Outsmarting cancer by exploiting DNA repair flaws
Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have mapped the complex network cells use to repair their genetic material, revealing previously hidden vulnerabilities in cancer cells.
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Researchers at ETH Zurich in Switzerland have mapped the complex network cells use to repair their genetic material, revealing previously hidden vulnerabilities in cancer cells.
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.
In this article Maria Bernabeu, Group Leader at EMBL, Barcelona, discusses why it is important to research and develop novel therapeutics for cerebral malaria and how her research group intends to develop a 3D blood-brain barrier model for this purpose.
Researchers have shown that it is possible to identify genetic catalysts that accelerate the evolution of antibiotic resistance in bacteria...
The European Research Council has announced its 2018 grant competitions with a total budget of around €1.86bn...
Researchers have pioneered a technique which uses florescent imaging to track the actions of key enzymes in cancer, genetic disorders and kidney disease.
This finding could have a great impact on the study of paediatric tumours, as it could already constitute one of the factors that produces their growth.
Biochemist and physician Professor Ivan Dikic and microbiologist Professor Volker Müller are very honoured that their pioneering research projects have been selected for this substantial financial support.
Orion and Finland are both celebrating their centenaries in 2017.
8 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Through a process involving vitamin A, researchers from Imperial College London observed that it was possible to switch off pancreatic stellate cells...