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Radiotherapy boosts CAR T cell survival in solid tumours
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (571+ words) Findings from a new study at Mount Sinai suggests radiotherapy alters the tumour environment to support CAR T cell persistence via dendritic cells, potentially overcoming a key challenge in solid tumours. Researchers at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount…...
Notch2 signalling pathway enables breast cancer dormancy in bone marrow niches
22+ hour, 24+ min ago (687+ words) A team of international researchers have identified how breast cancer cells remain dormant in bone marrow for years, revealing a key role for Notch2 signalling in helping them evade treatment. Treating breast cancer is challenging due to the fact that cancer…...
ELRIG announces keynote speakers for Drug Discovery 2026 conference in London
1+ day, 1+ hour ago (394+ words) The not-for-profit organisation has revealed the keynote programme for its flagship London conference, featuring Life Arc CEO Dr Sam Barrell CBE and a panel of senior industry leaders." ELRIG has announced the keynote speaker programme for their Drug Discovery 2026 conference,…...
Ferroptosis emerges as strategy against treatment-resistant digestive cancers
1+ week, 6+ day ago (474+ words) Scientists are exploring ferroptosis " a form of iron-dependent cell death " as a novel strategy to combat treatment resistance in digestive cancers which could provide new therapies for pancreatic, liver, colorectal and gastric malignancies that have proven resistant to conventional treatments....
Study suggests senolytic therapies could slow spinal disc degeneration
1+ week, 6+ day ago (425+ words) Researchers at Thomas Jefferson University have found evidence that senolytic therapies may help delay early intervertebral disc degeneration, a leading cause of chronic back and neck pain. Intervertebral disc degeneration affects millions of people worldwide and is a major contributor…...
Gene-based CIN score predicts breast cancer survival and immunotherapy response
1+ week, 6+ day ago (524+ words) Shanghai researchers have developed a 13-gene chromosomal instability score that predicts breast cancer survival and identifies patients likely to respond to immunotherapy." Researchers at Renji Hospital, School of Medicine at"Shanghai Jiao Tong University have developed a new gene-based scoring…...
Why targeted therapies are exposing the limits of animal models " and what comes next
1+ week, 2+ hour ago (381+ words) Traditional preclinical models are struggling to keep pace with a new generation of targeted therapies. As regulators embrace new approach methodologies (NAMs), vascularised tissue platforms are offering a more human-relevant approach to predicting drug efficacy and safety. These are not…...
AI platform identifies synergistic herbal medicine combinations for complex diseases
1+ week, 5+ day ago (383+ words) The new platform, known as Herb Syner_Finder, was created by a research team led by Professor Yinyin Wang and Professor Ninghua Tan. The system is designed to tackle one of the biggest challenges in herbal medicine research: identifying beneficial ingredient combinations…...
Machine learning identifies biological signals linked to emotional hunger in obesity
2+ week, 3+ hour ago (1044+ words) Researchers at Phenomix Sciences are using machine learning and genetic risk scoring to investigate emotional hunger, an obesity phenotype linked to emotional and reward-driven eating behaviours. Dr Timothy O'Connor discusses how the approach could improve patient stratification, obesity research and…...
Metabolic vulnerabilities identified in rare Fibrolamellar liver cancer
1+ week, 5+ day ago (11+ words) Drug Target Review...