cancer
How Cancer Cells Launch A Counterstrike Against BET Inhibitors
Cancer cells that develop resistance to BET inhibitors do so by recruiting the help of leukemia stem cells.
Culturing Cancer Cells For Personalized Treatments
Researchers have boosted the success rate of culturing circulating tumor cells from blood samples to 60 percent, paving the way for personalized treatments.
Meta-Analysis Reveals TCM’s Benefit To Cancer Patients
A systematic review of nearly 24,000 studies has found that traditional Chinese medicine can benefit cancer patients.
Stop Copper Trafficking, Stop Cancer
Instead of reducing blood copper levels, drugs that target copper transporters could be a safer way to treat cancer.
ASLAN & Hyundai Pharm Collaborate To Develop Cancer Drug
The two companies will conduct clinical trials to assess varlitinib in the treatment of aggressive bile duct cancer, a disease prevalent in South Korea.
Using NGS To Fish Out Asian Specific Cancer Mutations
Singapore General Hospital has entered a collaboration with Thermo Fisher Scientific to perform next-generation sequencing of retrospective samples from cancer patients of Asian ancestry.
The Red Meat And Smoking Equivalency
Is eating processed meat really as dangerous as smoking? Our columnist, Annabel Tan, takes a closer look at the statement issued by WHO.
A Fail-Safe Suicide Switch For iPSC Cancer Therapy
By introducing the suicide gene iCaspase-9 into induced pluripotent stem cells, scientists are now able to prevent the formation of tumors should the cells go rogue.
Cancer Database Marries Genetic & Molecular Data
Researchers have developed a database that integrates cancer genes and markers with experimental data.
