Sentences with phrase «in brain cancer research»

«The looming question in brain cancer research today is whether the launch of immunotherapy will help control an uncontrollable disease,» said Rifaat Bashir, MD, a retired neurologist in Reston, Virginia and a Fellow of the American Academy of Neurology and the American Neurological Association, who wrote an accompanying editorial.

Very encouraged to see government doubling investment in brain cancer research to # 40m a year in honour of former cabinet minister Dame Tessa Jowell.

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One study that looked at more than 5,000 brain cancer cases in 13 countries found no increase in risk related to phone use, though it called for more research on the topic.

For example, Wild Blueberries have double the antioxidant capacity of regular blueberries and recent research is suggesting that they may play an important role in gut and brain health and also lower the incidence of diabetes and certain cancers.

According to the University of Maryland Medical Center polyunsaturated fatty acids (PUFAs)-- also known as omega - 3 fatty acids — play a crucial role in human brain function, as well as normal growth and development, with research showing that they can also reduce inflammation in addition to helping lower the risk of chronic diseases such as heart disease, cancer, and arthritis.

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May, who has announced that funding for brain cancer research would be doubled and better diagnostic tests rolled out to all NHS hospitals in tribute, said the former Labour cabinet minister's dignity and courage were «as humbling as they were inspirational», adding: «Even at what must have been some of her most difficult moments, her compassion for others shone through.»

«It's wonderful that we now have the Tessa Jowell brain cancer research fund and hope we will support that, so that others won't suffer in the awful way that she suffered.

In a revolutionary first, Cancer Research UK - funded scientists will test whether the Zika virus can destroy brain tumour cells, potentially leading to new treatments for one of the hardest to treat cancers.

An experimental drug in early development for aggressive brain tumors can cross the blood - brain tumor barrier, kill tumor cells and block the growth of tumor blood vessels, according to a study led by researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

«Steep funding cuts for the federal health agencies are counterproductive at a time when innovative research is moving us closer to identifying solutions for rare diseases, new prevention strategies to protect Americans from deadly and costly conditions, advances in gene therapy, new technologies for understanding the brain, and treatments that harness the ability of our immune system to fight cancer.»

HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compresearch associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta Cancer Research Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compResearch Institute, looked at human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.

The research identifies a potential characteristic for predicting outcome in a deadly form of brain cancer known as glioblastoma multiforme.

Nagoya University - led research team shows in mice the potential of a special immune cell that targets a key protein in tumor growth that helps stop brain cancer.

«Discovering new pathways and therapies that can be tested in the clinic provides the greatest hope for brain cancer patients and their families,» says Weiss, leader of the university's Brain and Mental Health strategic research priobrain cancer patients and their families,» says Weiss, leader of the university's Brain and Mental Health strategic research prioBrain and Mental Health strategic research priority.

A team under Professor Scheffler, consisting of researchers from the Bonn University Hospital, the Life & Brain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors beBrain Center, The German Consortium for Translational Cancer Research, Tufts University Boston / Massachusetts, and other institutes in the USA, has now developed a new method that is expected to combat such complex brain tumors bebrain tumors better.

Research teams from Karolinska Institutet and Uppsala University have jointly discovered that the usually protective enzyme FBW7 is commonly mutated and inactivated in childhood brain cancers causing tumors to spread and become more difficult to treat.

A molecule in cells that shuts down the expression of genes might be a promising target for new drugs designed to treat the most frequent and lethal form of brain cancer, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — Jcancer, according to a new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — JCancer Center — Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — JCancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC — James).

In a significant breakthrough, the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has identified a drug, propentofylline or PPF, that could help treat patients with deadly brain cancer.

A study published in Molecular Cancer Research reveals that a tumor suppressor gene p16 is turned off by a histone mutation (H3.3 K27M), which is found in up to 70 percent of childhood brain tumors called diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma (DIPG).

So a team led by autoimmunity researcher and rheumatologist J. Lee Nelson of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle, Washington, took samples from autopsied brains of 59 women who died between the ages of 32 and 101.

Research from McMaster University has identified new regulators of brain metastases in patients with lung cancer.

«If you look at a set of lung cancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hoscancer patients, like we did in the paper, who develop brain metastases, they all have those two genes in their primary lung cancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hoscancer,» said Sheila Singh, the study's supervisor, associate professor at the Michael G. DeGroote School of Medicine, scientist with the Stem Cell and Cancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's HosCancer Research Institute at McMaster University and neurosurgeon at McMaster Children's Hospital.

Obama, he said, elevated the role of science and technology advisers throughout the executive branch, put in place plans to mitigate and prepare the United States for the impacts of climate change, set up health research initiatives to tackle such priorities as cancer and brain research, worked with international partners on scientific issues and used the White House as a platform from which to herald science and education, particularly for children.

Research at the school seeks new cures and treatments in five key areas: cancer, liver disease, heart / lung disease, aging and brain disease, and infectious disease.

Their findings may turn out to be important when it comes to research into cerebral cancer, since it is known that components of the Hippo signaling pathway, such as neurofibromin 2, are involved in the generation of brain tumors.

Additionally, since ribosomal RNA has been shown to have specified controlled of cellular fate, this study provides a theoretical basis for disease therapy and neuroscience research and may lead to future advances in treating degenerative diseases or even brain cancers.

Researchers from the University of Portsmouth's Brain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence have identified molecules which are responsible for metastatic lung cancer cells binding to blood vessels in the bBrain Tumour Research Centre of Excellence have identified molecules which are responsible for metastatic lung cancer cells binding to blood vessels in the brainbrain.

A team including scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, found that women whose breast cancer had begun to spread and who tested positive in the αB - crystallin test were three times more likely to have disease that spread to the brain than those who tested negCancer Research, London, found that women whose breast cancer had begun to spread and who tested positive in the αB - crystallin test were three times more likely to have disease that spread to the brain than those who tested negcancer had begun to spread and who tested positive in the αB - crystallin test were three times more likely to have disease that spread to the brain than those who tested negative.

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) has uncovered possible genetic origins of breast cancer that spreads to the brain, according to a first - of - its - kind study published in the scientific journal PLOS ONE.

That may be great if you are using carbon nanotubes to deliver chemotherapy drugs to people with brain tumors, as cancer researchers in California (at City of Hope, a cancer research and treatment center in Duarte in collaboration with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena), hope to do.

In the Oncogene study, the research team found key distinctions in how these mutated genes give rise to PLGGs, a varied group of cancers that collectively account for the most common brain tumor in childreIn the Oncogene study, the research team found key distinctions in how these mutated genes give rise to PLGGs, a varied group of cancers that collectively account for the most common brain tumor in childrein how these mutated genes give rise to PLGGs, a varied group of cancers that collectively account for the most common brain tumor in childrein children.

The panel also called for «aggressive research» on using RU486 and other drugs in the antiprogrestin class as contraceptives and as treat - ment for endometriosis, uter - ine fibroids, advanced breast cancer and meningioma brain tumours.

Proton beam therapy — a more precise form of radiotherapy — to treat the childhood brain cancer medulloblastoma appears to be as safe as conventional radiotherapy with similar survival rates, according to new research published in The Lancet Oncology journal.

Gregory Foltz of Swedish Medical Center in Seattle saw that BEX1 was turned off in the brains of his tumor patients, and using the Brain Atlas, he confirmed that the gene is usually active in healthy brains, as reported in Cancer Research in 2006.

Many of these genes are usually switched off in adults, but previous research has shown that in many cancers — including prostate, ovarian, and brain cancer, melanoma, and leukemia — HOX genes are switched back on, helping the cancer cells to proliferate and survive.

«Current trends in the neuroscience field, particularly in alcohol research, indicate that drugs which are used to treat various types of cancer, such as HDAC inhibitors, appear to be very important in regulating brain function,» said Subhash C. Pandey, Ph.D., professor and director of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Illinois at research, indicate that drugs which are used to treat various types of cancer, such as HDAC inhibitors, appear to be very important in regulating brain function,» said Subhash C. Pandey, Ph.D., professor and director of the Alcohol Research Center at the University of Illinois at Research Center at the University of Illinois at Chicago.

They included efforts to prepare communities to adapt to climate change; the cancer moonshot, precision medicine, and brain research in the health arena; a network of advanced manufacturing institutes to recapture global industrial dominance; and public - private partnerships to improve science and math education.

Zhang, the Nancy Dee Professor of Cancer Research, has published the breakthrough, «Microenvironment - induced PTEN loss by exosomal microRNA primes brain metastasis outgrowth,» this month in Nature.

Research Interests: Clinical pharmacology of anticancer agents; early phase drug development; drug tolerability in cancer patients with HIV / AIDS; drug tolerability in cancer patients with organ dysfunction; blood - brain barrier penetration of drugs.

Chemotherapy Alone as Initial Treatment for Primary CNS Lymphoma in Patients Older Than 60 Years: A Multicenter Phase II Study (26952) of the European Organization for Research and Treatment of Cancer Brain Tumor Group

Wistar is expanding its research efforts on brain cancer, both in basic and translational research.

Further research uncovered a broad spectrum of cell surface stem cell markers (e.g., CD133, CD44, and CD24) that allow the identification of CSCs in human solid tumors, including brain, breast, prostate, pancreas, liver, ovary, skin, colon cancers, and melanoma (3 - 6)(Figure 1 based on 7).

The study conducted in the laboratory of Don Cleveland, Ph.D., UCSD Professor of Medicine, Neurosciences and Cellular and Molecular Medicine and member of the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, shows that therapeutic molecules known as antisense oligonucleotides can be delivered to the brain and spinal cord through the cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) at doses shown to slow the progression of ALS in rats.

Currently, her research interest is focused on the functional characterization of cell - autonomous molecular determinants, known to control cardinal stem cell properties in normal NSCs, in the attempt of understanding their putative role in regulating the same properties in brain tumor - derived cancer stem cells.

There are now multiple immunotherapies targeting clearance of alpha - synuclein from the brain in early - stage clinical trials, and multiple trials underway or in the works on the next generation of cell replacement therapies for dopaminergic neurons, including the TRANSEURO trial; the Summit4StemCell initiative, put together by Jeanne Loring — a researcher at The Scripps Research Institute who is exceptionally engaged with turning her research into therapies; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); and a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist LorenzResearch Institute who is exceptionally engaged with turning her research into therapies; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); and a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist Lorenzresearch into therapies; a Japanese trial to be run by Jun Takahashi of Kyoto University in Japan (cf. here and here); and a trial centered at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center headed by cell biologist Lorenz Studer.

The research, published this month in PNAS, shows that the gene known as BRCA1 has a significant role in creating healthy brains in mice and may provide a hint as to why some women genetically prone to breast cancer experience brain seizures.

Kessler is proud to be part of one only nine federally - designated Model Systems for the treatment and research of both spinal cord and brain injuries, a distinction shared with Kessler Foundation, and also leads the field in the care of individuals with stroke, neurologic diseases, amputation, orthopedic trauma, cancer and cardiac conditions.

Here Steve tells us how his interest in stem cells led him into cancer research and how he believes this angle of brain tumour research has unique potential for tackling cancers which are currently difficult to treat.

Two years post-launch, we've seen an increase in funding for research into lung, pancreatic and oesophageal cancers and brain tumours — together totalling # 74.7 million in 2015/16.