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Researchers from IIT Madras and Sankara Nethralaya have identified biochemical pathways that retinoblastoma (eye cancer) preferentially chooses for growth and survival. They found amino acids are a major source of…
IIT Kanpur-led team discovers the molecular mechanism by which a protein (EZH2) is produced in excess leading to a reduction in the levels of two microRNAs. This causes an oncogene…
Besides Australia, France, UK. Norway, Ireland, New Zealand and Hungary have introduced plain packaging of tobacco products. Plain packaging was will be introduced in Uruguay and Slovenia in 2019 and…
Researchers from IIT Delhi and IIIT Delhi have developed an algorithm that can find rare cells from a very large pool of cells in a matter of seconds. The new…
Dr. Amit Dutt of ACTREC-Tata Memorial Centre explains how progesterone administered prior to breast cancer surgery helps in reducing the chances of migration and invasion of cancer cells to other…
Tata Memorial Centre researchers have uncovered the mechanism by which a single injection of progesterone administered prior to breast cancer surgery helps in reducing the chances of cancer cell spread…
Dr. Amit Dutt from Tata Memorial Centre explains how the team using different approaches identified the mutations that cause gallbladder cancer. They found that a drug that is already in…
Researchers at Tata Memorial Centre have found that a drug used for treating colorectal cancer can be used for treating gallbladder cancer patients too. The researchers have not only found the…
