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World's largest collection of deprioritised pharma compounds opens to researchers
Dec 09, 2014
A collection of 68 deprioritised pharmaceutical compounds1 is being made available to academic researchers through a partnership between the Medical Research Council (MRC) and seven global drug... Read More
CEOs of leading cancer organisations stand together in the fight to reduce tobacco-related death across the world
Dec 09, 2014
Cancer Research UK, the Union for International Cancer Control, the US National Cancer Institute, and Cancer Council Australia, today formally united to further research into evidence-based tobacco... Read More
Agios announces new data from ongoing Phase 1 trial of AG-221 showing robust clinical activity in patients with advanced hematologic malignancies
Dec 09, 2014
Agios Pharmaceuticals, Inc., a leader in the fields of cancer metabolism and rare genetic disorders of metabolism, has announced new data from the ongoing Phase 1 dose escalation study of AG-221 as... Read More
Southampton scientists make breakthrough in understanding of rare blood cancer
Dec 09, 2014
A breakthrough in understanding of a rare form of blood cancer could lead to significant improvements in treatment for patients. Read More
Screening for matrix effect in leukemia subtypes could sharpen chemotherapy targeting
Dec 09, 2014
Location, location, location goes the old real estate proverb but cancer also responds to its neighborhood, particularly in the physical surroundings of bone marrow cells where human myeloid... Read More
Prevention of prostate cancer growth and spread achieved in animal studies
Dec 09, 2014
Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center have completed a critical step in the journey from a basic science discovery in the lab to a potential clinical application, showing... Read More
Colon cancer cells in situ co-opt fibroblasts in surrounding tissue to break out
Dec 09, 2014
It means cancer "in place" but a carcinoma "in situ" often does not want to keep its place. Read More
HPV vaccination not linked with risky sexual behavior among teenage girls
Dec 09, 2014
Sexual behavior of teenage girls does not appear to be affected by routine human papilloma virus vaccination, according to a large study published in CMAJ. Read More
New association between smoking, loss of the Y chromosome and cancer
Dec 09, 2014
In a new study, published in Science, researchers at Uppsala University demonstrate an association between smoking and loss of the Y chromosome in blood cells. Read More
Tamoxifen may treat myeloproliferative neoplasms - a type of blood disorder for which there is currently no cure
Dec 09, 2014
This discovery has a potential application in the treatment of certain blood disorders for which there is currently no cure. The study was led by Dr. Read More
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