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Ben Stokes' father Ged passes away after year-long battle with brain cance
Updated : 5 years, 3 months ago IST
London [UK], December 8 (ANI): Ged Stokes, father of England all-rounder Ben Stokes, has passed away after a year-long battle with brain cancer.
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Personalised drug screens could guide treatment for children with brain ca
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], November 12 (ANI): Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute, University of California San Diego School of Medicine and Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg (KiTZ) have demonstrated that personalised drug screens can be used to identify new therape
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Mapping fundamentals of how cells go awry is a way to prevent cancer
Updated : 5 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 24 (ANI): A new paper suggests that sometime in the future, scientists may be able to prevent cancer by controlling two proteins that operate deep inside the quagmire of epigenetic cell fate transitions.
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Economist Isher Ahluwalia passes away after battling cancer
Updated : 5 years, 5 months ago IST
New Delhi [India], Sep 26 (ANI): Well-known economist and Padma Bhushan awardee Isher Judge Ahluwalia died on Saturday after battling brain cancer for nearly a year.
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Researchers find potential to make brain cancers in children respond bette
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Toronto [Canada], Aug 28 (ANI): Brain cancer in children is always a devastating diagnosis, but researchers may have found a way to have the most serious types of pediatric brain cancer respond better to therapies.
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Study focuses on genes that help cancer cells to penetrate brain
Updated : 5 years, 6 months ago IST
Moscow [Russia], Aug 16 (ANI): An international team of researchers reviewed scientific articles on proteins (and genes encoding them) that help cancer cells enter the brain. The study, that tried to understand the processes that facilitate the formation of metastases in the brain, was publi
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Researchers discover new drug targets for lethal brain cancer
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], Aug 2 (ANI): With the help of a mouse model, a team of researchers has now discovered more than 200 genes with novel and known roles in glioblastoma - the most aggressive type of brain cancer that offer promising new drug targets.
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New drug targets for lethal brain cancer discovered
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
London [UK], July 30 (ANI): Researchers have discovered more than 200 genes with novel and known roles in glioblastoma - the most aggressive type of brain cancer that offer promising new drug targets.
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Jonathan Oppenheim, editor of 'Paris Is Burning', dies at 67
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 21 (ANI): Jonathan Oppenheim, the documentary editor behind the seminal ball culture film 'Paris Is Burning' died on Thursday (local time) in New York City, following a battle with brain cancer, according to The Hollywood Reporter. He was 67.
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Blocking fat storage might offer new way to treat most lethal form of brai
Updated : 5 years, 7 months ago IST
Ohio [USA], July 20 (ANI): Glioblastoma is a lethal form of brain cancer that accumulates fats in lipid droplets and uses them as energy for rapid cell division. Blocking an enzyme that GBM cells use to form the lipid droplets might offer a new way to treat this deadly disease, according to
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New study suggests promising strategy to treat brain cancer patients
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 5 (ANI): In breakthrough discovery with respect to the most common brain tumours diagnosed in younger adults aged 18 to 45 years, a team of investigators have uncovered a potentially promising strategy to target brain tumours -- isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) gene
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Researchers discover new strategy to treat brain cancer patients
Updated : 5 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington D.C. [USA], July 1 (ANI): A team of investigators has uncovered a potentially promising strategy to target brain tumours -- isocitrate dehydrogenase (IDH) genes, which are the most common brain tumours diagnosed in younger adults aged 18 to 45 years.
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