Immune cells that fight cancer become exhausted within hours of first encountering tumours – new research
Mary Philip, Vanderbilt University and Michael Rudloff, Vanderbilt University A key function of our immune…
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Brain tumours are cognitive parasites – how brain cancer hijacks neural circuits and causes cognitive decline
Saritha Krishna, University of California, San Francisco and Shawn Hervey-Jumper, University of California, San Francisco…
Tumour reasons why cancers thrive in chromosomal chaos
Writing in EMBO reports, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Moores…
Cancer treatment: personalised blood tests can better detect DNA from tumours in the body – new research
Jonathan C. M. Wan, University of Cambridge; Katrin Heider, University of Cambridge, and Nitzan Rosenfeld,…
Blocking tumour signals can hinder cancer’s spread
For most people who die of cancer, the spread of the initial tumour is to…
Starve a Tumour, Feed a Cell: How Cancers Can Resist Drugs
With drug resistance a major challenge in the fight against cancer, a discovery by University…
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…
How cancer metastasis happens: Researchers reveal a key mechanism
Cancer metastasis, the migration of cells from a primary tumour to form distant tumours in…
The evolution of the gene responsible for red meat to produce cancer has been revealed
A sugar called Neu5Gc, present in red meat, some fish and dairy products, is related…