Anticancer Therapies – News and Features
News
Evolution of Urinary Tract Cancer Cells Mapped
Researchers at Weill Cornell Medicine have performed the most comprehensive analysis to date of cancer of the ureters or the urine-collection cavities in the kidney, known as upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC).
Article
B Cells, Memory B Cells and Plasma Cells: B Cell Activation, Development and the B Cell Receptor
The adaptive immune system is highly specific. In this article, we focus on B cells, and discuss their development, their roles and what happens when they don’t function as they should.
News
Discovery Could Pave the Way for Universal Automated Drug Discovery
Rice University synthetic biologists have found a way to piggyback on the glucose monitoring technology used in automated insulin dosing systems and make it universally applicable for the monitoring and dosing of virtually any drug.
News
Why Do Some Immune Cells Lose Energy in Solid Tumors?
New research has unveiled new clues behind T-cell metabolism, that could enhance immunotherapies that rely on T cells to fight cancer.
News
Dual Anti-Tumor Vaccine Approach Developed
A research team has discovered that exosomes derived from γδ-T cells not only have direct anti-tumour effects but also, when developed into a tumour vaccine, can effectively induce a tumour-specific immune response.
News
AI Image Analysis Detects 90% of Lymphomas
Researchers have developed a computer model that can successfully find signs of lymph node cancer in 90 percent of cases in one of the largest studies to date of lymphoma.
News
Cancer Deaths Drop Among Middle-Aged in UK
Fewer middle-aged people are dying from cancer in the UK than at any point over the last 25 years, with mortality rates dropping by over a third.
News
Targeting Cancer-Fueling Proteins Shows Potential for Treating Aggressive Leukaemia
Researchers have found a new way to potentially treat one of the most common forms of acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. The study was able to kill leukaemia cells in the lab and stop cancer cells from growing.
News
Genetic “Dark Matter” Could Help Monitor Cancer
Researchers from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center have developed a machine-learning approach that identifies these sequences in both tumor DNA and cell-free DNA (cfDNA) that are shed into the blood.
News
Project To Produce Antimicrobial Drugs From Food By-Products Receives £1 Million Grant
A project aiming to use food by-products to produce antimicrobial drugs from bacteria has been awarded a £1.1 million grant to help antimicrobial production to be more cost-effective and sustainable.
Advertisement