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Researchers unveil a novel strategy to combat melanoma brain metastases

Universidad Miguel Hernandez de Elche
Peer-Reviewed Publication

This study reveals the key role of microglia, brain’s immune cells, in brain metastases progression and identifies a strategy to manipulate them to promote antitumor responses.

This finding, published in Cancer Cell, could enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy in patients with brain metastases.

A new study reveals the key role of microglia, brain’s immune cells, in brain metastases progression and identifies a strategy to manipulate them to promote antitumor responses. This finding, published in Cancer Cell, could enhance the effectiveness of immunotherapy in patients with brain metastases.

Journal: Cancer Cell
Funder: Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Agencia Estatal de Investigación, Instituto de Salud Carlos III, FERO Foundation, Melanoma Research Alliance, Generalitat Valenciana, Generalitat Valenciana, Generalitat Valenciana, Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Agencia Estatal de Investigación

Researchers discover anti-cancer potential of immune modulator's short form

Chinese Academy of Sciences Headquarters
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Prof. MENG Guangxun's team from the Shanghai Institute of Immunity and Infection of the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and collaborators, have revealed a novel mechanism whereby a short form of IL-18, generated by caspase-3 cleavage in tumor cells, activates natural killer (NK) cells to suppress tumor growth, offering new therapeutic opportunities.

Journal: Nature Immunology

Personalized cancer treatment using 3D bioprinting technology

Pohang University of Science & Technology (POSTECH)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

POSTECH and The Jackson Laboratory, Developing an In Vitro Platform to Evaluate and Predict Drug Responses in Gastric Cancer Patients.

Journal: Advanced Science

Pancreatic cancer immune map provides clues for precision treatment targeting

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Pancreatic cancer patients may benefit from future precision treatments as a new study shows how some tumours may potentially be more susceptible to macrophage-based therapies, and clues behind why these tumours don't respond to existing immunotherapieis in a new Nature Communications paper.

Journal: Nature Communications

Gene modification could improve cancer treatment's success rate

Nagoya University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A research team from Nagoya University Graduate School of Medicine has made a major discovery on how the CUL5 gene affects CAR-T cell therapy, an advanced cancer therapy. The study, published in Nature Communications, reveals that reducing the activity of the CUL5 gene helps CAR-T cells fight cancer more effectively. These findings could improve immunotherapy for patients with aggressive cancers such as leukemia.

Journal: Nature Communications

Building better biomaterials for cancer treatments

Virginia Tech
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Modifying the physical characteristics of microscopic biomaterials to interact seamlessly with the body’s tissues could unlock safer and more effective cancer treatments, according to Virginia Tech researchers at the Fralin Biomedical Research Institute at VTC.

Journal: Journal of Controlled Release
Funder: Red Gates Foundation

Warding off superbugs with a pinch of turmeric

Texas A&M University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The researchers showed that when curcumin is intentionally given to bacteria as food and then activated by light, it can trigger deleterious reactions within these microbes, eventually killing them. This process, they demonstrated, reduces the number of antibiotic-resistant strains and renders conventional antibiotics effective again.

Journal: Scientific Reports
Funder: Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas, Governor’s University Research Initiative, Air Force Office of Scientific Research, NIH/National Institutes of Health

Cancer diagnoses and deaths are declining in Appalachia but remain significantly higher compared to other US regions

American College of Surgeons
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Fewer people than before are being diagnosed with and dying from cancer in Appalachia, but cancer incidence and death rates remain substantially higher in the region compared to elsewhere in the U.S.

Journal: Journal of the American College of Surgeons

University of Houston researcher awarded $3.2 million to fight childhood cancer at the cellular level

University of Houston
Grant and Award Announcement

A $3.2 million grant from the National Institutes of Health is empowering University of Houston researchers to tackle Rhabdomyosarcoma, a malignant soft tissue sarcoma that has a higher incidence in young children.

Fear of breast cancer recurrence: Impact and coping with being in a dark place

Regenstrief Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study of breast cancer survivors has found this psychosocial challenge impacts almost every important domain of their lives – the emotional, behavioral, cognitive, relational and professional. A larger number of domains was affected, and they were affected more frequently in those with greater fear of recurrence. The majority of study participants indicated that they sought senses of purpose, belonging, control and connection with others.

Journal: Supportive Care in Cancer
Funder: NIH/National Cancer Institute, Walther Cancer Foundation