Brain Tumor News
May 21, 2024
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Mar. 8, 2024 Scientists have developed a new approach using the Zika virus to destroy brain cancer cells and inhibit tumor growth, while sparing healthy ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Research team draws up criteria for PET-based examinations of malignant brain ...
Dec. 12, 2023 Glioblastoma is one of the most treatment-resistant cancers, with those diagnosed surviving for less than two years. In a new study, researchers have found that a largely understudied cell could offer new insight into how the aggressive, primary ...
Nov. 29, 2023 Researchers have been working to better understand what drives melanoma brain metastasis. They now report on the identification of a cell signaling pathway that regulates the metastatic spread of ...
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May 20, 2024 For many patients with a deadly type of brain cancer called glioblastoma, chemotherapy resistance is a big problem. But now, researchers may have moved a step closer to a ...
May 3, 2024 Scientists have discovered how glioblastoma evades the immune system by inducing pro-tumor macrophages via a glucose based epigenetic ...
May 1, 2024 An mRNA cancer vaccine quickly reprogrammed the immune system to attack the most aggressive type of brain tumor in a first-ever human clinical ...
Apr. 22, 2024 Scientists are developing and validating a patent-pending novel immunotherapy to be used against glioblastoma brain tumors. Glioblastomas are almost always lethal with a median survival time of 14 ...
Mar. 13, 2024 Targeting two brain tumor-associated proteins -- rather than one -- with CAR T cell therapy shows promise as a strategy for reducing solid tumor growth in patients with recurrent glioblastoma (GBM), ...
Feb. 29, 2024 Researchers are exploiting a unique biological feature of glioblastoma to gain a better understanding of how this puzzling brain cancer develops and ...
Feb. 15, 2024 New research identifies protein (PANK4) as an obstacle that blocks cancer cells from responding to chemotherapeutic treatment for ...
Jan. 22, 2024 A water-soluble, luminescent europium complex enables evaluation of malignancy grade in model glioma tumor ...
Jan. 3, 2024 Mutations of the tumor suppressor p53 not only have a growth-promoting effect on the cancer cells themselves, but also influence the cells in the tumor's microenvironment. Scientists have now shown ...
Nov. 29, 2023 The largest review of papers for brain cancer that has spread from the lungs has found abnormalities in the brain cancer and for which licensed drugs ...
Earlier Headlines
Nov. 27, 2023 The gene-editing technology CRISPR shows early promise as a therapeutic strategy for the aggressive and difficult-to-treat brain cancer known as primary glioblastoma, according to new ...
Nov. 21, 2023 GRP78 is a promising CAR T-cell immunotherapy target for brain and solid tumors. Discover why it's special, including how cancer uses it to trick immune ...
Nov. 14, 2023 Cancer stem cells cause the aging of macrophages in mice with healthy immune systems, creating conditions for the formation of ...
Oct. 31, 2023 A pioneering study has unveiled that the 3D organization of DNA can influence the progression of the aggressive brain tumor known as glioblastoma. Having identified the factors that glioblastoma uses ...
Oct. 27, 2023 A new research study shows that cerebrospinal fluid reduces current treatment efficacy in brain cancer and identifies new therapeutic opportunities. Cerebrospinal fluid, the clear colourless liquid ...
Oct. 17, 2023 Glioblastoma is the most common type of brain tumor that affects adults and, unfortunately, still remains incurable. In a new study, researchers have demonstrated that a specific mitochondrial ...
Oct. 12, 2023 A new study has revealed a crucial link between the TUG1 gene and the ability of cancer cells to proliferate under high-stress conditions. Targeting this gene with a new therapy suppressed tumor ...
Oct. 4, 2023 Scientists have created a new zebrafish xenograft platform to screen for novel treatments for an aggressive brain tumor called glioblastoma, according to a new ...
Sep. 28, 2023 A new study has for the first time exhaustively analyzed neutrophils that reside in brain tumors, detailing how the immune cells support brain cancer survival and how they're manipulated by the ...
Sep. 21, 2023 Tumor vaccines can help the body fight cancer. These vaccines alert the patient's immune system to proteins that are carrying cancer-typical alterations. Physicians and cancer researchers have ...
Sep. 14, 2023 Researchers have discovered a new way to target and kill cancer cells in hard-to-treat brain tumours using electrically charged molecules to trigger self-destruction, that could be developed into a ...
Sep. 6, 2023 Researchers have designed a device that can help test treatments in patients with gliomas, a type of tumor that originates in the brain or spinal ...
Sep. 1, 2023 A study sheds new light on why tumors that have spread to the brain from other parts of the body respond to immunotherapy while glioblastoma, an aggressive cancer that originates in the brain, does ...
Aug. 11, 2023 Scientists discovered that anti-CTLA-4 immunotherapy extended the lives of mice with glioblastoma by causing specialized CD4+ T immune cells to 1) infiltrate the brain and 2) tell brain-resident ...
July 13, 2023 A new boron agent drastically improves the effectiveness of boron neutron capture therapy for glioblastoma. The agent is selectively absorbed by brain tumor cells, exhibits enhanced blood retention, ...
July 7, 2023 New AI tool enables in-surgery genomic profiling of gliomas, the most aggressive and most common brain tumors. This information offers critical clues about how aggressive a cancer is, its future ...
July 5, 2023 A new vaccine boosts the response of engineered CAR-T cells and helps the immune system generate T cells that target other tumor antigens. The researchers found this approach made it more likely that ...
July 3, 2023 A group led by researchers at Nagoya University in Japan used nanowires to develop a technology for capturing cell-free DNA from cancer cells in urine samples. Using their technique, they captured ...
June 15, 2023 Folate-based radiopharmaceuticals can be used in positron emission tomography (PET) imaging to detect folate receptors in brain tumours. The discovery of folate receptors and their exploitation ...
June 14, 2023 A new, biodegradable ultrasound far more powerful than previous devices could make brain cancers more treatable, researchers ...
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- Research Discovery May Help Diagnose and Treat Cancer and Brain Disorders
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- The Interferon Gamma Receptor Pathway Is Necessary for CAR T-Cell Mediated Killing in Solid Tumors
- Recurring Brain Tumors Shaped by Genetic Evolution and Microenvironment
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- Under Arrest: Using Nanofibers to Stop Brain Tumor Cells from Spreading
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- Cancer Cells’ Unexpected Genetic Tricks for Evading the Immune System
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