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Tissue Factor: watching cancer cells dying on TV

A brand new type of cancer drug that acts as a 'Trojan horse' to get inside tumor cells has shown promise in patients with...

Medulloblastoma: on the hunt for mutations and solutions

Among young children, medulloblastoma is among the most common form of brain tumor. Medulloblastoma, which is divided into four subgroups, is partially caused when...

Eosino-philia for cancer: the hidden ancient weapon rises up

Eosinophils are white blood cells that secrete powerfully destructive proteins.Major basic protein 1 and 2 (MBP-1, MBP-2), eosinophil-derived neurotoxin (EDN), and eosinophil peroxidase...

Lung cancer needs lactate to grow: and protease becomes the gatekeeper

UT Southwestern researchers have found that an enzyme on the surface of some lung cancer cells helps feed the cancer, making it a tempting...

OGG1: as genome “greasemonkey” and inflammatory “mailman”

A multidisciplinary team of researchers led from Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have developed an anti-inflammatory drug molecule with a new mechanism of action. By...

Tregs on duty: solved how TGF is “GRAPped” in trap

Belgian research groups from the UCLouvain and WELBIO, VIB and Ghent University, and the biotechnology company Argenx elucidated the three-dimensional structure of an assembly...

How emotions directly and indirectly influence cancer: the first systematic study

"The relationship between a person's emotional state and cancer has been demonstrated in the past, but mainly in relation to negative feelings such as...

Silver bullets for cancers: now it’s time to believe it “on the word”

Apart from the fiction related to werewolves, there has always been talk of finding a "silver bullet" to kill tumors, as declared by the...

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