Milestone reached in new leukaemia drug
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory scientists, with chemists and cancer biologists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI),…
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Multidisciplinary transplantation evaluation shows promise for older adults with blood cancers
Older adults with blood cancers can benefit from a team-based, holistic evaluation before undergoing transplantation,…
Precisely poking cells en masse to cure cancer
What if you could cure cancer by re-engineering patients’ cells to better target and destroy…
Leukaemia cells can transform into non-cancerous cells through epigenetic changes
All the tissues of our body have the same DNA, but they perform very different…
Lasting tumour regression of leukaemia and lymphoma in mouse models achieved by U-M compound
For decades, a transcription factor known as STAT3 has been a major therapeutic target in…
Learning to stop cancer at its roots
Why do some cancers come back? Sometimes, a treatment can effectively eliminate cancer cells to…
Blood cancers: New generation stem cell transplant significantly reduces complications for patients
The discovery of the UM171 molecule, by Dr. Guy Sauvageau and Anne Marinier, made headlines…
Chemotherapy sometimes sets the stage for drug-resistant leukaemia at relapse
Chemotherapy has helped make the most common childhood cancer one of the most curable, but…
Cocktail proves toxic to leukaemia cells
By Mike Williams, Rice University A combination of drugs that affect mitochondria—the power plants inside…
Treating the TOTAL patient: clinical trial reduces relapse
Despite modern therapies, 10% of patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) treated in the U.S.…