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Vicious circles: Ring-shaped DNA provides cancer cells with a malignant twist
Deoxyribonucleic acid or DNA encodes information, not only in its sequence but also in its…
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How gene-edited white blood cells are helping fight cancer
Piyush K. Jain, University of Florida For the first time in the United States, a…
25 years of learning to combat cervical cancer
According to the World Health Organization, cervical cancer is the fourth most common type of…
Important mucin link between microbial infections and many cancers
It is generally known that viruses, with their cell-invading capabilities, can be responsible for a…
Genetic alterations caused by cancer therapies identified
Living implies change. This is what happens to the cells of our bodies as we…
New candidate cancer genes identified using math models
Computational modelling is the use of computers to simulate and study the behaviour of complex…
Turning ‘junk’ DNA into gold
Mining the rich uncharted territory of the genome or genetic material of a cancer cell…
A step closer to cancer precision medicine
Researchers from the Faculty of Medicine and the Institute for Molecular Medicine (FIMM) at the…
Team plucks needle from genomic haystack, finding essential transcription factor binding sites
Using CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens a multi-institutional research team systematically interrogated the essentiality of more than…
Genetic diversity facilitates cancer therapy
The constant battle against infectious pathogens has had a decisive influence on the human immune…