Tag: Lymphoma

• New targeted epigenetic therapy for lymphoma shows promise

  New compounds targeting epigenetics have shown promise in treating patients with lymphoma, according to data presented at the Targeted Anticancer Therapies International Congress 2018 in Paris, France. ESMO’s phase-I oncology meeting featured early clinical studies with BET inhibitors and EZH2 inhibitors. Dr. Anastasios Stathis, head of the New Drugs Development Unit of the Oncology Institute…

  Sreeram Penna

  March 5, 2018

• 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:…

  Sreeram Penna

  January 4, 2017