NCI scientists identify targets for melanoma immunotherapy
9/10/2013
Using a highly sensitive technology called NanoString, researchers have identified seven targets that could potentially be used to develop new immunotherapies for patients with metastatic melanoma, according to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
NCI scientists identify targets for melanoma immunotherapy
9/10/2013
Using a highly sensitive technology called NanoString, researchers have identified seven targets that could potentially be used to develop new immunotherapies for patients with metastatic melanoma, according to a study published in Clinical Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Moffitt Cancer Center is recruiting participants for a study aimed at reducing ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal cancer is the third leading cancer killer in the United States, despite its detectability and preventability. Low screening rates are a factor, especially among black men and women; a group that has the highest incidence of colorectal cancer...
Moffitt Cancer Center is recruiting participants for a study aimed at reducing ethnic disparities in colorectal cancer screening. Colorectal cancer is the third leading cancer killer in the United States, despite its detectability and preventability. Low screening rates are a factor, especially among black men and women; a group that has the highest incidence of colorectal cancer...
Researchers uncover genetic cause of childhood leukemia
9/10/2013
For the first time, a genetic link specific to risk of childhood leukemia has been identified, according to a team of researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, University of Washington, and other institutions. The discovery was reported online in the journal Nature Genetics...
Bone growth factor may increase benign tumors but not malignant cancer
9/10/2013
Patients undergoing spinal fusion surgery with bone morphogenetic protein (BMP) appear to be at increased risk of benign tumors - but not cancers, reports a study in the September issue of Neurosurgery, official journal of the Congress of Neurological Surgeons. The journal is published by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, a part of Wolters Kluwer Health...
Potential for new handle on treating cancer by harnessing Natural Killer cells
9/10/2013
Mammals contain cells whose primary function is to kill other cells in the body. The so-called Natural Killer (NK) cells are highly important in defending our bodies against viruses or even cancer. Scientists at the University of Veterinary Medicine, Vienna (Vetmeduni Vienna) provide evidence that NK cell activity can be influenced by phosphorylating a protein (STAT1) in NK cells...
Researchers uncover genetic cause of childhood leukemia
9/10/2013
For the first time, a genetic link specific to risk of childhood leukemia has been identified, according to a team of researchers from Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, University of Washington, and other institutions. The discovery was reported online in the journal Nature Genetics...
Team IDs 2 pathways through which chromosomes are rearranged
9/10/2013
Biologists reported in Nature that they have identified two pathways through which chromosomes are rearranged in mammalian cells. These types of changes are associated with some cancers and inherited disorders in people. "Our finding provides a target to prevent these rearrangements, so we could conceivably prevent cancer in some high-risk people," said senior author Edward P. (Paul) Hasty, D...
New 'artificial nose' device can speed diagnosis of sepsis
9/10/2013
Disease-causing bacteria stink - literally - and the odor released by some of the nastiest microbes has become the basis for a faster and simpler new way to diagnose blood infections and finger the specific microbe, scientists reported here today at the 246th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society (ACS), the world's largest scientific society...