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Cell surface protein may offer target in treating childhood cancers

12 September 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Immunotherapy drug candidate could be potent weapon against neuroblastoma and other paediatric malignancies...

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Mechanism identified to be responsible for the growth of epithelial tumours

11 September 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Researchers reveal the capacity of epithelial-derived tumours to grow in the absence of a microenvironment...

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DNA sequencing could open up new drug indications for rare cancers

8 September 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A network of hospitals have systematically collected biopsies from metastatic cancer patients in order to create a global database...

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Zika virus kills brain cancer stem cells

5 September 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

New research shows that the Zika virus kills brain cancer stem cells...

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Cell culture system could offer cancer breakthrough

31 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A new cell culture system that provides a tool for preclinical cancer drug development and screening has been developed...

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Nanoparticles give disease-fighting properties to cells

30 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A new biomedical tool has been developed using nanoparticles that deliver transient gene changes to targeted cells...

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Novel system developed to improve cancer detection

24 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have developed a proof-of-concept nano-system that dramatically improves the visualisation of tumours...

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Non-coding RNA encourages cancer growth and metastasis

22 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have deduced how an alternative form of RNA encourages tumours to spread.

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GIST tumours linked to NF1 mutations

21 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Researchers have determined that a specific region of the duodenal-jejunal flexure, shows a high frequency of gastrointestinal stromal tumours with mutations of the NF1 gene...

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Two-step process leads to cell immortalisation and cancer

18 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

New research, has studied the immortalisation process using genome-engineered cells...

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Tumours detected with sugar molecules

15 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Scientists have synthesised a complex sugar structure that specifically binds to the tumour protein Galectin-1...

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From cancer evolution to personalised therapies

14 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A research team have studied how alterations in a tumour depend on each other and how these dependencies determine cancer evolution...

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Blood test to transform the way cancer is monitored and treated

14 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

Scientists have described a new type of test that can detect genetic mutations in minute amounts of DNA...

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Prospects identified for immunotherapy treatments

9 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A report published has identified the prospects of immunotherapy treatments...

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Bioprinted veins reveal new drug diffusion details

4 August 2017 | By Dr Zara Kassam (Drug Target Review)

A scientific collaboration has developed vascularised 3-D bioprinted liver tissue constructs, providing more precise drug toxicity testing...

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