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Cancer research that’s out-of-this-world
Australia’s first space research mission to the International Space Station (ISS) will attempt to establish…
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What protects killer immune cells from harming themselves?
White blood cells, which release a toxic potion of proteins to kill cancerous and virus-infected…
Discovery by Hebrew University scientists could revolutionise chemotherapy
It is a feeling that many who receive a cancer diagnosis can identify with: heartbreak…
Research affirms imaging technique’s ability to characterise healthy and non-healthy tissue
In an article published in the Journal of Biomedical Optics (JBO), research observed across 92 ex vivo…
Linking wound healing and cancer risk
When our skin is damaged, a whole set of biological processes springs into action to…
Phase II trial shows neurocognitive function decline but stable quality of life in first year after temozolomide-based chemoradiotherapy
A secondary analysis of the phase II clinical trial NRG-RTOG 0424, which initially reported a 73.1%…
Encouraging normal liver cells to fight cancer
A study conducted at the VIB-KU Leuven Center for Cancer Biology discovered that healthy liver…
Cancer patients are at higher risk of dying from heart disease and stroke
More than one in ten cancer patients do not die from their cancer but from…
Predicting metastasis from primary tumour size
A new mathematical model uses the size of a cancer patient’s initial, primary tumour to…
How do gliomas evolve?
The Glioma Longitudinal Analysis (GLASS) Consortium characterised diffuse glioma cells both before and after therapy…