Oncology

66 articles with this tag

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw Health

How Liquid Biopsies Detect Cancer From a Blood Draw

Liquid biopsies analyze tiny fragments of tumor DNA circulating in the bloodstream, offering a minimally invasive way to detect cancer, guide treatmen...

Redakcia
Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors Health

Probiotic Bacteria Engineered to Hunt and Kill Tumors

Scientists are programming gut-friendly bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce cancer-fighting drugs on-site, showing dramatic results in mice and...

Redakcia
How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why Science

How Men Lose the Y Chromosome With Age—and Why

As men age, their blood cells increasingly shed the Y chromosome in a process called mosaic loss of Y (mLOY), which scientists now link to heart disea...

Redakcia
How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors Science

How Engineered Bacteria Fight Cancer From Inside Tumors

Scientists are programming harmless bacteria to infiltrate tumors and produce anti-cancer drugs on site. Here's how bacterial cancer therapy works, wh...

Redakcia
Metastasis is Not Random: Scientists Discover Genetic Code for Cancer Spread Science

Metastasis is Not Random: Scientists Discover Genetic Code for Cancer Spread

Researchers at the University of Geneva have identified gene patterns that govern the spread of cancer and developed an AI tool, MangroveGS, that pred...

Redakcia
Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable Science

Breakthrough in Brain Cancer: Virus Makes Glioblastoma Vulnerable

American researchers have used a modified herpes virus to deliver immune cells deep into glioblastoma tumors, significantly improving survival rates f...

Redakcia
How Oncolytic Viruses Turn Cancer Against Itself Science

How Oncolytic Viruses Turn Cancer Against Itself

Oncolytic virus therapy uses genetically engineered viruses that selectively infect and destroy cancer cells while activating the immune system to hun...

Redakcia
How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth Science

How a Mouth Bacterium Fuels Cancer Growth

Fusobacterium nucleatum, a common oral bacterium linked to gum disease, can travel through the bloodstream to fuel tumor growth in the colon, breast,...

Redakcia
What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia Science

What Is TDP-43 and How It Links ALS and Dementia

TDP-43 is a protein found in nearly every human cell. When it misfolds and clumps, it drives ALS, frontotemporal dementia, and possibly cancer — makin...

Redakcia
How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors Science

How Cat Cancer Research Helps Fight Human Tumors

Scientists mapped cancer genetics across nearly 500 cat tumors and found striking overlaps with human cancers, opening new paths for treatments that c...

Redakcia
What Is the Thymus—and Why It Matters for Longevity Health

What Is the Thymus—and Why It Matters for Longevity

Long dismissed as irrelevant after childhood, the thymus gland is now recognized as a key driver of immune health throughout adult life—and new resear...

Redakcia
What Is Intratumoral Immunotherapy and How Does It Work? Health

What Is Intratumoral Immunotherapy and How Does It Work?

Intratumoral immunotherapy injects immune-activating drugs directly into tumors, converting them into self-made vaccines that can attack cancer throug...

Redakcia