Studying mutant peptides may help detect weaknesses in tumor cells
Researchers from MIPT, the Institute of Biomedical Chemistry, the Institute for Energy Problems of Chemical Physics, and the Research Institute of Physico-Chemical Medicine have presented an algorithm...
View ArticleColumbia researchers find way to reawaken potent cancer-fighting molecule in...
A potent cancer-fighting molecule in our cells can be reawakened by reducing levels of a protein - called SET - that's often found in excess in cancer cells, a new study from Columbia University's...
View ArticleBreakthrough Award supports research on role of chronic stress in breast...
Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey resident research member Wenwei Hu, PhD, has received a $596,250 Breakthrough Award from the U.S. Department of Defense through its Breast Cancer Research Program...
View ArticleSupercomputer simulations of p53 protein could boost future anti-cancer drug...
Even though it's almost impossible to see, computational biophysicist Rommie Amaro is using the Stampede supercomputer at the Texas Advanced Computing Center at The University of Texas at Austin to...
View ArticleSMU virologist receives NCI grant to advance research into how certain...
SMU virologist and cancer researcher Robert L. Harrod has been awarded a $436,500 grant from the National Cancer Institute to further his lab's research into how certain viruses cause cancers in humans.
View ArticleFood restriction may be potential treatment strategy for certain types of...
Could limiting food intake be a valid treatment strategy for certain types of cancers? New research in The FASEB Journal suggests "maybe."
View ArticleResearchers uncover new prognostic marker and possible therapeutic target for...
Researchers of the Sarcoma research group of the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute, led by Dr. Òscar Martínez-Tirado, have first described the methylation profile of Ewing's sarcoma, a cancer of...
View ArticleScientists discover truncated p53 proteins that promote cancer growth and...
Discovered in the 1970s, tumor suppressors are among the most important proteins in the body.
View ArticleBreast cancer patient finds new hope with potentially revolutionary treatment
City of Hope patient Susan Young has had a remarkable response to a potentially revolutionary new treatment, a combination of the p53 cancer vaccine and a drug that blocks a specific cancer-aiding...
View ArticleResearchers find accumulation of tumor suppressor in liver after food withdrawal
Tumor suppressors stop healthy cells from becoming cancerous. Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Medical University of Graz and the German Institute of Human Nutrition in...
View ArticleUCM scientists design biosensor capable of detecting cancer autoantibodies at...
Before a malignant tumor is developed, the immune system tries to fight against proteins that are altered during their formation, producing certain cancer antibodies.
View ArticleResearcher awarded $1.8 million grant to explore how chronic stress impacts...
A five-year, $1.8 million grant (R01CA203965) from the National Cancer Institute awarded to Rutgers Cancer Institute of New Jersey resident research member Wenwei Hu, PhD, will support research to...
View ArticleScientists find link between p53 gene in African American women and breast...
Scientists at The Wistar Institute in collaboration with Roswell Park Cancer Institute found a significant association between a rare genetic variant of the p53 gene present in African American women...
View ArticleResearchers aim to examine therapeutic effect of iPS-ML producing...
All causes of the most common form of liver cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma, are not yet known, but the risk of getting it is increased by hepatitis B or C, cirrhosis, obesity, diabetes, a buildup of...
View ArticleFindings could lead to new treatments for people who overdose on popular pain...
Results from a new study show that after an acetaminophen overdose the p53 protein plays a key role in preventing the progression of liver damage and signaling the liver to repair itself.
View ArticleTACC's supercomputers assist in discovery of new, better chemotherapy drugs
Surgery and radiation remove, kill, or damage cancer cells in a certain area. But chemotherapy -- which uses medicines or drugs to treat cancer -- can work throughout the whole body, killing cancer...
View ArticleScientists discover truncated p53 proteins that promote cancer growth and...
Discovered in the 1970s, tumor suppressors are among the most important proteins in the body.
View ArticleBreast cancer patient finds new hope with potentially revolutionary treatment
City of Hope patient Susan Young has had a remarkable response to a potentially revolutionary new treatment, a combination of the p53 cancer vaccine and a drug that blocks a specific cancer-aiding...
View ArticleResearchers find accumulation of tumor suppressor in liver after food withdrawal
Tumor suppressors stop healthy cells from becoming cancerous. Researchers from Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin, the Medical University of Graz and the German Institute of Human Nutrition in...
View ArticleUCM scientists design biosensor capable of detecting cancer autoantibodies at...
Before a malignant tumor is developed, the immune system tries to fight against proteins that are altered during their formation, producing certain cancer antibodies.
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