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Targeting bone cells to stop blood cancers
To stop acute myeloid leukaemia, targeting neighboring bone cells may be a better strategy than…
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Stem cell discoveries hold potential to improve cancer treatment
Two recent discoveries by stem cell scientists at Cedars-Sinai in the USA may help make…
Obscure protein is spotlighted in fight against leukaemia
Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL) Professor Christopher Vakoc and former graduate student Sofya Polyanskaya found that AML…
Survival rate of adult patients with relapsed acute lymphoblastic leukaemia after haematopoietic cell transplantation has steadily increased over the past two decades
For patients with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) carrying the Philadelphia chromosome and whose disease relapsed…
Aberrant splicing of CD22 in acute lymphoblastic leukaemia underlies resistance to immunotherapy
Aberrant splicing of messenger RNAs encoding surface antigen CD22 leads to downregulation of this protein…
How alike are the cancer cells from a single patient?
Even within a single patient with cancer, there is a vast diversity of individual tumour…
Study confirms nutrient’s role in childhood blood cancer
A molecular building block of many animal proteins, the amino acid valine, plays a key…
ASH 2021: Drug combination found to keep chronic lymphocytic leukaemia in young patients in remission for several years
Young patients with chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (CLL) can enjoy long remissions on the drug ibrutinib, but must stay on it indefinitely to…
ASH 2021: New drug combo may improve family-donated stem cells as blood cancer treatment
A drug combination can safely prevent transplanted stem cells (graft) from attacking the recipient’s (host)…
Finding new tools for leukaemia treatment
A new study led by João T. Barata from Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo…