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Breaking the Stroma Barrier: Study Shows a New Way to Hit Cancer with Radiation
Chemotherapy and radiation therapy are commonly used to treat cancer, but are not always effective and can have toxic side effects. Researchers at Osaka ...
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2019
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Breakthrough alpha-ray treatment of cancer without external radiation
Radioactive iodine has been used for treatment of thyroid cancer. However, some thyroid tumors become resistant to iodine treatment. An Osaka University ...
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2019
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Breakthrough in study of how epithelial cells become cancerous
Researchers from Osaka University have shown that the oncogene-encoded molecule Src is responsible for epithelial cells developing invasive potential and ...
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2022
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Breast cancer gene a potential target for childhood liver cancer treatment
Hepatoblastoma is a rare liver cancer that mainly affects infants and young children and is associated with mutations in the β-catenin gene. Researchers from ...
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2019
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Cancer Cells Distinguished by Artificial Intelligence-based System
A research team at Osaka University created a system that uses a convolutional neural network to learn the features distinguishing different cancer cells, ...
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2018
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Getting things under control: new mouse model aids study of immunomodulation
Mice are resistant to immunomodulatory drugs (IMiDs). As a result, studying the effects of IMiDs was not possible in existing types of mice. Here, an Osaka ...
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2018
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Hematopoietic Stem Cells: Making Blood Thicker than Water
An Osaka University-led team revealed that Ragnase-1 is a key regulator of the self-renewal and differentiation of hematopoietic stem and progenitor cells. ...
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2019
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Immunotherapy and Diabetes: A Game of Hide and Seek?
Immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) are emerging as an effective treatment for certain cancers, but in rare cases can cause autoimmune diseases. Researchers at ...
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2019
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Interregional differences in somatic genetic landscape diversify prognosis in glioblastoma
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2019
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Japanese researchers find why Alzheimer’s drugs work in the lab but not in patients
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2017
