Precision medicine identifies key recurring mutation in head and neck cancers
Head and neck cancer is one of the leading causes of cancer-related deaths worldwide, and…
Browsing: Genetics
Investigational breast cancer vaccine plus immune therapy work well in tandem
A vaccine for HER2-positive breast cancers that is being tested in a clinical trial at…
New drug targets for lethal brain cancer discovered
More than 200 genes with novel and known roles in glioblastoma – the most aggressive…
Gene-controlling mechanisms play key role in cancer progression
As cancer cells evolve, many of their genes become overactive while others are turned down.…
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,…