Surupa Chakraborty, Amity University, Kolkata “The longer your telomeres, the better off you are”, remarkedElizabeth H. Blackburn, an eminent biologist and the Nobel Prize (2009) awardee for the remarkable discovery of how chromosomes are protected by telomeres and the enzyme telomerase. Insight into the fountain of youth: Telomeres are specialized minuscule molecular structures made from […]
Aqsa, Jamia Millia Islamia Cancer is a disease in which cells of the body grow abnormally and uncontrollably. Until now, there is still no permanent cure for cancer, but getting treatment for cancer might allow you to live for a certain period. Research for the cure of cancer has been underway for about 100 years […]
Vaishnavi Kardale, Bioinformatics Centre, Savitribai Phule Pune University Our cells divide for growth. Cancer starts when the growth of the cells gets out of control. Any cell can become cancerous at any stage and any age. Cancer development can begin even in fetal cells. What is Neuroblastoma? Neuroblastoma (NB) is a type of cancer that […]
Madhavi Bhatia, NIPER Guwahati Cancer is a disease that involves abnormal growth with the potential to spread to other parts of the body. There are various treatments available for cancer surgery, chemotherapy, immunotherapy, and radiotherapy. There is a higher risk of kidney cancer recurrence following surgery to remove tumours, but there is currently no treatment […]
Ananya Dutta, Bose Institute This is the aphorism of Memorial Sloan Kettering (MSK) Cancer Center, New York, USA. At MSK it is believed that immunotherapy is one of the most promising treatments to treat, cure, and eventually prevent cancer. Immunotherapy cradled from MSK about more than a century ago. William Coley (1893), a surgeon at […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata Scientists have come over a class of drugs utilized in the treatment of breast and ovarian cancer which might be effective in other types of diseases with inadequate treatment alternatives. These are called PARP inhibitors which have the potential to kill cancer cells carrying a defect in the Polybromo 1(PBRM1) […]
Husna, Amity University Kolkata Melanoma is the most serious type of skin cancer that occurs when the pigment-producing cells that give color to the skin become cancerous. Once it spreads, the disease is known as metastatic melanoma which generally occurs during stage III or stage IV. Metastatic melanoma is a very fatal disease and as […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata According to the scientists at Baylor College of Medicine, antiviral immune pathways in triple-negative breast cancers (TNBC) can be activated by therapeutics targeting RNA splicing along with the stimulation of tumour cell death. Around 10-20% of breast cancers are triple-negative, which signifies that they are negative not only for estrogen […]
Sayak Banerjee, Amity University Kolkata CAR T cells are genetically modified immune cells that have been engineered to recognize and invade tumor cells. The immune T cells are collected and modified in the laboratory to generate finely-tuned chimeric antigen receptor, which identifies a distinctive protein on the surface of the patient’s cancer cells. The modified […]
PRAGYA SANTRA, AMITY UNIVERSITY KOLKATA The history of cancer research has always been a mystery in the result. Recently it was reported that cancer cells adapted themselves to grow and proliferate in an inflammatory environment. ENPP1, a readily accessible molecule found on the surface of cancer cells plays a major role in this mechanism. Naturally, […]
