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Family of black woman suing biotech firm for taking cancer cells without c
Updated : 4 years, 4 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 16 (ANI): The family of an African-American woman, Henrietta Lacks whose cervical cancer cells were taken without consent for research in 1951 is suing a biotech firm for compensation.
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Weighing cancer cells to personalise drug choices
Updated : 4 years, 5 months ago IST
Washington [US], October 6 (ANI): Researchers at MIT and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have developed a new way to determine whether individual patients will respond to a specific cancer drug or not. This kind of test could help doctors to choose alternative therapies for patients who don't r
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Study finds cancer cells eat themselves for survival
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Copenhagen [Denmark], July 3 (ANI): A new study focusing on the membrane of cancer cells showed a completely new way by which cancer cells can repair the damage that otherwise might kill them.
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Breast cancer's response to tumour stiffness might help predict bone metas
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 3 (ANI): Cancer cells become more aggressive when exposed to tissue stiffening and that these changes persist over time, according to a new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers.
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Cancer cells eat themselves to survive: Study
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Copenhagen (Denmark), July 3 (ANI): It is the membrane of cancer cells that is at the focus of the researchers at The University of Copenhagen, Faculty of Health and Medical Sciences who have shown a completely new way in which cancer cells can repair the damage that can otherwise kill them.
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Study finds breast cancer's response to tumour stiffness may predict bone
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], July 1 (ANI): A new study by University of Arizona Health Sciences researchers found that cancer cells become more aggressive when exposed to tissue stiffening and that these changes persist over time.
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Study focuses on fighting cancer by unlocking the potential of viruses
Updated : 4 years, 8 months ago IST
Washington [US], June 30 (ANI): Researchers recently conducted a new study focused on the development of novel anticancer strategies based on oncolytic viruses, "good" viruses that can specifically infect, replicate in and kill cancer cells.
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Study: Childhood cancer discovery may stop tumour spread before it starts
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Vancouver [Canada], June 1 (ANI): In breakthrough research, a new discovery in Ewing sarcoma, an aggressive and often fatal childhood cancer, has uncovered the potential to prevent cancer cells from spreading beyond their primary tumour site.
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Piperlongumine promotes death of retinoblastoma cancer cells: Study
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 31 (ANI): A new study in the Impact Journals LLC found that Piperlongumine (PL), an amide alkaloid constituent of the fruit of the long pepper, reduces tumour growth and induces cell death by regulating the cell cycle.
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Head, neck cancer cells hijack nearby healthy tissue, promote further inva
Updated : 4 years, 9 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 27 (ANI): Up to half of the patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma will experience tumour recurrence or new tumours- tumours that often spread and are difficult to treat.
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Scientists discover way to trick cancer cells into consuming toxic drugs
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 7 (ANI): A new research led by a team at the Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) points to a promising strategy to boost tumours' intake of cancer drugs, thereby increasing the effectiveness of chemotherapy treatments.
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Research finds association between genetic changes in head-neck cancer, im
Updated : 4 years, 10 months ago IST
Washington [US], May 2 (ANI): A multi-institutional study, drove by the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences journal, distinguished both the hereditary abnormalities that drive pre-cancer cells that lead to an intrusive kind of head and neck cancer and patients who are liable to r
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