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Gene-controlling mechanisms play key role in cancer progression
As cancer cells evolve, many of their genes become overactive while others are turned down.…
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Immune system could be trained to spot drug-resistant cancers
Aggressive cancers could be treated with immunotherapies that direct the immune system to kill cancer…
Widening cancer gene testing is cost effective and could prevent millions of cancer cases
Screening entire populations for breast and ovarian cancer gene mutations could prevent millions more breast…
Precision trial highlights need for new approach to treating genomically complex cancers
A pioneering lung cancer study, led by the University of Birmingham’s Cancer Research UK Clinical…
Lung cancer in non-smokers likely to respond differently to treatment
Lung cancer in non-smokers is a diverse and distinct disease from that in smokers, and…
Researchers create an analytic tool that opens a new frontier of cancer discovery
Gene coding regions constitute 2% of the human genome. St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital scientists…
New signposts in DNA for cancer and disease risk uncovered
By sequencing entire genomes for DNA modifications, and analysing both cancer tissues and healthy ones,…
New DNA sequencing technique may help unravel genetic diversity of cancer tumours
The ability to sequence the genome of a tumour has revolutionised cancer treatment over the…
Cancer treatment: personalised blood tests can better detect DNA from tumours in the body – new research
Jonathan C. M. Wan, University of Cambridge; Katrin Heider, University of Cambridge, and Nitzan Rosenfeld,…
UCI researchers uncover cancer cell vulnerabilities; may lead to better cancer therapies
A new University of California, USA, study reveals a protein responsible for genetic changes resulting…