Sentences with phrase «called glioblastoma»

There are trials elsewhere being developed for a form of brain cancer called glioblastoma.

In addition to developing the new genetically engineered mouse model for the form of cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, the researchers made a key discovery about brain tumor biology via the mice.

Last night Sen. John McCain's office announced the maverick politician had been diagnosed with a type of aggressive brain cancer called glioblastoma.

Researchers have identified a group of immune system genes that may play a role in how long people can live after developing a common type of brain cancer called glioblastoma multiforme, a tumor of the glial cells in the brain.

«We have identified a code of «molecular switches» that control a very aggressive subpopulation of brain cancer cells, so - called glioblastoma stem cells,» says Mario Suvà, MD, PhD, of the MGH Department of Pathology and Center for Cancer Research, co-lead author of the Cell article.

Several studies have supported a role for cancer stem cells in the aggressive brain tumors called glioblastoma, but those studies involved inducing human tumors to grow in mice, and as such their relevance to cancer in humans has been questioned.

The tumor is called a Glioblastoma multiforme: also called The Terminator.

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In 2009 he had been diagnosed with a type of rapidly growing brain tumor called a high - grade astrocytoma that, despite aggressive treatment, eventually evolved into a glioblastoma — the highly malignant brain tumor that also took the lives of Vice President Joe Biden's son, Beau, in 2015 and former Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009.

At 12:30 p.m., U.S. Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer calls on the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs to review local cases and establish a presumption of service connection for glioblastoma, Stars & Stripes Flag Store, Veterans Outreach Center, 455 South Ave., Rochester.

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a small RNA molecule called miR - 182 that can suppress cancer - causing genes in mice with glioblastoma mulitforme (GBM), a deadly and incurable type of brain tumor.

University of Calgary researchers including Luchman, Weiss and Dr. Greg Cairncross — director of SACRI, and leader of the Terry Fox Research Institute (TFRI) «Therapeutic Targeting of Glioblastoma research program at the university — are now working with cancer researchers Dr. Warren Mason (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto) and Dr. Lesley Seymour (Director of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program), and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, to plan a clinical trial testing a similar, but newer, drug related to AZD8055 (called AZD2014), in combination with TMZ, in patients with gGlioblastoma research program at the university — are now working with cancer researchers Dr. Warren Mason (Princess Margaret Cancer Centre in Toronto) and Dr. Lesley Seymour (Director of the NCIC Clinical Trials Group's Investigational New Drug Program), and drug manufacturer AstraZeneca, to plan a clinical trial testing a similar, but newer, drug related to AZD8055 (called AZD2014), in combination with TMZ, in patients with glioblastomaglioblastoma.

For the new study, O'Rourke and his colleagues designed a CAR targeting an aberrant protein called EGFRvIII that is present in roughly 30 % of glioblastomas and is thought to promote malignancy.

In a study published in the Journal of NeuroOncology, TGen researchers report that PPF works to limit the spread of glioblastoma multiforme, or GBM — the most common primary tumor of the brain and central nervous system — by targeting a protein called TROY.

In addition, TGen laboratory research also found that PPF increases the effectiveness of a standard - of - care chemotherapy drug called temozolomide (TMZ), and radiation, to treat glioblastoma.

Another is that the transplanted bits of tumor act nothing like cancers in actual human brains, Fine and colleagues reported in 2006: Real - life glioblastomas grow and spread and resist treatment because they contain what are called tumor stem cells, but tumor stem cells don't grow well in the lab, so they don't get transplanted into those mouse brains.

That genetic map led to key insights, such as the link between glioblastoma, the deadliest type of brain tumor, and a gene called BEX1.

A research team led by Christine Brown, Ph.D., and a clinical team headed by Behnam Badie, M.D., has received a $ 12.8 million grant from the CIRM to fund a phase 1 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell trial targeting an aggressive brain cancer called malignant glioma, which includes glioblastoma.

Berkeley Lab researchers have developed a new family of nanocarriers, called «3HM,» that meets all the size and stability requirements for effectively delivering therapeutic drugs to the brain for the treatment of a deadly form of cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

She wrote, «I studied an oncogene mutated in an unusual class of rat neuroblastomas and glioblastomas, a receptor called neu / Her2, and found the mutations that activated it in tumors.

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