A plant virus that infects legumes, called cowpea mosaic virus, has an extraordinary power that you may not have known about: when injected into a tumor, it triggers the immune system to treat cancer—even metastatic cancer prevents it from recurring. For the past seven years, researchers at the University of California San Diego and Dartmouth College...
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Israeli researchers find a new, natural weapon for fighting cancer
By JERUSALEM POST STAFF Astudy conducted at Israel’s Weizmann Institute of Science lays the foundation toward a possible cancer breakthrough in the form of immunotherapy that will exploit a unique immune system weapon in the battle against cancer: naturally produced antibodies. Antibodies are proteins that neutralize specific threats. Other recent studies have found that naturally...
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Diabetes drug shows potential in fighting cancer
MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL BOSTON – The anti-diabetic drug phenformin may prompt stronger cancer-fighting activities than its sister compound metformin, a finding that could have major implications for current and future clinical trials investigating both agents for their anti-cancer potential, according to researchers at Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH). In a review article in Trends in Cancer, the team presented...
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New principle for activation of cancer genes discovered
by Karolinska Institutet Researchers have long known that some genes can cause cancer when overactive, but exactly what happens inside the cell nucleus when the cancer grows has so far remained enigmatic. Now, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden have found a new mechanism that renders one canonical driver of cancer overactive. The findings, published...
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Size matters when fighting cancer, study finds
Killer T cells surround a cancer cell. Doctors could be a step closer to finding the most effective way to treat cancer with a double whammy of a virus combined with boosting the natural immune system, according to a pioneering study by researchers at The University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston (UTHealth) and...