oncology
Ordinary skin cells turned into brain tumor predators
Posted in Medicine on 25th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
Glioblastomas are the most common and fatal form of brain cancer, carrying a survival rate beyond two years of just 30 percent.
Why scientists are shocked by the results of the immunotherapy cancer treatment trial
Posted in Science on 18th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
It's not perfect, but it could make immunotherapy a 'pillar' of cancer treatment, researcher says.
Cancer researchers claim 'extraordinary results' using T-cell therapy
Posted in Medicine on 16th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
More than half of terminally ill blood cancer patients experienced complete remission in early clinical trials.
New nanotechnology can detect the biomarkers of cancer and other diseases
Posted in Hardware on 14th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
"We envision this as a potential first-line, noninvasive diagnostic to detect anything from cancer to the Ebola virus"
Researchers find a genomic signature shared by 5 types of cancer
Posted in Medicine on 6th Feb, 2016
by Alex Muller
"These findings could be an important step in developing a blood test to identify early cancers."