Tag: Lung-Cancer
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Sybil, a machine-learning model for lung cancer risk assessment
Researchers at MIT’s Abdul Latif Jameel Clinic for Machine Learning in Health, Mass General Cancer Center, and Chang Gung Memorial Hospital have developed an artificial intelligence tool named Sybil for lung cancer risk assessment. Sybil analyzes low-dose computed tomography (LDCT) image data without using clinical or demographic data to predict a patient’s risk of developing…
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Computer simulations help understand lung cancer drug resistance
Scientists from the Universities of Bristol and Parma, Italy, have used computer simulations to understand drug resistance to osimertinib. Findings of this study are published in journal Chemical Science. Osimertinib works by binding to epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), which is over expressed in many tumors. EGFR is involved in a pathway that signals for…
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Using ribosomal protein expression patterns as cancer biomarker
A research team at the University of Basel’s Biozentrum has investigated the expression of ribosomal proteins in a wide range of human tissues including tumors and discovered a cancer type specific signature. The study is reported in journal Genome Biology. Researchers think that these signature could be used for predicting progression and survival. Gene expression level of individual…
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Piperlongumine, chemical from Indian pepper plant inhibits enzyme in cancer cells
UT Southwestern Medical Center scientists have uncovered the chemical process behind anti-cancer properties of a spicy Indian pepper plant called the long pepper, whose suspected medicinal properties date back thousands of years. The study is published in the Journal of Biological Chemistry. Dr. Westover’s lab used X-ray crystallography to create this molecular model of piperlongumine.Credit:…
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New lung cancer biomarker Protein PD-1 for predicting survival
The biomarker PD-1, a protein, could potentially be used to predict survival or disease-free survival of lung cancer patients who have had the tumor surgically removed. This is substantiated by the results of a study conducted under the direction of the Comprehensive Cancer Center (CCC) of MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital, together with MedUni…
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Liquid biopsies for lung cancer could predict best treatment
A blood test could predict how well small-cell lung cancer (SCLC) patients will respond to treatment, according to new research published in Nature Medicine today. Scientists, based at the Cancer Research UK Manchester Institute at The University of Manchester, isolated tumor cells that had broken away from main cancer known as circulating tumor cells (CTCs)…
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Synthetic binding protein called "NS1 Monobody" found to inhibit common cancer causing (RAS) mutation
Monobody NS1 binds to H-RAS or K-RAS protein and blocksRAS function by disrupting the protein’s ability to form active molecular pairs. Credit: John P. O’Bryan, et al. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a new way to block the action of genetic mutations found in nearly 30 percent of all cancers. Mutations in…
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Synthetic binding protein called “NS1 Monobody” found to inhibit common cancer causing (RAS) mutation
Monobody NS1 binds to H-RAS or K-RAS protein and blocksRAS function by disrupting the protein’s ability to form active molecular pairs. Credit: John P. O’Bryan, et al. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago have identified a new way to block the action of genetic mutations found in nearly 30 percent of all cancers. Mutations in…
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Neoadjuvant immunotherapy using nivolumab prior to early lung cancer surgery is safe and feasible
Adapted from Press release by European Society for Medical OncologyNeoadjuvant immunotherapy with the PD-1 inhibitor nivolumab is safe and feasible prior to surgery for early lung cancer, researchers reported at the ESMO 2016 Congress in Copenhagen. Background “Until now nivolumab and the other anti-PD-1 and anti-PD-L1 drug studies have only been reported in metastatic or…
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