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Distinct cellular and genetic differences in colorectal cancer in young patients

2 hours ago dana-farber.org cancer genetics

Study used genetically engineered live bacteria that act as tumor GPS to boost immune responses and enhance the effects of cancer immunotherapy

2 years ago dana-farber.org cancer

Antibiotic Novobiocin found to kill tumor cells with DNA-repair glitch - "An antibiotic developed in the 1950s and largely supplanted by newer drugs, effectively targets and kills cancer cells with a common genetic defect."

5 years ago dana-farber.org cancer genetics

'Honest' placebo trial conducted by Harvard researchers show that even when cancer patients know they are taking a placebo pill, it still significantly improves their fatigue - highlighting the amazing power of the mind/body connection

8 years ago dana-farber.org cancer trial

A personal cancer treatment vaccine that targets distinctive “neoantigens” on tumor cells has been shown to stimulate a potent, safe, and highly specific immune anti-tumor response in melanoma patients, report scientists from Dana-Farber Cancer Institute…

9 years ago dana-farber.org cancer vaccine

Immune response to flu vaccine linked to recipients' ethnic background

10 years ago dana-farber.org vaccine

Scientists unravel mystery of brain cell growth: How a single protein can exert both a push and a pull force to nudge a neuron in the desired direction is a longstanding mystery that has now been solved by scientists

12 years ago dana-farber.org brain