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Updates every hour. Last Updated: 10-Nov-2025 03:11 ET (10-Nov-2025 08:11 GMT/UTC)

CNIO researchers create the “human repairome”, a catalogue of DNA “scars” that will help define personalized cancer treatments

Centro Nacional de Investigaciones Oncológicas (CNIO)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The human repairome, REPAIRome, will allow researchers around the world to rapidly check out how each of the 20,000 human genes affects DNA repair.

Created by researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO), it is published today in the journal Science.

The human repairome is ‘a powerful resource for the scientific community’, the authors write in Science. It has ‘implications for human health, including cancer treatment’.

It also allows progress ‘towards full control of CRISPR-Cas gene-editing technologies’, they add.

The repairome is ‘a platform for new discoveries,’ says CNIO researcher Felipe Cortés. It has already helped to detect new genetic mechanisms involved in kidney cancer.

Journal: Science
Funder: Agencia Española de Investigacion, European Regional Development Fund

Does early-life cellular activity influence cancer and aging?

University of Pennsylvania
Peer-Reviewed Publication

From the University of Pennsylvania, Mia Levine and Michael Lampson’s new research examines how telomere length is inherited, and how this can inform future genetic research in how cancer develops.

Journal: Current Biology
Funder: National Institutes of Health, University of Pennsylvania, National Research Foundation of Korea

Novel membrane gel from UCSB offers new tool for breast cancer research

University of California - Santa Barbara
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In 2020, right when Jane Baude was starting her Ph.D. research at UC Santa Barbara, she learned that a critical component of her experiment — the gel needed to grow and test mammary epithelial cells — wouldn’t be available for nearly a year because of pandemic-related production issues. So, she and her adviser, professor Ryan Stowers, decided to pivot: Baude would engineer her own gel to study cells.

Journal: Science Advances

Mapping RNA-protein 'chats' could uncover new treatments for cancer and brain disease

University of California - San Diego
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A technology that maps entire networks of RNA-protein interactions inside human cells could offer new strategies for treating diseases ranging from cancer to Alzheimer's.

Journal: Nature Biotechnology
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

Short-course radiation therapy after prostate surgery helps keep cancer from returning

University of California - Los Angeles Health Sciences
Peer-Reviewed Publication

UCLA investigators found that stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), a form of high-dose radiation delivered in just five sessions, after prostate surgery is safe and as effective as traditional, longer courses of radiation in preventing prostate cancer from returning.

Journal: European Urology
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense

ASTRO 2025 Highlights from MSK

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center
Reports and Proceedings

Learn about some of the exciting research that MSK doctors and scientists presented at the 2025 Annual Meeting of the American Society for Radiation Oncology.

Mayo Clinic research improves dense breast cancer screening and early detection

Mayo Clinic
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Early detection is key to breast cancer survival. But nearly half of all women in the U.S. have dense breast tissue, which can make detecting breast cancer difficult with a mammogram. Mayo Clinic researchers found that adding another test, called molecular breast imaging, or MBI, to a 3D mammogram improved the ability to find cancer in dense tissue by more than double.

Journal: Radiology

Sudan Ebola virus can persist in survivors for months, WSU study shows

Washington State University
Peer-Reviewed Publication

More than half of survivors of the Sudan Ebola virus still suffer serious health problems two years post-infection and the virus can persist in semen and breast milk for months after recovery, according to the first study examining the virus’s long-term effects.

Journal: BMC Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases, NIH/National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases

Clinical trial targets kidney cancer with internal radiation

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute
Reports and Proceedings

Researchers at London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI) have launched a Phase II clinical trial that aims to treat renal cell carcinoma (kidney cancer) by inserting microscopic beads filled with radiation directly into blood vessels surrounding cancerous tumours. The goal is to improve patient outcomes through a new treatment option.

Funder: Boston Scientific Corporation

The magnetic math of breast health

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Three graduate students in CSHL’s dos Santos lab have developed a tool called MaGNet to quickly measure changes in mouse mammary glands. This open-source technology can be used to study how hormonal changes affect mammary glands and may one day allow for earlier breast cancer diagnoses.

Journal: Journal of Mammary Gland Biology and Neoplasia
Funder: Pershing Square Sohn Cancer Research Alliance, Simons Foundation, CSHL-Northwell Health Alliance, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Cancer Institute, “la Caixa” Foundation

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