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ALK1 protein may play a role in breast cancer metastasis
15 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists from Lund University have discovered that expression of ALK1 is significantly associated with the incidence of breast cancer metastasis...
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Mini-breast grown in petri-dishes – a new tool for cancer research
12 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have created 3D organoid-structures that recapitulate normal breast development and function from single patient-derived cells...
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Mutated TCF12 gene linked to aggressive form of brain cancer
12 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have identified that errors in a gene known as TCF12 are associated with more aggressive forms of a disease called anaplastic oligodendroglioma...
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BioNTech launches MammaTyper breast cancer diagnostic test in Europe
11 June 2015 | By Victoria White
BioNTech has launched MammaTyper, a molecular diagnostic test for breast cancer, for universal use in pathology laboratories in Europe...
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TLR4 has opposing roles in breast cancer development
11 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Countering previously held beliefs, researchers have discovered that inhibiting TLR4 may not be a wise treatment strategy in all cancers...
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Protein from Vibrio vulnificus can inhibit tumour cell growth by cutting the protein Ras
9 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have discovered that a toxin secreted by Vibrio vulnificus has potential to prevent the growth of tumours by cutting the protein Ras...
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Myxoma virus kills cancer cells while blocking graft-versus-host disease in bone marrow transplants
8 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have discovered that the myxoma virus can kill some kinds of cancer cells while eliminating a complication of bone marrow transplants...
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T cell exhaustion study has possible implications for cancer and antiviral therapies
4 June 2015 | By Victoria White
When the T cells of your immune system are forced to deal over time with cancer or a chronic infection, they can develop "T cell exhaustion"...
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Triple treatment keeps lung cancer from coming back
4 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Lung cancer often returns and the recurring cancer is often resistant to the chemotherapy and other drugs that originally drove it into remission...
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Researchers engineer probiotics to detect liver tumours
1 June 2015 | By Victoria White
Engineers at MIT and the University of California at San Diego (UCSD) have devised a way to detect liver tumours, by enlisting the help of probiotics...
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Presence of IGFBPs correlates with tumour-promoting effects of MMP9 in breast cancer
29 May 2015 | By Victoria White
A team of researchers has found that the presence of IGFBP-1 interacted with MMP9 to promote breast cancer tumour formation in mouse models...
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Dormant cancer cells can ‘wake up’ after decades
28 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have found genetic evidence that dormant cancer cells can avoid the effects of treatment only to ‘wake up’ many years later...
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Blocking LOX enzyme could prevent breast cancer from spreading
28 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Scientists have identified an enzyme, LOX, that possibly holds the key to preventing secondary cancers in breast cancer patients...
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Eureka Therapeutics and Boehringer Ingelheim enter into antibody research agreement
22 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Eureka Therapeutics and Boehringer Ingelheim have entered into a research agreement for the discovery of novel therapeutic antibodies in oncology...
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Scientists unveil ‘Rosetta Stone’ of prostate cancer
21 May 2015 | By Victoria White
Almost 90% of men with advanced prostate cancer carry genetic mutations in their tumours that could be targeted by either existing or new cancer drugs...