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Creating the ‘google earth’ of tumours
We caught up with Dr Josephine Bunch to find out how NPL are using the Cancer Research Grand Challenge funding & novel imaging techniques to map cancer tumours...
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New gene discovered drives cancer drug resistance
Scientists in Salford, UK, have identified a gene which is ‘revving the engine of cancer’ against the world’s most common breast cancer drug.
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Stem cell ‘marking’ study offers alternative hypothesis of cancer metastasis
Stem cells are among the most energetically activated, migratory and proliferative sub-populations of tumour cells, according to observations by scholars at the Biomedical Research Centre at the University of Salford.
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How breast cancer screening could be better and less painful
10 October 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Flexible plates therefore enable better image quality without increased compression force. One can also reduce the compression force and the pain...
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Intercontinental consortium granted €5.1 million to develop breast cancer imaging devices
15 September 2016 | By Niamh Louise Marriott, Digital Content Producer
Grants of more than €5 million, predominantly from the EU, will be used to develop a new imaging device for the diagnosis of breast cancer...
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GlyRS identified as a possible new breast cancer drug target
27 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have identified a protein, called GlyRS, that launches cancer growth and appears to contribute to higher mortality in breast cancer patients...
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JQ1 found to alter how breast cancer cells respond to hypoxia
13 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Results from a study showed that JQ1 slowed tumour growth and limited the number of blood vessels that were produced...
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Bending HER2 receptors to kill off invasive breast cancer
3 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have now discovered an effective solution to switch off all signals emanating from HER2 in breast cancer cells at the same time...
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Fasnall doubles survival time in mice with HER2-positive breast cancer
2 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Fasnall appears to impede a process that fuels breast cancer in mice, a discovery that could have implications in the treatment of a host of cancers...
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Proteogenomic breast cancer study provides insight into potential therapeutic targets
26 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have completed the first large-scale proteogenomic study of breast cancer, linking DNA mutations to protein signalling...
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Scientists prevent breast cancer cells entering bone marrow
25 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have identified a molecular key that breast cancer cells use to invade bone marrow in mice, where they may be protected from therapies...
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Breast cancer drug suppresses dangerous brain seizures
13 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists also found that inhibiting oestrogen synthesis just after seizure onset strongly suppressed seizures in both sexes...
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Identifying targets in MYC-driven triple-negative breast cancer
12 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Dr Andrei Goga of UC San Francisco has taken a multi-faceted approach to identifying new therapeutic targets in MYC-driven triple-negative breast cancers...
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Pfizer awards more than $1 million to fund metastatic breast cancer research
11 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Pfizer has awarded a total of more than $1 million in funding to five leading advocacy organisations to support metastatic breast cancer scientific research...
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Targaprimir-96 successfully targets breast cancer RNA
10 May 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Scientists have designed a drug candidate, Targaprimir-96, that decreases the growth of tumour cells in animal models of triple negative breast cancer...
