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Researcher targets DNA repair vulnerabilities in female reproductive cancers

Tufts University

Unlike breast cancer, endometrial/uterine and ovarian cancers have few effective treatment options outside of surgery, and it’s not uncommon for these tumors to return after first-line chemotherapeutics.

Journal: Nature Communications
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH/National Institute of General Medical Sciences, NIH/National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences

New era in amphibian biology

Institute of Science and Technology Austria
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Amphibians hold a significant place in evolution, representing the transition from aquatic to terrestrial lifestyles. They are crucial for understanding the brain and spinal cord of tetrapods—animals with four limbs, including humans. A group of scientists led by a team at the Institute of Science and Technology Austria (ISTA) now shows how harmless viruses can be used to illuminate the development of the frog nervous system. The results have now been published in Developmental Cell.

Journal: Developmental Cell
Funder: U.S. National Science Foundation, FTI Strategy Lower Austria, HORIZON EUROPE European Research Council, Austrian Science Fund, NIH/National Institutes of Health

Brigham researchers find that intestinal infections change bile composition

Brigham and Women's Hospital
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Researchers have identified a new axis of host defense by studying what happens during enteric infection—a term that encompasses all types of intestinal infections including so called “stomach flu.”

Journal: Nature Microbiology
Funder: Massachusetts Host-Microbiome Center, NIH/National Institutes of Health, Howard Hughes Medical Institute

Moffitt study shows how cancer cell death may harm the immune system and promote tumor growth

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center & Research Institute
Peer-Reviewed Publication

A new study has uncovered an unexpected way cancer cells can escape the immune system, making it harder for treatments to work. The study, published in Cancer Cell, explains how a type of cancer cell death can actually make tumors grow faster by turning off the immune system’s ability to fight the cancer.

Journal: Cancer Cell
Funder: Swiss National Science Foundation Postdoctoral Fellowship, NIH/National Cancer Institute, Cancer Research Institute

Study details how cancer cells fend off starvation and death from chemotherapy

NYU Langone Health / NYU Grossman School of Medicine
Peer-Reviewed Publication

Laboratory experiments with cancer cells reveal two ways in which tumors evade drugs designed to starve and kill them, a new study shows.

Journal: Nature Medicine
Funder: NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health, NIH/National Institutes of Health