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Genome screen uncovers new targets for cancer immunotherapy

23.08.2019 Health Problems

Immunotherapy has revolutionized the treatment of cancer in the last decade, yet many tumors do not respond to these new therapies. A new genome-wide screen of 20,000 human genes in T cells have turned up several new candidates to unleash the immune system’s ability to attack a variety of tumor types, Yale researchers report Aug. 22 in the journal Cell. […]

Protein analysis uncovers new cancer subtypes for medulloblastoma

11.09.2018 Health Problems

Two patients with the same kind of tumor can have very different experiences. One patient’s cancer may progress quickly while the other grows slowly. Treatments may shrink tumors or have no effect at all. And some patients survive while others don’t. Efforts to profile tumors at the DNA, RNA, or epigenetic levels have revealed subtypes of tumors that help oncologists […]