“Exploding Cancer Cells” Explained
By now many of you may have seen reports of a new ‘breakthrough’ in cancer research resulting in ‘exploding cancer cells’. These reports are in reference to a new study published in the journal...
Tagged: Cancer
Pub Talks: Cancer Signalling
I had the pleasure of chatting with Dr Shilpa Keerthivasan and Akinola Emmanuel about their recently published research on the Wnt signalling pathway. We cover the basics of how Wnt signalling functions in a...
Cancer Signalling: The Wnt Pathway
We are multi-cellular animals, and as such, our cells need to communicate with each other, so they can act in a coordinated manner in response to the environment. The basis of this communication comes...
Why Don’t Naked Mole Rats get Cancer?
Naked mole rats are the most fascinating of creatures. There are many reasons I say this, but today I want to focus on one particular feature about them that is just an amazing example...
“Sticky Balls” and Cancer Therapy
There have been several reports of a new ‘breakthrough’ cancer therapy that uses nanoparticles tagged with cancer killing proteins. What exactly does this mean, and how realistic is it to expect this treatment to...
The Hallmarks of Cancer: 7 – Genome Instability and Mutation
This article originally appeared on the Scientific American Guest Blog. The Hallmarks of Cancer focus on 10 underlying principles shared by all cancers. The seventh Hallmark is defined as genome instability and mutation. Cancer...
