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3D-printed mini-tumours: a leap forward in improving cancer immunotherapy 03 September 2024Leiden researchers have developed a groundbreaking model to advance cancer immunotherapy. Using a 3D printer, they create mini-tumors within an enviro...
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'There's nothing more we can do for you': new publication on harmful communication in oncology 23 January 2024PhD student Janine Westendorp and her colleagues conducted literature research on what patients with cancer and their loved ones perceive as harmful c...
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New protein inhibitors against cancer? Unilever Research Prize for Aukje Beers 01 December 2023Aukje Beers combined theory and practice, as well as chemistry, biology, and computer models. In this way, she discovered two protein inhibitors durin...
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Sebastian Pomplun joins Oncode Institute to accelerate breakthroughs in cancer research 06 November 2023Sebastian Pomplun manages to reach proteins with drugs even where this was thought impossible. That is why he and his research group have been allowed...
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Promising new technique to treat cancer receives NWO grant 26 September 2023Biological chemist Nathaniel Martin and his team received an NWO grant to examine how blocking a specific enzyme in our body, NNMT, could be helpful i...
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Oncode Accelerator launched: patients at the centre of innovative cancer drug development 08 September 2023Providing each cancer patient with the right treatment remains a challenge. Oncode Accelerator aims to change this by innovating the way we develop ca...
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Heavy metals have a bad reputation but they also cure cancer 05 September 2023Many people think heavy metals are poisonous and always harm people and the environment. The reality is more nuanced, says Professor Sylvestre Bonnet....
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Chemotherapy without side effects? It’s possible, with light 29 June 2023Nausea, neurologic pain and hair loss: some of the severe side effects of chemotherapy. Not necessary, biochemist Liyan Zhang showed. Together with Le...
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Fighting cancer with light (and a drug that self-assembles into nanoparticles) 10 May 2023Chemotherapy that does not harm the body, but effectively fights cancer cells: that is the goal of chemist Sylvestre Bonnet and his team. During his P...
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How oxygen deprivation causes cancer cells to spread 03 March 2023In breast cancer, metastasis rather than the primary tumour is the cause of death. A lack of oxygen in the tumour cells promotes this metastasis, acco...
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Specialised immune cells have potential for new cancer immunotherapies 12 January 2023Researchers from Leiden University Medical Center (LUMC) and Netherlands Cancer Institute (NKI) have discovered how specialised immune cells can detec...
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Life after the Grand Jamboree: Wrapping-up iGEM 10 November 2022‘A challenging rollercoaster, but also a very bonding and insightful experience,’ that’s how the team of iGEM Leiden 2022 wraps up their participation...
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More attention needs to be paid to prevention in the fight against cancer 10 November 2022On 11 November Professor of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Monique van Leerdam will deliver her inaugural lecture entitled, ‘Aiming for Prevention’....
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‘Cancer treatment should be a six-week life event’ 10 October 2022When internist Christian Blank made his very first discovery, his field of immunotherapy was the underdog of cancer research. Now, over 20 years later...
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From discovery to business: 'In the lab, we often don't realise that we are working to help an immense number of patients' 06 October 2022'It gave our team a big boost to hear that our work was valuable,' says medical chemist Elmer Maurits about the moment they won the Venture Challenge....