In prostate cancer, reliable markers of disease status are important for selecting and monitoring treatment. Two recent studies have shown that increased levels of circulating cells predict worse ...

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the "germ cells" of breast cancer metastases. They are very rare and could not be propagated in the culture dish until now, which made research into therapy ...

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the germ cells ... A team from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Heidelberg Stem Cell Institute HI-STEM and the NCT Heidelberg has now ...

An existing cardiac drug has now been found to reduce the risk of metastasis by dissolving circulating ... ion pumps in the tumor cell membranes, which causes the cells to absorb too much calcium.

Successful test in breast cancer patients ... than 2,400 different substances in cell cultures to find active agents against clusters of circulating tumour cells (CTCs). In the next step, the ...

University of Michigan researchers developed a biolaser-based method to detect circulating tumor cells in pancreatic and lung cancer patients. By combining cell lasers with machine learning, the ...

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the ... Sprick, & Andreas Trumpp: Circulating tumor cell plasticity determines breast cancer therapy resistance via neuregulin 1–HER3 signaling ...

This is because the primary tumour continuously releases cancer cells ... substances in cell cultures to find active agents against clusters of circulating tumour cells (CTCs).

Every day, billions of our cells die quietly and in an orderly fashion by activating a cell suicide program known ... which harnesses the immune system to attack and kill the body’s own cells. In ...

In a study published today (October 20) in Science Translational Medicine, researchers show that these cells, the most abundant in circulation, also alert the immune system to the presence of bacteria ...

Tumor cells circulating in the blood are the "germ cells ... A team from the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ), the Heidelberg Stem Cell Institute HI-STEM and the NCT Heidelberg has now ...