Cardiologists establish how e-cigarettes damage the brain, blood vessels and lungs

Cardiologists have issued a stark warning about the dangers of e-cigarettes, particularly for young people, as results of new research show the damage they cause to the brain, heart, blood vessels and lungs. The study, which is published in the…

Anthrax may be the next tool in the fight against bladder cancer

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – Anthrax may soon help more people win the fight against bladder cancer, which the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention says strikes about 72,000 Americans each year and kills about 16,000, and is one of the…

The Affordable Care Act’s impact on insurance coverage & treatment in patients with HIV and cancer

A recent study reveals that, for people living with both HIV and cancer (PLWHC), implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved insurance coverage, both in states that expanded Medicaid coverage and those that did not. Lack…

Team plucks needle from genomic haystack, finding essential transcription factor binding sites

Using CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens a multi-institutional research team systematically interrogated the essentiality of more than 10,000 forkhead box protein A1 (FOXA1) and CTCF binding sites in breast and prostate cancer cells, plucking useful needles from a massive genomic haystack that…

The Affordable Care Act’s impact on insurance coverage & treatment in patients with HIV and cancer

A recent study reveals that, for people living with both HIV and cancer (PLWHC), implementation of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) improved insurance coverage, both in states that expanded Medicaid coverage and those that did not. Lack…

NIH RO1 grant to help improve ultrasound tomography for breast cancer detection

Mammography is the current state-of-the-art method for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer. However, even a mammogram doesn’t detect certain subtle breast cancers, especially those in younger women who typically have denser breast tissue. In the growing need to improve imaging…

Team plucks needle from genomic haystack, finding essential transcription factor binding sites

Using CRISPR/Cas9 knockout screens a multi-institutional research team systematically interrogated the essentiality of more than 10,000 forkhead box protein A1 (FOXA1) and CTCF binding sites in breast and prostate cancer cells, plucking useful needles from a massive genomic haystack that…

NIH RO1 grant to help improve ultrasound tomography for breast cancer detection

Mammography is the current state-of-the-art method for detecting and diagnosing breast cancer. However, even a mammogram doesn’t detect certain subtle breast cancers, especially those in younger women who typically have denser breast tissue. In the growing need to improve imaging…

TTUHSC researchers publish preclinical data on new drug combination to treat neuroblastoma

Neuroblastoma is the most common cancer outside of the brain in infants and young children and often fails to respond to therapy. Though it can appear in several areas of the body, it commonly develops as a solid tumor most…

Russian biotechnology company BIOCAD announced plans to enter the EU market

CPhI-2019 became the first large-scale international platform to present the BIOCAD’s latest original drugs based on monoclonal antibodies – netakimab and progolimab; plans were also announced for their entry to the European market

NUS researchers discover enzyme’s role in ‘natural killer T cell lymphoma’

Natural killer T cell lymphoma (NKTL) is an aggressive form of cancer with very poor treatment outcomes in the advanced stages. NKTL generally affects the upper airways and digestive tracts in patients, but can also involve the gastrointestinal system, skin…

Brain cancer-detecting innovation by CCNY researchers receives two US patents

Raising hopes of rapid and more specific brain cancer diagnoses, a new “Resonance Raman” technique developed by world-renowned physicist Robert R. Alfano and his IUSL research group at The City College of New York is the recipient of two U.S.…

Vitamin D dials down the aggression in melanoma cells

Vitamin D influences the behaviour of melanoma cells in the lab by making them less aggressive, Cancer Research UK scientists have found. The researchers from the University of Leeds discovered that vitamin D influences the behaviour of a signalling pathway…

A new machine learning approach detects esophageal cancer better than current methods

Researchers at Dartmouth’s Norris Cotton Cancer Center have created a deep learning model that can accurately identify cancerous esophagus tissue on microscopy images without the time-consuming manual data input required for current methods