The American Society of Human Genetics (ASHG) annual meeting 2016 hosted esteemed scientists with a broad array of specialties. The Science Explorer sat in on session #37 on Thursday the 20th of October, and learned about some fascinating new research in the world of hereditary cancer diagnostics. Read the full coverage over at The Science Explorer!…
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New hope for triple negative breast cancer patients
Triple negative breast cancer is difficult to treat because it lacks the receptors that would allow it to respond to many of the drugs used for other forms of breast cancer. However, for the first time, a new drug candidate has been designed using genetic sequencing to specifically trigger tumour cells into killing themselves, leaving healthy cells…
New cancer therapies – Should we wait for peer review?
Having just lost my father to metastatic prostate cancer, I was very intrigued by the potential new cancer therapy that was all over the news just 2 days ago. If you haven’t caught up with the news yet, the new therapy, using modified white blood cells that were extracted from cancer patients, grown up in…
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