New cancer therapies in 2022 achieving unprecedented remissions - reviewing a year of hope
Including gene editing, immunotherapy, modified viruses, vaccines, personalised medicine, and nanotechnology
Cancer
This section will maintain key information and medical advancements relating to cancer – how to prevent it and what treatments are available.
Not every new story - just major breakthroughs and studies on ways to prevent. Particularly will be focusing on research results in humans - lots of promising treatments unfortunately never make it from the lab, through human trials, and onto the market.
Did you know? A handful of your cells turn cancerous EVERY DAY - but your immune system tracks them down and kills them before they turn into large-scale cancer.
Resources
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Atropos Therapeutics
Biopharmaceutical company focused on discovering and developing drugs against aging disorders and cancer.
Oncosence
Company that target cancer by developing senescence inducing and senolytic (senescent cell killing) compounds.
GeneCare Research Institute
Institute researching and developing drug discovery in the fields of cancer and inflammation
Could DNA nanorobots cure cancer
DNA nanobots will soon be tried in a critically ill leukemia patient
Presage Biosciences
Company that develops a technology platform to improve the cancer drug development process
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Recent News
iKnife can diagnose endometrial cancer within seconds, paves way for new diagnostic pathways
The Guardian - 03-Jan-2023
Getting diagnosis within seconds could enable women confirmed to have cancer start treatment sooner
Read more...Therapeutic applications of base editing clears girl's leukemia
BBC - 11-Dec-2022
Base editing can soon be a part in taking control of our genomes to fight genetic diseases
Read more...Researchers found a missing genetic link that helps melanoma cells defeat mortality
EurekAlert! - 10-Nov-2022
Mutations in a telomere binding protein provide a new approach to treat melanoma and other cancers
Read more...Understanding air pollution cancer would lead to a new era of molecular cancer prevention
BBC - 10-Sep-2022
Mutations alone are not always enough for tumour formation
Read more...Pharmashots interviews Laurent Levy about cancer-killing radiotherapy enhancers
Pharmashots - 10-Aug-2022
NBTXR3 might give hope to patients who are ineligible for certain chemotheraphy
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