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Video: Illuminating the city of cells inside cancer
6th July 2023
A new technique produces stunning, nebula-like images of tumours that provide crucial insights into cancer, how it behaves and how our immune cells attempt to fight it.
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New insight into how a faulty protein drives lung cancer gives clues to why some therapies fail
15th June 2023
The findings could help explain why cancer drugs that target the molecule MET work for some people but not others.
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Scientists uncover a promising strategy to combat leukaemia resistance
18th May 2023
Research reveals a vulnerability in leukaemia cells that causes them to fill with toxic fatty acids
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Ovarian cancer’s protective barrier: how the tumour matrix teaches cells to disarm immune attack
15th May 2023
The results suggest new strategies to overcome the cancer’s defences and treat patients more effectively
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Understanding the role of cancer’s circular genome in tumour evolution
23rd September 2022
New research, co-led by Dr Benjamin Werner from Barts Cancer Institute at Queen Mary University of London, indicates that the circular DNA structures present in around a third of cancers lead to extensive genetic diversity within tumours, giving them the ability to adapt rapidly to environmental stress and resist targeted cancer treatment.
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BCI researcher receives new Pancreatic Cancer UK Fellowship
20th July 2022
Congratulations to Dr Audrey Lumeau, Postdoctoral Researcher at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, who has received a Career Foundation Fellowship from the charity Pancreatic Cancer UK to investigate chromosomal instability in pancreatic cancer and its role in therapy resistance.
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