Michigan State University physicians have found that vitamin D, if taken for at least three years, could help cancer patients live longer. The findings suggest that the vitamin carries signi... Read more
A research team at Dartmouth College has developed a new strategy for drug discovery and development that can be used to produce targeted therapies against diseases such as cancer and neurod... Read more
Researchers at The Wistar Institute and the University of South Florida have advanced a novel compound that specifically targets the endoplasmic reticulum (ER) stress response that is freque... Read more
Stanford researchers have developed synthetic proteins that can rewire cancer cells in a lab dish by co-opting critical disease-associated pathways Synthetic proteins engineered to recognize... Read more
The vaccine proves safe in a small sample of human subjects, opening the way for the next phase of testing A new colorectal cancer vaccine showed positive results in the phase 1 clinical tri... Read more
Researchers at Mount Sinai have developed a novel approach to cancer immunotherapy, injecting immune stimulants directly into a tumor to teach the immune system to destroy it and other tumor... Read more
The difficulty in spotting minute amounts of disease circulating in the bloodstream has proven a stumbling block in the detection and treatment of cancers that advance stealthily with few sy... Read more
A new method to diagnose cancer cells inside lymph nodes could allow doctors to treat cancers before they spread around the body. The vast majority of cancer deaths occur due to the spread o... Read more
Precision cancer drugs called PARP inhibitors have a previously unknown ability to boost the immune system, and could help many more patients benefit from immunotherapy, a new study reveals.... Read more
Near-infrared technology pinpoints fluorescent probes deep within living tissue; may be used to detect cancer earlier. Many types of cancer could be more easily treated if they were detected... Read more
Even among cancers, pancreatic cancer is an especially sinister form of disease. The one-year survival rate is extremely low, and treatment progress has lagged behind that of many other mali... Read more
Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago and Queensland University of Technology of Australia, have developed a device that can isolate individual cancer cells from patient blood... Read more
An engineered virus kills cancer cells more effectively than another virus currently used in treatments, according to Hokkaido University researchers. Hokkaido University researchers have en... Read more
Scientists at USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Japan’s Nagoya University find and test a promising drug that stops cancer by interfering with the cancer cells’ metabolism a... Read more
New research builds on Nobel-winning immune checkpoint blockade work Immunotherapy’s promise in the fight against cancer drew international attention after two scientists won a Nobel Prize t... Read more
