news Rapid screening technique identifies potential new pancreatic cancer target 24 June 2016 | By Victoria White, Digital Content Producer The method, called Patient-Based in Vivo Lethality to Optimise Treatment (PILOT), allows for the analysis of hundreds of tumour genes using only a few mice...
news MD Anderson and AbbVie join forces to fight cancer 26 January 2016 | By Victoria White The three-year collaboration agreement provides a framework for MD Anderson and AbbVie to efficiently choose and carry out preclinical and clinical studies evaluating new ideas in immuno-oncology...
news Study identifies MDSCs as possible prostate cancer target 22 December 2015 | By Victoria White MDSCs are immune cells that “expand” when faced with cancer, inflammation or infections, giving them the unique ability to suppress the body’s T-cell response to disease...
news Boehringer Ingelheim and MD Anderson in pancreatic cancer collaboration 2 December 2015 | By Victoria White Boehringer Ingelheim and The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre are to focus on developing new medicines for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma...
news New collaboration to research Probody-enabled CAR-NK cell therapies 6 November 2015 | By Victoria White ProCAR-NK cell therapies will be created against targets for which safety and toxicity have traditionally been limiting factors for CAR cell therapies...
news MD Anderson’s expands its Moon Shots Programme 30 October 2015 | By Victoria White MD Anderson's Moon Shots Programme is an unprecedented effort and novel organisational model designed to more rapidly convert scientific discoveries into life-saving advances...
news Immatics US launched to develop adoptive cellular therapies 26 August 2015 | By Victoria White Immatics US is a new company aimed at becoming a global leader in adoptive cellular therapies (ACT) for the treatment of a range of tumour types...
news Scientists mimic realistic tumour conditions 6 August 2015 | By Victoria White Researchers placed cancer cells in a three-dimensional scaffold and subjected them to the forces that push, pull and continually flow through the body...
news Cancer can be caused by protein imbalances within cells 27 July 2015 | By Victoria White Genetic aberrations have been seen as the main cause of almost all cancer but new research shows cancer can be caused solely by protein imbalances...
news TLR4 has opposing roles in breast cancer development 11 June 2015 | By Victoria White Countering previously held beliefs, researchers have discovered that inhibiting TLR4 may not be a wise treatment strategy in all cancers...