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• oncgnostics starts international sales partnership with EUROIMMUN
  

  Biotechnology company oncgnostics GmbH is announcing a collaboration with the international diagnostics group EUROIMMUN, a PerkinElmer company. As part of the cooperation, EUROIMMUN will sell the cervical cancer test from oncgnostics GmbH, Gyn-Tect, in the European countries of Portugal, Italy, Turk more

• Artificial Intelligence could 'crack the language of cancer and Alzheimer's'
  

  Big data produced during decades of research was fed into a computer language model to see if artificial intelligence can make more advanced discoveries than humans. Academics based at St John's College, University of Cambridge, found the machine-learning technology could decipher the 'biological la more

• New Drug Grips Tumor Cells with Two Arms
  

  The first patients with advanced tumors have been treated with a novel antibody-based in a clinical trial in the USA. It uses an invention of the Technische Universität Braunschweig: The team of Professor Stefan Dübel, head of the Department of Biotechnology, discovered a human antibody that targets more

Videos Cancer

Timing Cancer Treatment

There may be an ideal waiting period for delivering multiple cancer drugsResearchers led by members of the Department of Systems Biology at Harvard Medical School had been studying how silencing MDMX, an oncogene, affected the dynamics of p53, a natural tumor suppressor, in cancer cells when the ... more

PARP-inhibitors: A New Generation of Cancer Drugs

First of new generation of cancer drugs granted European approvalA new drug for ovarian cancer, developed by researchers at the University of Cambridge and AstraZeneca, has become the first of new class of drugs, known as PARP-inhibitors, to be granted approval anywhere in the world. The drug, L ... more

ICR Researchers use Cryo-Electron Microscopy to zoom in on DNA code being read in cells

ICR Researchers led by Dr Alessandro Vannini have captured images of molecular machinery called RNA Polymerase III in the act of transcribing a gene in exquisite and unprecedented detail. Animation provided by Phospho Biomedical Animation more

White papers Cancer

• Real-Time Assessment of Apoptosis and Necrosis
  

  Cell death is important for multicellular homeostasis but it also has an unfortunate role in human diseases more

• Weighing Cytostatics in Safety Weighing Cabinets
  

  Weighing Cytostatics in Safety Weighing Cabinets: a contract manufacturer of medications for individual patients, was looking for a balance that he could also use under laminar-flow conditions, which prevail in safety workbenches, safety weighing cab more

• Designer Circular RNA as Protein Sponge for Cancer Therapy
  

  The new circular RNA enables specific binding and inhibition of heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein L in cells and thus opens new therapeutic more

Infographics Cancer

A Rough Guide to the IARC’s Carcinogen Classifications

Today’s big news has been the story that the World Health Organisation (WHO) has classified processed meat (including bacon, ham, and salami) as a Group 1 carcinogen. This places it in the same group as smoking, which has led to a number of headlines claiming that it means the risk from the two is t more

The Chemistry of Ginger

Ginger is a spice that can be commonly found in supermarkets and in the kitchen, either as the fresh root, or in dried, powdered form. It adds a strong, pungent flavour to dishes as a consequence of a number of chemical compounds it contains; additionally, these compounds are altered when the ginger more

Unleashing our immune systems against cancer

The first of the 2018 Nobel Prizes is awarded. The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine was awarded to James P. Allison and Tasuku Honjo for their discovery of cancer therapy by stimulating the immune system to attack tumour cells. This graphic takes a look at the prize-winning research. more

Publications Cancer

• MicroRNA-focused CRISPR-Cas9 library screen reveals fitness-associated miRNAs [ARTICLE]

  MicroRNAs (miRNAs) are post-transcriptional gene regulators that play important roles in the control of cell fitness, differentiation, and development. The CRISPR-Cas9 gene-editing system is composed of the Cas9 nuclease in complex with a single guide RNA (sgRNA) and directs DNA cleavage at a prede more

• Computer aided detection and classification of Pap smear cell images using principal component analysis

  Computer aided detection and classification of Pap smear cell images using principal component analysisPonnusamy Sukumar; Samikannu RaviInternational Journal of Bio-Inspired Computation, Vol. 11, No. 4 (2018) pp. 257 - 266Pap smear is a screening methodology employed in cervix cancer detection and more

• Viruses, Vol. 10, Pages 352: HSV as A Platform for the Generation of Retargeted, Armed, and Reporter-Expressing Oncolytic Viruses

  Viruses, Vol. 10, Pages 352: HSV as A Platform for the Generation of Retargeted, Armed, and Reporter-Expressing Oncolytic Viruses Viruses doi: 10.3390/v10070352 Authors: Laura Menotti Elisa Avitabile Valentina Gatta Paolo Malatesta Biljana Petrovic Gabriella Campadelli-Fiume more