Researchers have been battling to find the cure for cancer since we began to understand what cancer really was. A cure is the ultimate goal, but most medical professionals and patients would... Read more
A new smart research robot accelerates research on cancer treatments. The new robot system finds optimal treatment combinations. Scientific Reports (Nature Publishing Group) is publishing an... Read more
Biochemical sensor implanted at initial biopsy could allow doctors to better monitor and adjust cancer treatments. In the battle against cancer, which kills nearly 8 million people worldwide... Read more
Nanoparticles developed at UMass Medical School advance potential clinical application for photodynamic therapy for cancer An international group of scientists led by Gang Han, PhD, has comb... Read more
How a Tiny “Bug” Can Stop Cancer in its Tracks as a Vaccine Toxoplasma gondii (T. gondii) is a single-celled parasite that is happiest in a cat’s intestines, but it can live in any wa... Read more
Rice University researchers find new possibilities for benign, ‘tunable’ virus Rice University scientists have designed a tunable virus that works like a safe deposit box. It takes two keys... Read more
Researchers from the cancer nanotechnology and signal transduction and therapeutics programs of UCLA’s Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center (JCCC) have developed an innovative technique using... Read more
A new study conducted by scientists from the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute at Harvard Medical School and Karolinska Institutet presents very promising results for the treatment of the cancer... Read more
Purdue Univ. researchers have successfully eliminated the native infection preferences of a Sindbis virus engineered to target and kill cancer cells, a milestone in the manipulation of this... Read more
Treating a cancerous tumor is like watering a houseplant with a fire hose—too much water kills the plant, just as too much chemotherapy and radiation kills the patient before it kills the tu... Read more
If the results are confirmed in humans, the implications for personalized therapies for other cancers could mean fewer radiation treatments, or perhaps, ideally, one single high-dose treatme... Read more