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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 6-Jul-2025 23:11 ET (7-Jul-2025 03:11 GMT/UTC)

Rice-led study finds focused ultrasound therapy improves cancer treatment

Rice University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Combining an existing small-molecule protein therapy called tumor necrosis factor related apoptosis-inducing ligand with focused ultrasound can significantly reduce tumor size and burden in prostate cancer models, according to a new study published in Advanced Science by researchers at Rice and Vanderbilt.

Journal: Advanced Science

Rare side effect of cancer immunotherapy

Universität Leipzig
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have discovered and analysed a rare but serious side effect of an innovative form of blood cancer therapy. The scientists from the University of Leipzig Medical Center, the Fraunhofer Institute for Cell Therapy and Immunology (IZI) and the University Hospital of Cologne have published their findings in the high-impact journal Nature Medicine.

Journal: Nature Medicine

Comprehensive strategies to address radiation-induced restrictive cardiomyopathy

Compuscript Ltd
Peer-Reviewed Publication

https://www.scienceopen.com/hosted-document?doi=10.15212/CVIA.2024.0058

Announcing a new article publication for Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications journal. Radiation-induced cardiomyopathy has become a significant clinical challenge with the increased use of thoracic radiation therapy.

Journal: Cardiovascular Innovations and Applications

Butterfly wings inspire new imaging technique for cancer diagnosis

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Using the microscopic structures found on the wings of the Morpho butterfly, researchers have developed a simple and inexpensive way to analyze cancer biopsy samples that could make cancer diagnosis faster, more accurate and more accessible worldwide.

Journal: Advanced Materials
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, Arnold and Mabel Beckman Foundation, American Association of University Women, U.S. National Science Foundation

Sylvester Cancer Tip Sheet for February, 2025

University of Miami Miller School of Medicine
Reports and Proceedings

Protecting firefighters from occupational cancer risks, electric vehicle fires associated with higher cancer risks, connecting patients directly with pathologists to explain complex test results, using gene editing to battle mitochondrial diseases, and a profile of a brain cancer researcher are all in this month’s tip sheet from Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center.

New Ebola virus research boosts pandemic preparedness

La Jolla Institute for Immunology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

"This antibody offers the best protection in primates, at the lowest dose yet seen for any single antibody."

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, UK Medical Research Council, European Research Council, Max Planck Society

Experts publish action plan to address appendiceal cancer enigmas

Vanderbilt University Medical Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The recommendations published in Nature Reviews Cancer are the result of a concerted focus by the Appendix Cancer Pseudomyxoma Peritonei (ACPMP) Research Foundation to better understand the disease that afflicts an estimated 3,000 new patients across all age groups each year. The incidence could be higher because of the challenges accurately diagnosing the disease and identifying the tumor type, the researchers noted.

Journal: Nature Reviews Cancer
Funder: ACPMP Research Foundation, Vanderbilt-Ingram Cancer Center, NIH/National Cancer Institute

Scientists identify epigenetic key that ‘opens’ door to colon cancer

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A gene called high mobility group A1 (HMGA1) may be the key that opens the door to the development of colon cancer, according to research led by investigators from the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center, Johns Hopkins Department of Medicine, Johns Hopkins Department of Pathology and the Johns Hopkins Institute for Cell Engineering.

Journal: Journal of Clinical Investigation
Funder: National Institutes of Health, Maryland Stem Cell Research Fund, National Cancer Center

Digging into a decades-old hepatitis B mystery suggests a new potential treatment

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In their effort to answer a decades-old biological question about how the hepatitis B virus (HBV) is able to establish infection of liver cells, research led by Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK), Weill Cornell Medicine, and The Rockefeller University identified a vulnerability that opens the door to new treatments.

Journal: Cell
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. National Science Foundation

Lancet article details drug’s lack of benefit for head and neck cancer

University of Oklahoma
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A physician-scientist at the University of Oklahoma is part of an international effort seeking new options for patients with head and neck cancer who cannot receive the standard chemotherapy drug cisplatin. Because cisplatin can damage the kidneys and cochlea, patients who have kidney problems or hearing loss are usually not candidates to take the drug.

Journal: The Lancet