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Searchresult: Breast cancer: altered chromosomes lead to treatment resistanceBreast cancer: altered chromosomes lead to treatment resistance Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 26.02.2020
If chromosomes are unevenly distributed or otherwise altered during cell division, this normally damages the daughter cells and impairs their viability. Not in cancer cells, however, in which…
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Searchresult: German Cancer Prize awarded to Andreas Trumpp
Last update: : 19.02.2020
Identifying cancer stem cells in different types of cancer, finding their weak points, and using these results to counter the spread of tumors and curb their resistance to treatment are the goals…
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Searchresult: Using oxygen to make cancer visible
Last update: : 18.02.2020
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center have developed a new method that uses oxygen to identify brain tumors more effectively by magnetic resonance tomography (MRT). To do so, they rely on…
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Searchresult: The most comprehensive map to date of the cancer genome publishedThe most comprehensive map to date of the cancer genome published Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 05.02.2020
The great hope of precision oncology is to be able to recommend effective drugs to cancer patients based on an analysis of their tumor genome. Recommendations like these must draw on careful…
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Searchresult: Traces of immortality in tumor DNA
Last update: : 05.02.2020
To gain an infinite lifespan, cancer cells need to maintain the ends of their chromosomes, known as telomeres. They achieve this in various different ways. Scientists from the German Cancer Research…
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Searchresult: Viruses and cancer – systematic overview published
Last update: : 05.02.2020
Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center systematically investigated the DNA of more than 2,600 tumor samples from patients with 38 different types of cancer to discover traces of viruses –…
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Searchresult: Appreciating the value of science
Last update: : 21.01.2020
By creating the new position of Chief Innovation Officer (CIO), the German Cancer Research Center is helping to ensure that research results find their way to clinical application – and to…
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Searchresult: Ana Banito awarded for her research on soft tissue sarcomasAna Banito awarded for her research on soft tissue sarcomas Press release content type: Press release
Last update: : 15.01.2020
Ana Banito, scientist at the German Cancer Research Center (DKFZ) and the Hopp Children's Cancer Center Heidelberg" (KiTZ) received the Award of the Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and…
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Searchresult: How dying cells prevent dangerous immune reactions
Last update: : 09.01.2020
Dying cells in the body can keep the immune system in check, thus preventing unwanted immune responses against the body's own tissues. Scientists of the German Cancer Research Center (Deutsches…
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Searchresult: 3D atlas of the bone marrow - in single cell resolution
Last update: : 23.12.2019
Stem cells located in the bone marrow generate and control the production of blood and immune cells. Researchers from EMBL, DKFZ and HI-STEM have now jointly developed new methods to reveal the…
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