CancerLabNews & EventsTumours
New drug that breaks down the ‘barbed wire’ around some cancers
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cancer, Lab, News & Events, TumoursPerth researchers discover way to enhance immune response and drug treatment of stiff, difficult-to-treat solid cancers Some solid tumours are so stiff they make a cracking noise when they are…
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Researchers uncover new sarcoma gene
By Alicia Bienkowski | Cancer, Cell Signalling, Genes, News & Events, SarcomaA team of WA researchers has uncovered new genes that could play an important role in the development of sarcoma, a group of rare bone, muscle and connective tissue cancers.…
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Brain & Breast Cancer Collaborative Grant Recipient Announced
By Alicia Bienkowski | Brain, Breast Cancer, Cancer, Cancer Epigenetics, Genes, News & Events, ResearchProject led by Associate Professor Pilar Blancafort will be co-funded by an $890,000 investment from Cure Brain Cancer Foundation and National Breast Cancer Foundation. Top researchers from the fields of…
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Latest DNA sequencing technology arrives in Perth
By Marlin Communications | Cancer, Disease Area, Genetics, Lab, News & Events, Research, Research Area, Systems Biology and GenomicsA high capacity Illumina NovaSeq 6000 next generation DNA sequencer has arrived at the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research as part of the Australian Cancer Research Foundation (ACRF) Centre…
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WA’s first pre-pregnancy screening program for genetic diseases
By Marlin Communications | Cancer, Cancer and Cell Biology, Disease Area, Genetic Disease, News & Events, Research, Research AreaScreening offered for over 450 debilitating genetic conditions For the first time in WA a screening program that can detect more than 450 disease genes is being offered to couples…
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Revolutionary new view of how living cells make energy
By Marlin Communications | Cancer, Diabetes, Disease Area, Heart, Lab, Mitochondrial Medicine and Biology, Molecular Medicine, News & Events, Research, Research AreaJust as cars need fossil fuels to power their engines, the living cells that make up our bodies use food as a fuel source. To harness the energy in food…
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New way to examine how medicines act on cells
By Marlin Communications | Cancer, Chronic Kidney Disease, Disease Area, Lab, Molecular Endocrinology and Pharmacology, Molecular Medicine, News & Events, Research, Research AreaUsing a genome editing technique called CRISPR/Cas9, the researchers attached a super-bright glowing molecule, derived from deep sea shrimp, to specific molecules important for signalling in cancer cells, ‘receptors’. Receptors…
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Ground-breaking new study doubles the estimate of our functional genes
By Marlin Communications | Cancer, Cancer and Cell Biology, Disease Area, Genes, Lab, News & Events, Research, Research Area, Systems Biology and GenomicsThe findings, published in Nature, were the latest work of the FANTOM5 consortium, a group of researchers from Japan and Australia led by Professor Alistair Forrest from the Perkins and The University of…
