Tag: Cancer Cell

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    New approach to slowing aggressive leukemia

    Compounds that degrade proteins and block cell growth developed by Harvard researchers hold promise as a treatment for more types of cancer.

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    Research assistants David Miyamoto (from left) and Nicole Curnutt work with Associate Professor Christina Woo
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    ‘We need to rethink how we are studying cancer metabolism’

    Insights into how cancer cells adapt and rewire their metabolism to achieve growth and survive was accompanied by a call for tools to study this on a nearly single-cell level, according to a new paper in Nature Communications.

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    Cancer cells
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    Tumor cells can prevent tumor spread

    A new study from Harvard-affiliated Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center finds that a group of little-explored cells in the tumor microenvironment likely serves as an important gatekeeper against cancer progression and metastasis.

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