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A Rice University-led multi-institutional research collaboration has won an award of up to $18 million over five years from the Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health (ARPA-H) to develop and validate a new system for improving tumor removal accuracy for two types of cancer: breast,

Offering women further screening opportunities when they visit healthcare providers for breast cancer screening may significantly increase their participation and enable early diagnosis of other cancers, per clinical trial of more than 27,000 in Denmark Credit: PDPics, Pixabay (CC0, https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/) Offering women further screening opportunities

President Joe Biden and First Lady Jill Biden will visit Tulane University today to announce that the university will be awarded up to almost $23 million to create an imaging system that will give doctors the ability to scan a tumor during surgery and determine within minutes

The Institute of Intelligent Medical Research (IIMR) of BGI Genomics, in collaboration with Sweden’s Uppsala University, has published the largest multi-omics study of colorectal cancer (CRC) to date. The study aimed to understand the functional and prognostic impact of cancer-causing somatic mutations, revealing new genetic

New research from Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) found patients with non-small cell lung cancer brain metastases may benefit from up-front stereotactic radiosurgery; identified a connection between antibiotic use and autoimmune diseases; and uncovered a previously unknown structural role for messenger RNAs in the

In the past two decades, immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) have revolutionized cancer treatment, showing promising results against various solid tumors. This study reviews recent developments in ICIs, focusing on new targets like T cell immunoreceptor with Ig and ITIM domains (TIGIT), T cell immunoglobulin and

OAK BROOK, Ill. – A new study of more than 10,000 non-smoking adults found that solid lung nodules were present in a considerable portion of study participants. Non-smokers are traditionally thought to be at low risk for lung nodules and lung cancer. The results of

“Here we discuss the diverse forms of BRAF alterations found in human cancers and the strategies to inhibit them in patients harboring cancers of distinct origins.” Credit: 2024 Toye et al. “Here we discuss the diverse forms of BRAF alterations found in human cancers and

Huntsman Cancer Institute and the University of Utah (the U) are proud to announce the induction of two physician-scientists, Heloisa Soares, MD, PhD, and Skyler Johnson, MD, as members of The Society of Huntsman Translational Scholars. Credit: Huntsman Cancer Institute Huntsman Cancer Institute and the

By Urbi Mukhopadhyay, Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL Grenoble Credit: Urbi Mukhopadhyay/EMBL, Isabel Romero Calvo/EMBL By Urbi Mukhopadhyay, Postdoctoral Fellow, EMBL Grenoble Human proteins undergo a variety of chemical modifications following their synthesis. These modifications regulate their structure, function, and stability. Researchers from the Bhogaraju Group at