by drstegallio | Apr 20, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
After her brain cancer became resistant to chemotherapy and then to targeted treatments, 26-year-old Lisa Rosendahl’s doctors gave her only a few months to live. Now a paper published January 17 in the journal eLife describes a new drug combination that has...
by drstegallio | Apr 15, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
Now a team led by researchers at the Duke Cancer Institute have identified a cellular process that cancer cells hijack to hoard cholesterol and fuel their growth. Identifying this process could inform the development of better ways to control cholesterol accumulation...
by drstegallio | Apr 13, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
Scientists at The Wistar Institute have unveiled part of the protein complex that protects telomeres — the ends of our chromosomes. The study, published online in Nature Communications, explains how a group of genetic mutations associated with this protein...
by drstegallio | Apr 11, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
A nanoscale product of human cells that was once considered junk is now known to play an important role in intercellular communication and in many disease processes, including cancer metastasis. Researchers at Penn State have developed nanoprobes to rapidly isolate...
by drstegallio | Apr 10, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
There’s a reason why melanoma, the most serious type of skin cancer, is so aggressive. You just need to watch the cells in action. Researchers at the University of Iowa did just that, documenting in real time and in 3-D how melanoma cells form tumors. The cells...
by Jonathan Stegall | Mar 30, 2017 | Cancer, Cancer Research
Study identifies how cancer cells may develop resistance to FGFR inhibitors A mechanism by which cancer cells develop resistance to a class of drugs called fibroblast growth factor receptor (FGFR) inhibitors has now been uncovered by investigators. The researchers...