Nanofibers made of copper-binding peptides disrupt cancer cells
While toxic in high concentrations, copper is essential to life as a trace element. Many tumors require significantly more ...
Healthy women have cells that resemble breast cancer, study finds
A new study from researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center finds that, in healthy women, some breast ...
Cancer-like mutations in healthy cells point to genetic origins of breast cancer
BC Cancer, Harvard Medical School and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center (MSK) have pinpointed what could be the early ...
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Cancer cells use ribosomes to evade immune detection, study shows
Turns out cancer cells might use our very own protein factories to hide. Each of our cells contain a million of these minuscule factories, called ribosomes. Liam: "They make all the protein we need.
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When Science Needs Art: The Work of Science Illustrator Hashime Murayama
From Cornell, he went on to become National Geographic’s first in-house illustrator ... and discovered that he could detect uterine cancer cells using vaginal smears, also known as the Pap ...
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Breast cancer: why it’s difficult to treat and what new approaches are on the horizon
Physiologist Anna-Mart Engelbrecht, who heads the Cancer Research Group at Stellenbosch University, explains why this is so and how precision medicine could help. Normally, cell growth ...