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AI Analysis of Tumor Genetics Predicts Drug Response

AI uses tumor genetics for prediction of treatment response
“Scientists at the University of California (UC) San Diego School of Medicine [MORE]

Ultrasound Implantable Allows Passage of the BBB

Implanted Ultrasound lets chemo access brain
“Researchers at Northwestern University have trialed an implanted ultrasound device in patients, which is used [MORE]

Implantable Pump for Brain Tumors

Implantable pump drip-feeds chemotherapy directly into brain tumors
“Researchers at Columbia University and New York Presbyterian have developed an implantable pump [MORE]

More Accurate Dosing for Cancer Chemotherapy

Estimating glomerular filtration rate in patients with cancer
Dosing a cancer patient with carboplatin is a tricky business: too little can [MORE]

A Synthetic IL-9 vs. Radiation and Chemo

Killer T Cells surround a cancer cell
Collaborative work at several labs has “shown that a synthetic IL-9 receptor allows those [MORE]

Microbots that “Swim” Drugs to Tumors

Shape-morphing microrobots deliver drug to cancer cell
In “ a proof-of-concept study, [Chinese] researchers, reporting in ACS Nano, made fish-shaped microrobots [MORE]

Targeting Stem Cells in Treating Leukemia

Chemotherapy-free stem cell transplant for Leukemia
“In the new study, the researchers [at Washington University in St. Louis] developed a technique [MORE]

Cancer at the Stem Cell Level

New Technology Finds Hidden Cancer Cells
“Researchers from DTU and Copenhagen University are the first to show that protein analysis at [MORE]

Repurposing Drugs against Cancer

Repurposed medications
MAIN does not ordinarily carry drug-related news, but in this case, repurposing existing drugs to previously unknown targets really [MORE]

Smallest Multi-Sign Wearable Monitor

Multi-Vital ECG Sensor
An adhesive bandage about the width of a quarter and two dimes is a mind’s eye picture of [MORE]

Gene Mapping for Targeted Chemotherapy

Breast Cancer Cell
Anti-cancer chemotherapy originally derived from chemical warfare studies in 1942. Alfred Gilman and Louis Goodman discovered the effect [MORE]

More Accurate Dosing for Cancer Chemotherapy

Physiology of Nephron
Dosing a cancer patient with carboplatin is a tricky business: too little can be ineffective; too much and [MORE]

Ultrasound Triggered Chemotherapy

Nanoparticles Loaded with Chemotherapy
Quoting directly: “To improve the low efficacy and toxic side effects of chemotherapies that rely on this [MORE]

Local Activation of Chemotherapy

Tetrazine Explosion Diagram for DAinv
Anti-cancer drugs that only activate at a tumor site has been an area of pharmacology interest [MORE]