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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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Cancer cells ‘persuade’ healthy cells to help disease grow
14 April 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer
Cancer cells use a mutant gene to coerce neighbouring healthy tissue into helping with the disease’s growth and spread, a major new study reports...
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Researchers make ‘groundbreaking’ cancer immunotherapy discovery
4 March 2016 | By Victoria White
Researchers have found the tools necessary to give immunotherapy the precision guidance that patients with cancer so desperately need...
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canSAR: a portal to Big Data for drug discovery
9 February 2016 | By Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani and Elizabeth Coker, The Institute of Cancer Research, London
Dr Bissan Al-Lazikani and Elizabeth Coker discuss canSAR: the first public domain example of Big Data for drug discovery...
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Asterias transfers AST-VAC2 manufacturing processes to Cancer Research UK
21 January 2016 | By Victoria White
AST-VAC2 is an innovative immunotherapy product that contains mature dendritic cells derived from pluripotent stem cells...
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CanSAR cancer drug discovery database goes 3D
4 January 2016 | By Victoria White
The updated canSAR database will allow scientists working in the UK and across the globe to design new cancer treatments more effectively...
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Asterias collaborates with Cell Therapy Catapult to scale production of AST-VAC2
13 October 2015 | By Victoria White
AST-VAC2 is an immunotherapy product that contains mature dendritic cells derived from pluripotent stem cells...
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Cancer Research UK launches the Grand Challenge to help beat cancer
12 October 2015 | By Victoria White
International scientists across all disciplines are invited to come up with solutions to seven challenges which cover some of the most important unanswered questions in cancer research...
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Cancer Research UK invests £15m to develop new cancer treatments
7 October 2015 | By Victoria White
The Cancer Research UK Centres Network Accelerator Award provides infrastructure support to research centres in order to encourage collaboration between different organisations and boost ‘bench to bedside’ science...
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Cancer stopped in its tracks by reprogrammed fibroblasts
1 October 2015 | By Victoria White
If further studies show this route can benefit patients, it could help crack one of the toughest challenges in cancer research – how to stop tumours spreading...
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Cancer Research UK and MedImmune launch biotherapeutics research centre
14 September 2015 | By Victoria White
The new laboratory, opened in Cambridge, will focus on the discovery and development of novel biologic cancer treatments and diagnostics...
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Aspirin could boost cancer immunotherapy
4 September 2015 | By Victoria White
Researchers have shown that combining immunotherapy with aspirin or other COX inhibitors substantially slowed bowel and melanoma skin cancer growth in mice...
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Cancer Research UK funding preclinical study of Imprime PGG
18 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Cancer Research UK will fund preclinical research evaluating the efficacy of Imprime PGG in combination with monoclonal antibody (MAb) therapies...
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Neuroblastoma cells drain immune system’s batteries
3 August 2015 | By Victoria White
Cancer cells in neuroblastoma contain a molecule that breaks down a key energy source for immune cells, leaving them too drained to fight the disease...
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New ‘TripAdvisor’ site to address use of substandard chemical probes
22 July 2015 | By Victoria White
An international panel of leading scientists has launched a new TripAdvisor-style website aimed at helping researchers choose better-quality chemical probes...