by Julia Evangelou Strait, Washington University School of Medicine A study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis suggests a strategy for preventing a chronic, slow-growing type of blood cancer from progressing to an aggressive form of leukemia. Shown is bone marrow from a mouse treated with a compound that blocks DUSP6, a key...
An analysis of patient data from across Michigan found scores from the Decipher Biopsy test independently aligned with outcomes. After a biopsy comes back positive for prostate cancer, patients and their doctors are often left with a choice between taking a watch-and-wait approach, known as active surveillance, or proceeding with surgery or radiation. And identifying...
by Larner College of Medicine at the University of Vermont Image of a triple negative breast cancer cell undergoing abnormal division after inhibition of KIF18A (red = microtubules; green = chromosomes; yellow = spindle poles). Credit: Cindy Fonseca, M.S., Stumpff Lab, UVM Larner College of Medicine Unravelling the unique characteristics of cancer cells and finding...
