From cancer neutralization to fertility preservation
Scientists are working to provide fertility options for cancer patients and expand the menu of cancer therapies.
Cancer Research
Chemotherapy’s hidden origins
From chemical warfare trenches, scientists glimpsed an opportunity to transform deadly mustard gas into a revolutionary cancer treatment.
Science Milestone: The rise of Herceptin
Herceptin transformed breast cancer treatment and opened the door to targeted therapy.
Rewiring cell communication to treat melanoma
Exosomes show encouraging results for treating melanoma, offering potential benefits for targeted drug delivery and immunotherapy
Advancing immune forces at the tumor frontlines
Epigenetic therapies revive the immune cell offensive in immunotherapy resistant tumors.
Modifying macrophages to attack solid tumors
A team of industry and academic researchers developed a new way to engineer the immune
system, leading to the first clinical trial using genetically modified macrophages.
Making CAR T cell therapy more accessible
Allogeneic T cells may serve as universal, ready-to-use therapeutic agents for large scale clinical applications.
Advancing cancer biomarker detection
Researchers leverage novel biomarker detection techniques to transform cancer diagnosis and treatment management.
The versatile value of mRNA vaccines
Robert Georgantas aims to expand the development of mRNA-based vaccines for a range of infectious diseases and cancers.
Nanotubes shred tumors in mice
Magnetic carbon nanotubes treat drug-resistant glioblastoma in mice, but hurdles remain for human translation.
