by Vanderbilt University Chemoresistant SW480 colon cancer cells stained for lipid rafts (green), death receptor 4 (red), and cell nuclei (blue). Image taken using a Zeiss LSM 880 from the Vanderbilt Cell Imaging Shared Resource Center. Credit: Joshua Greenlee Vanderbilt faculty and researchers are looking for the “Achilles’ heel” of the cancer cells that survive initial...
by Aalto University AI methods can help us perfect drug combinations. Credit: Matti Ahlgren, Aalto University When healthcare professionals treat patients suffering from advanced cancers, they usually need to use a combination of therapies. In addition to cancer surgery, the patients are often treated with radiation therapy, medication or both. Medication can be combined with drugs...
A new technique could offer a targeted approach to fighting cancer: low-intensity pulses of ultrasound have been shown to selectively kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells unharmed. Ultrasound waves—sound waves with frequencies higher than humans can hear—have been used as a cancer treatment before, albeit in a broad-brush approach: high-intensity bursts of ultrasound can...
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS The new treatment will serve as both diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors. This breakthrough in the technologies of cancer diagnosis and treatment was made by an interdisciplinary Russian-German collaboration of chemists, physicists, and biologists from NUST MISIS, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU), and...
