Tag: cancer
The future of fighting cancer: Zapping tumors in less than a second
Scientists at the Department of Energy's SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory and Stanford University are developing a new accelerator-based technology that could reduce the side effects...
Scientists look to mathematics to make cancer treatment more effective
Scientists at the Pune-based National Chemical Laboratory (NCL) of Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR) have developed a mathematical model that promises to...
New method identifies how drugs attack bad cells
A team of scientists at the Ben-Gurion University of the Negev has demonstrated a new method to target specific proteins, protein family and especially protein-to-protein...
NUS researchers uncover new role of TIP60 protein in controlling tumour formation
Scientists from the Cancer Science Institute of Singapore (CSI Singapore) at the National University of Singapore (NUS) have discovered a new molecular pathway that...
Osteoporosis drug may find use in cancer therapy
In their quest to find new drugs to treat cancer, scientists are looking to old drugs and trying to repurpose them.
A team of researchers...
Existing cancer drugs could prove beneficial for more patients
In a new study by the McGill University, scientists have found that a set of targeted cancer drugs, known as BRAF and MEK inhibitors, have turned...
Australia is about to wipe out cervical cancer within 20 years
Australia looks set to end up the principal nation on the world to wipe out cervical cancer, on account of national vaccination and screening...
Optimizing technologies to detect cancer cell mutations
Cancer cells frequently have transformations in their DNA that can give researchers hints about how the tumor began or which treatment might be best....
Anticancer drugs distributed by a new drug delivery system reduces tumor size
Scientists at the Osaka University in collaboration with Tokyo Tech have developed a new type of drug delivery system that uses a poly (ethylene glycol)–poly(lysine) block...