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A new druggable cancer target: RNA-binding proteins on the cell surface
In 2021, research led by Ryan Flynn, MD, PhD, and his mentor, Nobel laureate Carolyn Bertozzi, PhD, opened a new …Read More
Forecasting the future for childhood cancer survivors
Children are much more likely to survive cancer today than 50 years ago. Unfortunately, as adults, many of them develop …Read More
Faced with a rare type of liver cancer, Ramie focuses on the positive
When Ramie Darling learned that his liver cancer had recurred, he thought for a while and then simply said, “OK.” …Read More
Curbing blood cancers by teaching immune cells to kill mutant stem cells
Blood stem cells, which give rise to all of our blood cell types, undergo a quality assurance process after they’re …Read More
A new anti-cancer strategy: Overriding tumor edits
Cancers are clever and often find ways to dodge people’s immune systems, making them hard to eradicate. Immunotherapies such as …Read More
Could a GI bug’s toxin curb hard-to-treat breast cancer?
Clostridium difficile can cause devastating inflammatory gastrointestinal infections, with much of the damage inflicted by a toxin the bug produces. …Read More
No backing down: Sophia takes on a rare form of liver cancer
Sophia LaBorde is headstrong and “doesn’t back down,” says her mother, Alicia. So last year when Sophia had some gastrointestinal …Read More
A new cancer mechanism: Failed cellular housekeeping
Cancer can stem from mutations in many different genes. New research from Boston Children’s Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute pinpoints …Read More
Going out of the box to tackle pancreatic cancer
Pancreatic cancers are deadly and hard to treat, in part because they are so often detected at an advanced stage; …Read More
Does thyroid cancer in children behave differently than in adults?
Once relatively uncommon, pediatric thyroid cancer is increasing among children and is now the most common type of cancer diagnosed …Read More