New techniques give blood biopsies greater promise
Improved methods validate the use of blood samples for studying patients’ cancer genomes.
Improved methods validate the use of blood samples for studying patients’ cancer genomes.
Advance may open new pathways for cancer immunotherapy.
Model developed at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory could reduce false positives and unnecessary surgeries.
Drug already in clinical trials may be effective on some aggressive adenocarcinomas.
Cutting off a process that cancerous cells rely on can force them to stop growing.
New technique could make it easier to use mRNA to treat disease or deliver vaccines.
Researchers gauge a cell’s stiffness, which can reflect cancer or other conditions, simply by watching it.
Expanding tissue samples before imaging offers detailed information about disease.
New agent could be used for certain high-risk groups and may enable longer-term tumor imaging.
Marking its first anniversary, the Koch Institute’s Marble Center for Cancer Nanomedicine goes full steam ahead.
Biologists discover the immune system can eliminate cells with too many or too few chromosomes.
Findings support new strategy of continuous drug delivery by implantable device.
Blocking the transition to a more aggressive state could offer a new treatment strategy.
Senior Tiffany Yeh explores health care and poverty through working abroad, and cultivates her love of music while at home.
Introducing genetic mutations with CRISPR offers a fast and accurate way to simulate the disease.