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TSET HPRC researcher receives federal grant to help low-income Oklahomans quit smoking

OKLAHOMA CITY -Darla Kendzor, Ph.D., co-director of the TSET Health Promotion Research Center, was recently awarded a 5-year, $3.1 million grant from the...

Study aims to improve tobacco treatment delivery for people with HIV

MUSC Hollings Cancer Center researchers to evaluate impact of proactive opt-out approach to smoking cessation interventions Researchers at MUSC Hollings Cancer Center have...

Engineering T cells to attack cancer broadly

A new approach to immunotherapy arrests solid tumor growth for a variety of cancers and squashes the spread of cancer to other tissues,...

Cancer cells soften as they metastasize, study suggests

When cancer cells metastasize, they often travel in the bloodstream to a remote tissue or organ, where they then escape by...

COVID-19 may become nanomedicine’s finest hour yet

While we are not suggesting that nanotechnology-based vaccines are the panacea for eliminating all viruses, whether it be Ebola or the seasonal flu,...

New mechanism by which senescent cells turn on genes encoding for tumor-regulating factors

PHILADELPHIA — (April 1, 2021 — Scientists at The Wistar Institute identified a new mechanism of transcriptional control of cellular senescence that drives...

Stem cell transplants prevent relapses of most common childhood cancer

Children and young adults who receive CAR T-cell therapy for the most common childhood cancer – acute lymphoblastic leukemia – suffer remarkably...

Chemo for glioblastoma may work better in morning than evening

Study indicates timing of chemotherapy could improve treatment for deadly brain cancer An aggressive type of brain cancer, glioblastoma has no cure. Patients...

New sequencing approach finds triple-negative breast cancers continue accumulating genetic changes during tumor growth

Novel technique for single-cell single-molecule DNA sequencing enables faster, deeper study of chromosome evolution with possible clinical and research implications HOUSTON ? Overcoming...

LSU Veterinary School receives $11M COBRE grant for a pre-clinical cancer research center

The Louisiana State University School of Veterinary Medicine, or LSU SVM, has received an $11 million grant to establish a Center of Biomedical...

Maintaining body weight won’t save colorectal cancer survivors

Stable body weight may hide loss of muscle, 40 percent higher risk of premature death Colorectal cancer survivors who maintained a stable body...

Starving tumors by blocking glutamine uptake

LA JOLLA, CALIF. – March 19, 2021 – Scientists at Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery Institute have identified a drug candidate that blocks...

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