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Engineering T Cells To Attack Cancer Broadly

In the clinic, this approach would involve extracting the patient's own T cells from tumor samples, genetically engineering them to express MDA-7/IL-24, growing millions of copies of the cells in the lab and finally transplanting them back into the patient.

Positive Thinking Is Powerful During And After Cancer Treatment

“I can’t say for certain whether my optimism has kept me going, but it has taught me that good things can come from a bad situation. I’ve been lucky before. I could be again.”

Cancer Research 'could Be Delayed By Two Years' Due To Coronavirus Pandemic

“We need as much support as possible to ensure that our research can make up lost ground in finding the new treatments that will make a difference for patients. Cancer won’t wait.”

New Genetic Target For Blood Cancer Treatment

Targeting a pathway that is essential for the survival of certain types of acute myeloid leukaemia could provide a new therapy avenue for patients, the latest research has found.

Bladder Cancer Research Enters A Renaissance Period

After a long period of stagnation and inertia, the bladder cancer space is alive and full of innovation and activation.

How UK Researchers Commercialised CD25 As An Immunotherapy Drug Target

A moment the team had been dreaming of – they found their newly designed antibody caused a stronger immune response against the cells it bound to, which in turn caused tumours to shrink. “That was kind of the eureka!”

Stressed Out, The Cancer Cells That Survive Chemotherapy, But At A Cost

A group of Cancer Research UK-funded scientists are beginning to discover new vulnerabilities in cancer cells, which emerge when they enter 'survival mode'

Interview With The VeChain Blockchain Team

A blockchain allows a business operation that is completely secure and transparent from end-to-end. With it, every data relevant to each transaction can be safely stored and accessed by anyone since it is a distributed database.

Interview With The Theta Blockchain Team

The Theta blockchain is a decentralized video content delivery network and cryptocurrency. This innovative platform provides both technical and economic solutions to the problems facing the streaming sector.

Cancer Drug Lessens The Toxicity Of A Protein From COVID-19 Virus

Discovery opens door to testing more effective drugs for treating COVID-19 patients

Lung Cancer Resistance: The Key Is Glucose

The ability of TANs to metabolize glucose efficiently seems to bestow the tumor with the ability to resist treatment, at least in lung cancer.

New Nanotech Gives Boost To Detection Of Cancer And Disease

Nanoparticle "mimics" of peroxidase have been extensively developed over the past 10 years, but none have achieved the reaction efficiency of the nanoparticles developed by Xia and his team.