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New Maintenance Treatment Prolongs the Lives of Patients With Acute Myeloid Leukemia
NewsPatients with acute myeloid leukemia (AML), that have gone into remission following initial chemotherapy remain in remission longer and have improved overall survival when they are given the cancer drug azacytidine, according to a randomized, international Phase 3 trial.
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CAR T-Cell Therapy Shows Promising Early Results in Children With Neuroblastoma
News Nov 27, 2020A novel CAR T-cell therapy has shown promising early results in children with neuroblastoma, a rare form of childhood cancer. Twelve children with relapsed or refractory neuroblastoma were treated as part of a Phase I clinical trial.
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Designing “Living Medicines” To Target Tumors Precisely
News Nov 27, 2020By combining machine learning with cell engineering, scientists can design “living medicines” that are able to precisely target tumors.
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Open Source Optical Toolbox Provides Microscopes for All
News Nov 26, 2020Researchers have developed an optical toolbox to build microscopes for a few hundred euros that deliver high-resolution images comparable to commercial microscopes that cost up to a thousand times more.
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Plant-Based Gel Designed To Fast-Track Organoid Growth
News Nov 26, 2020Researchers have created the world's first bioactive plant-based nanocellulose hydrogel to support organoid growth for drug screening and disease modeling for numerous diseases including COVID-19 and cancer.
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Protein May Prevent Damage During Cancer Therapy
News Nov 26, 2020Australian researchers have discovered a protein that could protect the kidneys from "bystander" damage caused by cancer therapies.
Springer Nature Announces New Open-Access Option for Journals
News Nov 25, 2020The publisher Springer Nature has shared its gold open-access (OA) options for Nature journals that will be introduced from January 2021. Whilst the initiative to move towards OA is positive news for its proponents, the considerable price tag attached is a worry.
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Why Immunotherapy Only Works for Some Patients With Head and Neck Cancer
News Nov 25, 2020Researchers have discovered new clues into why some people with head and neck cancer respond to immunotherapy, while others don't.
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New Type of Immunotherapy Developed To Fight Cancer
News Nov 24, 2020A new study reports on a new kind of immunotherapy that gives hope of more treatment options for cancer in the future.
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Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Demonstrates Good Safety and Efficacy in Preclinical Study
News Nov 24, 2020A checkpoint inhibitor vaccine known as PD1-Vaxx was shown to be safe and effective in a colon cancer syngeneic animal model.
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Ovarian Cancer Cells Cooperate To Metastasize
News Nov 23, 2020Any given tumor is composed of a multitude of cell types that can each look or behave differently from its neighbors. A new study shows that this cell diversity can also play a vital role in cancer's ability to invade distant sites within the body.
