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Radical new treatment system lights up cancer therapy
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Radical new treatment system lights up cancer therapy

INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO IMAGE: RESEARCHERS FROM THE INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO HAVE DEVELOPED A STREAMLINED PHOTO-UNCAGING SYSTEM FOR PHOTODYNAMIC CANCER THERAPY, USING A PULSE OF LIGHT FOR TUMOR-SPECIFIC ACTIVATION OF A CANCER-FIGHTING AGENT CREDIT: INSTITUTE OF INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE, THE UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO Tokyo, Japan – One...

Getting rid of unwanted transformed cells: Possible new directions in cancer therapy
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Getting rid of unwanted transformed cells: Possible new directions in cancer therapy

TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE VIDEO: SCIENTISTS ELUCIDATE THE REGULATORY MECHANISMS UNDERLYING “AUTOPHAGY” MEDIATED COMPETITIVE ELIMINATION OF CANCER CELLS. CREDIT: TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE The maintenance of a healthy cell population is a dynamic process, whereby unhealthy cells are eliminated by a defense mechanism called “cell competition”. This process is crucial as unhealthy cells or cells...

6 lupus patients effectively cured by a cancer therapy, and doctors say they are ‘blown away’
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6 lupus patients effectively cured by a cancer therapy, and doctors say they are ‘blown away’

Hilary Brueck Blood samples taken from a patient receiving CAR-T immunotherapy. AP Photo/Elaine Thompson A half dozen patients in Germany have been functionally cured of lupus — for now, at least. Their doctors used a blood-engineering technique that’s usually reserved for fighting aggressive cancers (CAR-T). It’s unlikely that such a technique could become widespread for lupus-sufferers,...

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Single-Cell Analysis Reveals Clues About Promising Cancer Therapy

A type of cancer treatment known as CAR T therapy has shown great promise for blood cancer treatments in the last decade, but too often, patients relapse within a short time. Now, a team of researchers has uncovered some critical clues about why – potentially leading to treatments to prevent these relapses.  CAR T therapy involves isolating...

Researchers determine first crystal structure of LAG3 protein; findings could yield better cancer therapy approaches
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Researchers determine first crystal structure of LAG3 protein; findings could yield better cancer therapy approaches

by H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute LAG3 Crystal Structure. Credit: Moffitt Cancer Center Immune checkpoint inhibitors have revolutionized cancer care. The therapy works by preventing tumors from shutting down the immune response, which in turn allows T cells to kill cancer cells. Established checkpoint inhibitors target the proteins PD-1 and CTLA-4 and...

‘Goldilocks’ treatment window could lead to cancer therapy without harmful side effects
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‘Goldilocks’ treatment window could lead to cancer therapy without harmful side effects

by Walter and Eliza Hall Institute of Medical Research Learning the rules for programming self-associating membrane proteins (MPs). (a) Rosetta fold, dock, and design uses backbone fragments from natural MPs to construct symmetric, de novo architectures and an MP energy function (Weinstein et al., 2019) to optimize the amino acid sequence. (b) Round 1 designs...

Existing cancer therapy in narrow use shows significant activity against other cancers
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Existing cancer therapy in narrow use shows significant activity against other cancers

by  University Hospitals Cleveland Medical Center Reduced tumor sizes by FDG-PET imaging reflected in the red signal next to yellow arrows, in 6 mice receiving ivosidenib (AG-120) compared to control mice without drug. Credit: University Hospitals A drug used to target IDH1 mutations in select cancers also appears to inhibit the wild-type form of the enzyme,...

Scientists develop a new platform technology for personalized cancer therapy
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Scientists develop a new platform technology for personalized cancer therapy

by Institute for Basic Science Figure 1. Cancer cells tend to accumulate many mutations during their growth. These include single base substitutions, small insertion/deletions (InDel), and large chromosomal changes. Researchers made CRISPR-Cas9 reagents targeting tumor-specific InDel mutations that can induce numerous double-strand breaks in the DNA of cancer cells, effectively killing them. Because normal cells...

New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types without side effects
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New cancer therapy holds potential to switch off major cancer types without side effects

by Liz Fuller-Wright,  Princeton University In mice and in human tissue, a new compound discovered by Yibin Kang, seen here in his lab in 2017, disables a key gene that’s implicated in breast, prostate, liver, lung, colon and other cancers. Credit: Denise Applewhite, Office of Communications Imagine you could cure cancer by targeting one tiny gene....

Gold-based cancer therapy could face competition from other substances
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Gold-based cancer therapy could face competition from other substances

by  Karolinska Institutet Graphical abstract. Credit: DOI: 10.1016/j.redox.2021.102184 The gold complex auranofin has traditionally been used for treating rheumatism but is also being evaluated as a treatment for certain forms of cancer. Researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden now show that other molecules that inhibit the same biological system have a more specific effect than auranofin...