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Science Sparks @ ACTREC
Date Image 2 October 2023 Vol. No. 12; Issue No. 598
Publications

1. Madkaiker D, Hiregoudar SS, Chavan P, Ojha S, Mendes J, Shastry S (2023). 'Ironing out the risk': Assessing the effect of plateletpheresis donation frequency on iron stores in South-Asian male donors. Vox Sanguinis.

2. Joshi S, Ramarajan L, Ramarajan N, Lee SS, Deshpande O, Fernandes E, Engineer M, Srivastava G, Vanmali V, Kannan S, Hawaldar R, Nair N, Parmar V, Thakkar P, Chitkara G, Gupta S, Badwe R (2023). Effectiveness of a decision aid plus standard care in surgical management among patients with early breast cancer: A randomized clinical Trial. JAMA Network Open. 6(10):e2335941

Thesis
1. Abhay Uthale. 2023. Deciphering the role of Mcl-1 in stress and autophagy in oral cancers. (LIFE09201504011) (Guide: Dr. Tanuja Teni)

2. Abhiram Girish Natu. 2023. Understanding the role of epigenetic alterations in acquirement of chemoresistance in cancer. (LIFE09201604020) (Guide: Dr. Sanjay Gupta)

Site of the Week

VEuPathDB is a resource for genomic and large-scale data for eukaryotic pathogens and invertebrate vectors of disease.

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Interesting Reads

Maas RR, Soukup K, Fournier N, Massara M, Galland S, Kornete M, Wischnewski V, Lourenco J, Croci D, Álvarez-Prado ÁF, Marie DN, Lilja J, Marcone R, Calvo GF, Santalla Mendez R, Aubel P, Bejarano L, Wirapati P, Ballesteros I, Hidalgo A, Hottinger AF, Brouland JP, Daniel RT, Hegi ME, Joyce JA( 2023). The local microenvironment drives activation of neutrophils in human brain tumors. Cell.

Video of the Week
Announcement of the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology
Upcoming Events
AACR Special Conference In Cancer Research: Translating Cancer Evolution and Data Science: The Next Frontier

03-06 December, 2023

At Boston, Massachusetts.

San Antono Breast Cancer Symposium

05-09 December, 2023

At Texas.

ESMO Immuno-Oncology Congress 2023

06-08 December, 2023

At Geneva, Switzerland.

Do You Know?

In 2016, FDA accelerated approval to palbociclib with fulvestrant(Faslodex) to treat advance breast cancer that worsend following intial hormone therapy.

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Cancer News
Researchers Develop a Potential “Universal” CAR T-Cell Therapy for Blood Cancers

27 September 2023, National Cancer Institute

Developed by a research team at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, the treatment relies on a newer form of the gene-editing technology CRISPR, called base editing...

New cancer implant technology could slash deaths by 50 per cent

02 October 2023, The Tribune

HAMMR, which is small enough to be implanted with minimally invasive surgery, will monitor cancer and accordingly adjust immunotherapy dose in real time, like a glucose monitor...

Host genetics helps explain childhood cancer survivors' mortality risk from second cancers

02 October 2023, MedicalXpress

The St. Jude group showed that survivors with pathogenic (damaging) genetic variants in specific genes, called cancer-predisposing variants, are at an increased risk of developing second (subsequent) cancers as adults, and those cancers are more likely to be severe and deadly...

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