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16-May-2025

Targeting cancer’s energy factory: Breakthrough nanotherapy fights hardest-to-treat breast tumors

Science China Press
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists have uncovered a key driver of triple-negative breast cancer (TNBC) progression—a metabolic enzyme called LPCAT1—and developed a targeted nanoparticle therapy to block it. By silencing LPCAT1, the treatment disrupts cancer cell energy production and halts tumor growth and lung metastasis in TNBC, the most aggressive breast cancer subtype. This breakthrough offers a promising new strategy for treating advanced TNBC, which currently has limited therapeutic options.

Journal: Science China Life Sciences

16-May-2025

A step closer to the confident production of blood stem cells for regenerative medicine

Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers from the Stem Cells and Cancer team at the Josep Carreras Leukaemia Research Institute and the Hospital del Mar Research Institute have developed a method to confidently produce blood cell precursors from stem cells in mice, by activating a set of seven key genes in the laboratory. The team, led by Dr. Anna Bigas, takes a step forward towards the production of precursor cells able to restore the bone marrow of blood cancer patients, in a successful example of regenerative medicine.

Journal: Blood

15-May-2025

City of Hope Research Spotlight, February/March 2025

City of Hope
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Research on diabetes, multiple myeloma, metastatic colorectal cancer, biomarkers for immunotherapy responses, heart health after pediatric cancer and a potential new treatment for chronic myeloid leukemia are highlighted in this spotlight

15-May-2025

American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) to host Annual Meeting in San Francisco, September 27-October 1

American Society for Radiation Oncology
Meeting Announcement

Registration opens today for the 67th American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) Annual Meeting, to be held at the Moscone Center in San Francisco, September 27 to October 1, 2025. Led by ASTRO President Sameer Keole, MD, FASTRO, the conference is centered around the theme of “Rediscovering Radiation Medicine and Exploring New Indications” and is expected to attract up to 10,000 oncologists, clinicians, researchers and other health care professionals from around the globe. ASTRO news briefings will feature noteworthy and high-impact research presented at the meeting; briefing details will be announced in early September.

Meeting: American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) 2025Annual Meeting

15-May-2025

UT MD Anderson and Texas Children’s Hospital announce $150 million gift from Kinder Foundation to launch Kinder Children’s Cancer Center

University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center
Business Announcement

The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children’s Hospital today announced a $150 million gift from Kinder Foundation. The transformational gift creates Kinder Children’s Cancer Center, a joint venture of UT MD Anderson Cancer Center and Texas Children’s Hospital, with a single mission: to end childhood cancer.

15-May-2025

Study reveals targetable mechanism behind high-risk predisposition gene in pediatric medulloblastoma

St. Jude Children's Research Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Scientists at St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital showed how inheriting a deficient ELP1 gene increases the risk of SHH-driven pediatric medulloblastoma and further revealed that MDM2 inhibitors can help stop it.

Journal: Cancer Cell

15-May-2025

How rearranged genes drive kidney cancer progression

Johns Hopkins Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

In findings from a study led by investigators at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center and the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, scientists report that they have learned how certain combinations of rearranged genes can promote the progression of a rare type of kidney cancer.

Journal: Cell Reports
Funder: Department of Defense Kidney Cancer Idea Development Award, National Institutes of Health National Institute of General Medical Sciences, National Cancer Institute, National Human Genome Research Institute, Jayne Koskinas Ted Giovanis, Johns Hopkins Provost Catalyst Award

15-May-2025

Allen Institute launches CellScapes initiative to transform our understanding of how human cells build tissues and organs

Allen Institute
Business Announcement

The Allen Institute today announced the launch of CellScapes, a bold new research initiative aimed at revolutionizing how scientists understand and predict the behavior of human cells as they work together to build tissues and organs. The goal: to uncover the rules and principles of how cells cooperate to make decisions in the body and provide scientists with the tools to predict—and even design—how cells behave together in health and disease.

15-May-2025

Shorter radiation therapy after prostate surgery safe, study finds

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

UCLA researchers found that stereotactic body radiotherapy (SBRT), a form of high-dose radiation delivered in just five sessions, is as safe as conventional treatment, with similar side effects and a similar impact on quality of life.

Journal: JAMA Oncology
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, U.S. Department of Defense

15-May-2025

Long-term survival in patients with low-risk cervical cancer after simple, modified, or radical hysterectomy

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

About The Study: In this cohort study, long-term survival was similar following simple hysterectomy vs modified radical hysterectomy or radical hysterectomy, supporting the use of simple hysterectomy in select patients with low-risk early-stage cervical carcinoma.

Journal: JAMA Network Open