cancer treatment, say researchers in Sweden. The team from the University of Lund have designed a...
Life Sciences, Materials
Biological Sciences, Nanotechnology, Oncology
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Preserving fertility in young male cancer patients

April 2, 2014
News
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
News
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
News
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...
Life Sciences
Biological Sciences, Drugs & Pharmaceuticals, Oncology
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Breaking the blood-brain barrier

October 28, 2013
News
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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