Cancer
Young researchers engineer a prospective life-saving bacterium – a possible metastatasis prevention probiotic
26.07.2019
A group of students take their baptism in research: they develop a proof of concept for a probiotic to prevent cancer metastasisThe young researchers engineer a bacteria to take up and consume long-chain fatty acids, a major risk factor for metastasisFurther development could eventually have this idea give the leap into a real application saving […]
Treatment of metastatic breast cancer
09.02.2018
A study published in the Lancet Oncology by an international team led by Prof Rob E. Coleman (University of Sheffield) and Prof Roger R. Gomis (IRB Barcelona) identifies the effect of MAF amplification on the outcome of treatment with adjuvant zoledronic acid in early breast cancer. This new knowledge may be key to the early […]
‘Capicua’ gene plays a key role in one of the most common types of childhood tumours, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
06.02.2018
Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) have discovered a genetic alteration that is directly involved in at least 10% of cases of one of the most common cancers in children, T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. In a paper published in Genes and Development, the scientists explain how the mice in which a specific […]