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Category: Skin cancer

Posted on November 2, 2019November 2, 2019

Machine learning-based model can determine if skin cancer can spread

Using machine learning of 17 genomic signatures, researchers from IIIT Delhi and CSIR-IMTECH have developed a webserver called CancerSPP that will help clinicians in classifying cutaneous melanoma as either primary…

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Posted on August 18, 2018August 19, 2018

Social factors too determine skin colour of Indians

Researchers from CCMB and other international institutions have found that socio-cultural factors had a bigger influence on skin colour variation in Indians than genetics (6.4%) and environmental factors (16%). While the…

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Posted on July 18, 2018July 18, 2018

A new blood test could detect early stage melanoma in more than 80% of patients

Mel Ziman, Edith Cowan University   Melanoma kills more than 1,700 Australians every year, which is more than the national road toll. According to a 2017 study, the global incidence…

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Posted on January 13, 2018January 27, 2018

IGIB discovers a protein regulating melanoma growth, pigmentation

IGIB researchers have for the first time identified a calcium sensor protein (STIM1) that independently regulates both skin cancer and pigmentation. Since different parts of the STIM1 protein activate two independent signalling…

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Posted on October 21, 2017October 25, 2017

IIT teams use plant extract, heat to kill skin cancer cells

On being irradiated with near infrared light the dye gets heated up and facilitates the release of the extract from polymer membrane. After 4-5 minutes of irradiation about 80% of…

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Posted on September 23, 2017September 23, 2017

IGIB researchers reverse cancer drug resistance

Small molecules used along with anticancer drug makes cancer cells sensitive to the drug. Resistance to anticancer drugs is a major problem in oncology affecting a large number of cancer patients. Now, researchers at the…

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Posted on August 12, 2016August 14, 2016

Indian researchers use a novel drug to inhibit skin cancer in mice

Researchers at the Pune-based National Centre for Cell Science (NCCS) have been successful in isolating cancer stem cells that cause skin cancer. They have also been able to demonstrate that…

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Posted on January 19, 2016June 11, 2016

Less risk of skin cancer if exposed to UV radiation in the morning: Nobel Laureate Aziz Sancar

“If you really must go to a tanning booth, do it in the morning,” Aziz Sancar, from the University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, U.S., who shared the Nobel Prize…

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