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A step toward a better way to make gene therapies to attack cancer and genetic disorders
A UCLA-led US research team today reports that it has developed a new method for…
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AACR 2020: Study finds no overall survival benefit, but improved quality of life with talazoparib in advanced BRCA-mutated breast cancer
Phase III EMBRACA trial survival benefit results may be affected by subsequent treatments New data…
Scientists double understanding of genetic risk of melanoma
A global collaboration of scientists has more than doubled the known number of regions on…
A cellular mechanism protecting against cancer
Susanne Hellmuth and Olaf Stemmann from the Chair of Genetics at the University of Bayreuth,…
New targeted agent produces considerable responses in patients with uterine cancer
In its first clinical trial in patients with a hard-to-treat form of uterine cancer, a…
Gene signature found for poor response to standard chemotherapy in rare uterine cancer
Women who don’t survive a rare and aggressive uterine cancer called uterine serous carcinoma, have…
Human uterus colonised by clones with cancer-driving mutations that arise early in life
Many cells in the inner lining of the uterus carry ‘cancer-driving’ mutations that frequently arise…
Nutrient deficiency in tumour cells attracts cells that suppress the immune system
Some solid tumours have a very high growth rate, which often leads to a lack…
New risk prediction model could identify those at higher risk of pancreatic cancer
A risk prediction model that combined genetic and clinical factors with circulating biomarkers identified people…
Finding leukaemia’s weakness using genome-wide CRISPR technology
A team of researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores…