Fighting cancer with junk?
Can we use the ‘junk’ in our DNA to fight back against cancer? Jennifer investigates the disease cancer and how blind mole rats can repurpose ‘junk’ in their DNA to stop cancer before it starts.
Tagged: cancer
The detective and the scientist: clues in a patient’s DNA may predict their response to cancer drugs
Author investigates the use of ‘mini-organs’ to help deliver personalised medicine to patients in clinic
Garlic and onions in cancer chemistry
Salvia Novianti Widjaja talks about the interesting interactions of garlic and onions in the mechanisms of breast cancer
Catching Cancer: The Viruses that Transform Cells into Tumours
Ailish explores oncoviruses, the group of silent pathogenic invaders whose cellular disruption has led them to become a leading cause of human cancers worldwide.
A New Step Towards an Optimised T-cell Cancer Therapy
Daniele Guido provides an insight into one of the new weapons doctors have against cancer.
A New Step in Cancer Immunotherapy
Michael MacMillan delves into the potential capabilities of an exciting new cancer vaccine that, at first, doesn’t seem to behave like a vaccine at all.
The Hidden Weapon to Defeat Cancer
Could it be possible that we harbour a weapon to defeat cancer in our body? YES! Scientists are using our own immune system to kill tumours.
Mind Your Bugs
Cleveland Clinics researchers are the first to explore breast tissue microbiota – revealing a link between a particular bacterial composition and breast cancer.
