Sentences with phrase «scientist at the cancer»

Dr Sarah Bohndiek, scientist at the Cancer Research UK Cambridge Institute, said: «This research gives us hope for developing better techniques to detect the disease early.

Now, scientists at the Cancer Research Center and the University of Missouri have developed a non-toxic strain of Salmonella to penetrate and target cancer cells.

The WAIF1 antigen was discovered by scientists at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute.

Physician - scientists at the Cancer Institute engage in translational research, transforming their laboratory discoveries into clinical practice, quite literally bringing research to life.

To find out, scientists at Cancer Research UK and the University of Adelaide in Australia studied the interactions between estrogen and progesterone receptors in breast cancer cells.

Not exact matches

PICI (pronounced «pie - sea»), as it's called by its member scientists, is doing something unprecedented in academic medicine: combining and coordinating the efforts of six of the top cancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in ocancer immunology centers in the country — MD Anderson Cancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in oCancer Center, Memorial Sloan Kettering, Penn Medicine, Stanford, UCLA, and UCSF — in order to greatly expand and, more important, to accelerate our understanding of why some immune - based treatments work miraculously in some patients and not at all in others.

In the most recent of these reports (in the latest issue of Science), Dr. Jennifer Wargo, a surgeon and research scientist at M.D. Anderson, along with several dozen colleagues at other institutions, reveal that the composition of a patient's gut microbiota can significantly influence whether he or she responds to an immune checkpoint inhibitor — the type of cancer immunotherapy that releases the emergency brakes in the car analogy above.

Survival times for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, breast and colon cancers have improved dramatically over the past forty years, to the point where scientists are saying they are at «an amazing watershed» in understanding the disease.

The Pershing Square Sohn Prize for Young Investigators in Cancer Research will provide young New York - based scientists the freedom to take risks and pursue their boldest research at a stage when traditional funding is lacking.

Already at that time, the firm had invested in Synthego, a genetic engineering startup that provides scientists with genetic material used in their CRISPR research, and Color Genomics, a company whose genetics services help its customers understand their risk for the most common hereditary cancers.

It is blatantly clear why scientists employed by the tobacco industry arrive at quite different conclusions on the relation of smoking and cancer than do others.

Scientists at the University of Leicester, UK, analyzed the phenolic compounds in brown rice, brown rice bran, and white milled rice (from the same varietal) to look for known cancer - suppressive compounds.

Scientists at the Institute of Food Research (IFR) and John Innes Centre in the UK have developed a heart disease and cancer - fighting broccoli.

When scientists looked at the health of indigenous populations who regularly drink cacao they found that these populations, like the Kuna Islanders, have a lower incident of heart disease, diabetes, and cancer.

Each month you give your baby formula increases the risks of diabetes, breast cancer, being overweight (at least what scientists have proven so far, god knows what else we simply don'tknow)

It's hardly surprising, then, that a 2010 study by scientists at the National Cancer Institute found that nearly 40 percent of the calories American children eat come from empty calories — cookies, sodas, pizza and the rest.

Cow's milk does contain a growth hormone called IGF - 1, which has been tied to increased cancer risk, but scientists say that drinking milk increases IGF - 1 levels in the human body so minimally, if at all, that it's unlikely to explain the association.

In an FWF - funded project, scientists at the University of Graz modified and reinforced a host defence peptide from breast milk so as to enable it to specifically detect cancer cells.

Smoking in cars can expose children's lungs to levels of carcinogens and toxins at rates 10 times higher than when smoking was permitted in bars, added Dr. Mark Travers, a research scientist in the Division of Cancer Prevention and Population Sciences at Roswell.

«Starting in early 2016, the Library will offer a variety of free all - ages programs highlighting the many scientists, inventions and innovations going on across Western New York today through emerging initiatives at the Buffalo Niagara Medical Campus, Roswell Park Cancer Institute, the University at Buffalo, and private industry,» stated Library Director Jakubowski.

However, the impact of the two methylation - regulating enzymes was still seen at 10 to 15 months, when scientists found decreased expression of hundreds of genes — many of which are key tumor suppressor genes such as BMP3, SFRP2 and GATA4 — in the smoke - exposed cells and a five - or - more-fold increase in the signaling of the KRAS oncogene that is known to be mutated in smoking - related lung cancers.

A cancer diagnosis is «one of the most existential crises you can imagine,» says Teresa Woodruff, a reproductive scientist at Northwestern University.

Cancer research is at an «inflection point» where scientists must adapt to new ways of sharing data and putting patients at the center of care, said former Vice President Joseph R. Biden, Jr. at the 2018 AAAS Annual Meeting.

Janda is a psychologist and behavioural scientist who looks at ways to prevent cancer by raising awareness and at ways to catch it quickly using early detection.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer develoCancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer develocancer development.

Scientists are looking at microRNAs for early detection of the notoriously silent cancer that usually becomes symptomatic after it is too late for treatment

A pair of scientists reported at the American Chemical Society meeting here today that they've developed a machine that in just minutes can detect trace compounds in the breath and diagnose diseases such as diabetes, kidney failure, ulcers, and possibly even cancer.

Tops, an M.D. - trained deputy medical examiner at the Armed Forces Institute of Pathology (AFIP) in Washington, D.C., and Dorkina Myrick, an M.D. / Ph.D. physician - scientist, pathologist, and medical officer with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in nearby Bethesda, Maryland, entered pathology from different directions.

He was enthusiastic about connecting scientists - in - training with the cancer community; in fact, he was already discussing this idea with another group at our university.

Revving up the immune system to combat a wide variety of tumor types may take cancer therapy in a new direction, says Khaled Barakat, a computational scientist at the University of Alberta in Canada, who was not involved in the study.

«Over 40 % of prostate cancers lose PTEN and some lose both PTEN and another tumour suppressor gene, INPP4B, but we didn't previously have a clear picture of how this affects tumour growth,» says IMED Biotech Unit scientist Sabina Cosulich, at AstraZeneca.

Sometime around 2010, a fellow scientist at the Mayo Clinic had agreed to donate her healthy blood for use in the research laboratory where Markovic studies the interface between cancer and the immune system.

Professor Charlie Swanton, NCRI chair and Cancer Research UK scientist at the Francis Crick Institute, said: «These are worrying findings.

Dr Harry Bulstrode, a Cancer Research UK scientist at the University of Cambridge, said: «Zika virus infection in babies and children is a major global health concern, and the focus has been to discover more about the virus to find new possible treatments.

Tal Danino, a professor at the Data Science Institute, is conducting research that could help scientists combat the most lethal of cancers: pancreatic cancer.

The other significant finding of the study, says Garrett Jenkinson, Ph.D., assistant research scientist at the Johns Hopkins Whiting School of Engineering who carried out much of the analyses, was that this variability goes haywire in cancer cells, which may display significant regional differences in methylation stochasticity compared to normal cells.

Dr Alice Forster, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at University College London, said: «Although around 87 per cent of girls in the UK do have the vaccine it's concerning to see that some girls from some ethnic minority groups feel they don't need to have it.

Dr Claudia Wellbrock, study author and Cancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow raCancer Research UK scientist at The University of Manchester and a member of the Manchester Cancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow raCancer Research Centre, said: «We used to think that cancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow racancer cells spread by first specialising in invading other parts of the body and then change in order to grow rapidly.

Cancer Research UK scientists at The University of Manchester found that some melanoma cells are particularly fast growing, but not very good at invading the surrounding tissue, while other melanoma cells are the opposite — highly invasive but slow - growing.

Scientists at Lawson Health Research Institute have uncovered an important new target for ovarian cancer therapy.

«Its complexity has scared away many cancer scientists,» notes Robert Weinberg, a researcher at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research.

The creatures were developed by scientists at the National University of Singapore as part of an ongoing attempt to make transgenic fish that light up when exposed to such chemical toxins as PCBs, which are known to cause cancer in humans.

The UZH scientists have now discovered an astonishingly effective solution to switch off all signals emanating from HER2 in the cancer cells at the same time.

Physician - scientists at University Hospitals (UH) Case Medical Center and Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine presented their findings and strategies to increase rates on March 13 at the Society of Surgical Oncology Cancer Symposium in Phoenix.

«Most scientists would respond well to a speculative email saying that you really love their work and you want to come and work with them,» says Simon Vincent, head of research funding at Cancer Research UK, based in London.

Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute used DNA sequencing to identify a panel of mutations present across thousands of cancer cells in three patients with leukCancer Research, London, and the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute used DNA sequencing to identify a panel of mutations present across thousands of cancer cells in three patients with leukcancer cells in three patients with leukaemia.

Vitamin C is up to ten times more effective at stopping cancer cell growth than pharmaceuticals such as 2 - DG, according to scientists in Salford, UK.

After completing his Ph.D. in 2002 and staying on at ICL for a 2 - year postdoc, Barroso took a senior scientist position in cancer immunotherapy at GSK.

Much higher levels of gene activity were triggered in these experiments than scientists have achieved before, says Michael Hemann, a cancer biologist at MIT.

In collaboration with Prof. Dr. Roland Schüle and his team at the Center of Clinical Research of the Freiburg University Medical Center, the scientists were able to test several epigenetic inhibitors that had been newly developed by Schüle and his team on the cancer stem cell model.