Exploring cancer metabolism
Matthew Vander Heiden seeks new cancer treatments that exploit tumor cells’ abnormal metabolism.
Matthew Vander Heiden seeks new cancer treatments that exploit tumor cells’ abnormal metabolism.
CSAIL wireless system suggests future where doctors could implant sensors to track tumors or even dispense drugs.
Machine-learning system determines the fewest, smallest doses that could still shrink brain tumors.
Hydrogen peroxide-sensing molecule reveals whether chemotherapy drugs are having their intended effects.
With new method, surgeons would remove tumor, then implant microparticles that attack remaining cancer cells.
Whitehead team deploys CRISPR tools to better understand and uncover ways of improving methotrexate, a popular chemotherapy drug.
Drugs carried in cellular “backpacks” help T cells to destroy tumors.
Researchers identify the amino acid aspartate as a metabolic limitation in certain cancers.
Mechanism-based cancer prevention is poised to further decrease the numbers of U.S. cancer deaths, says MIT professor emerita.
Shortfall of digestive enzymes can lead to tissue breakdown in early stages of pancreatic cancer.
Nanoparticles carrying two drugs can cross the blood-brain barrier and shrink glioblastoma tumors.
A drug treatment that mimics fasting can also provide the same benefit, study finds.
Mouse study links early metastasis to systemic inflammation caused by wound healing.
Technology could help prevent life-threatening infections in patients receiving chemotherapy.
Synthetic biologist hopes to develop treatments for cancer and other diseases.