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Nanotechnology platform sensitises cancer to immunotherapy
A new pre-clinical study has utilised nanoparticles to attach immune-activating molecules to cancer cells.
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Experimental cancer vaccine shows promise in animal studies
NIH researchers who intravenously delivered a cancer vaccine to mice report that it increased the number of T cells able to combat tumours.
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Metastatic potential of cancer cells increased in high viscosity environments
UPF and John Hopkins scientists have discovered how cancer cells exposed to high viscosity environments change their movements to improve their invasiveness and favour metastases.
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Vitamin C improves immunogenic properties of dendritic cells, study shows
Spanish researchers have discovered that vitamin C may hold the key to improving the efficacy of dendritic cell-derived anticancer therapies.
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RNA: the key to cancer research?
In the production of RNA, researchers in Spain and Denmark have found a method for attacking cancer cells.
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Newly discovered GPCR signalling process opens possibility for novel therapies
US researchers have found that G protein-coupled receptors function in a way not previously known, which suggests untapped potential.
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New method to label proteins could help track disease
Scientists have developed a new method to study the proteins released by cells, which could lead to the development of new tools to track diseases including cancer.
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Researcher develops nanoelectronics for personalised immunotherapies
Dr Larysa Baraban, physicist at the Helmholtz-Zentrum Dresden-Rossendorf (HZDR) is researching a chip that should ultimately make it possible to develop personalised cancer immunotherapies.
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Novel approach developed to deliver cancer immunotherapy drug
Researchers have eradicated malignant tumours in mice by combining an immunotherapy agent with a molecular delivery system that targets tumour acidity.
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Researchers develop a microfluidic chip to isolate circulating tumour cells
The team from Hangzhou Dianzi University developed a three-dimensional-stacked multi-stage inertial microfluidic sort chip to enrich and separate CTCs.
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Machine-learning technique classifies key immune cells for suite of diseases
Trinity College Dublin has developed a new technique that accurately determines the state of macrophages.
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Study uncovers relationship between T cells and CD4
Researchers at the University of Arizona Health Sciences found that CD4 plays an active role in regulating T-cell receptor signalling.
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Newly discovered protein could be used to produce life-saving antifungals
Researchers have discovered a protein, Ait1, that is responsible for controlling cell growth in yeasts. Since humans and yeasts have remarkably similar cellular mechanisms, teasing out the differences presents drug developers with new target.
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Scientists inhibit cancer cell growth using pyrrolizidine alkaloid
Researchers in Japan have succeeded in inhibiting cancer cell growth using pyrrolizidine alkaloid, a component of plant origin previously thought to be too toxic to administer.