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26-Feb-2025

World first clinical trial will study specialized ‘poop pills’ to improve treatment of advanced pancreatic cancer

London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute
Business Announcement

Scientists at Lawson Research Institute (Lawson) of St. Joseph’s Health Care London and London Health Sciences Centre Research Institute (LHSCRI) are the first in the world to study fecal transplants using capsules containing microbes from the gut of healthy volunteers to improve the response of patients with advanced pancreatic cancer to chemotherapy.

26-Feb-2025

A protein from tiny tardigrades may help cancer patients tolerate radiation therapy

Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Drawing inspiration from the tardigrade, researchers developed a new strategy that may protect cancer patients from the side effects of radiation therapy.

Journal: Nature Biomedical Engineering
Funder: Prostate Cancer Foundation Young Investigator Award, U.S. Department of Defense Prostate Cancer Program Early Investigator Award, Hope Funds for Cancer Research Fellowship, American Cancer Society, National Cancer Institute, MIT’s Department of Mechanical Engineering, U.S. Advanced Research Projects Agency for Health

26-Feb-2025

Bacteria ‘leaking across stomach lining’ could indicate risk of gastric cancer, new study has found

University of Birmingham
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A pioneering study has revealed new insights into the role of gastric bacteria in stomach cancer development that could pave the way for a more effective treatment of pre-cancer according to a study published today in Helicobacter.

Journal: Helicobacter

26-Feb-2025

Colorectal cancer: Lipids can predict treatment efficacy

Université de Genève
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Colorectal cancer, the second most common cause of cancer-related death, affects almost 2 million people worldwide every year. It is mainly treated with chemotherapy, but its effectiveness decreases over time due to the progressive resistance of tumor cells. A team from the University of Geneva (UNIGE) has identified specific alterations in certain lipids in cancer cells resistant to chemotherapy. These lipid signatures could serve as prognostic markers for understanding resistance to treatment and pave the way for personalized, targeted strategies to restore drug sensitivity. This work is published in the International Journal of Molecular Sciences.

Journal: International Journal of Molecular Sciences

25-Feb-2025

Biological organ ages predict disease risk decades in advance

University College London
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Our organs age at different rates, and a blood test determining how much they’ve each aged could predict the risk of conditions like lung cancer and heart disease decades later, finds a new study led by UCL researchers.

Journal: The Lancet Digital Health
Funder: Wellcome Trust, Medical Research Council, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Academy of Finland

25-Feb-2025

New technique reveals how the same mutations give rise to very different types of leukaemia

Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona)
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A study from IRB Barcelona, funded by Fundación CRIS contra el cáncer demonstrates that the “previous state” of blood stem cells plays a decisive role in the subtype of leukaemia that develops.

The new technique, called STRACK, allows monitoring of the evolution of each cell before and after acquiring oncogenic mutations.

The study has been published in Cell Stem Cell.

Journal: Cell Stem Cell

25-Feb-2025

Adherence to the Mediterranean diet and obesity-linked cancer risk

JAMA Network
Peer-Reviewed Publication

The findings of this study indicate that higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet is associated with a modest reduction in the risk of obesity-related cancers, independent of adiposity measures. Further research is needed to clarify the mechanisms by which the Mediterranean diet may contribute to cancer prevention.

Journal: JAMA Network Open

25-Feb-2025

“Ultra-rapid” testing unlocks cancer genetics in the operating room

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A novel tool for rapidly identifying the genetic “fingerprints” of cancer cells may enable future surgeons to more accurately remove brain tumors while a patient is in the operating room, new research reveals.

Journal: Med
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health

25-Feb-2025

University of Houston researchers paving the way for new era in medical imaging

University of Houston
Peer-Reviewed Publication

New technology developed by researchers at the University of Houston could revolutionize medical imaging and lead to faster, more precise and more cost-effective alternatives to traditional diagnostic methods.

Journal: Journal of Medical Imaging

25-Feb-2025

Predicting infant risk of exposure to mother’s medication

University of Waterloo
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new mathematical model developed at the University of Waterloo can determine a baby’s overall drug exposure when their mother is taking medication. This is the first study to include drug transfer from the umbilical cord and through breastfeeding in determining the baby's total drug levels.

The research team from the School of Pharmacy at Waterloo looked specifically at Levetiracetam. It is a drug commonly prescribed long term for women with epilepsy, yet there was minimal data on the risk of adverse effects on breastfed infants.

Journal: Clinical Pharmacokinetics