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Science Sparks @ ACTREC
Date Image 29th September 2025 Vol. No. 14 ; Issue No.702
Publications

1. Janu A, Kulkarni S, Joshi A, K S, Shetty N, Prabhash K, Bhosale S (2025). Incidence and predictors of acute pulmonary embolism in patients with cancer referred for computed tomography pulmonary angiography. International Journal of Cardiovascular Imaging.

2. Banerjee S, Shende SS, Kata L, Lopes RS, Praveen S, Joshi R, Khare NK, Raghuram GV, Shabrish S, Mittra I (2025). Horizontally transferred cell-free chromatin particles function as autonomous 'satellite genomes' and vehicles for transposable elements within host cells. Elife.

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dbVar is NCBI's database of human genomic Structural Variation — large variants >50 bp including insertions, deletions, duplications, inversions, mobile elements, translocations, and complex variants

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Interesting Reads

DeMichele A, Clark AS, Shea E, Bayne LJ, Sterner CJ, Rohn K, Dwyer S, Pan TC, Nivar I, Chen Y, Wileyto P, Berry LR, Deluca S, Savage J, Makhlin I, Pant DK, Martin H, Egunsola A, Mears N, Goodspeed BL, Chislock EM, Graves J, Wang J, Shih N, Belka GK, Berry D, Nayak A, Feldman M, Chodosh LA (2025). Targeting dormant tumor cells to prevent recurrent breast cancer: a randomized phase 2 trial. Nature Medicine.

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In 1997, FDA approved Rituxan (rituximab), the first monoclonal antibody, to treat non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma.

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Cancer News
Key driver of pancreatic cancer spread identified.

MedicalXpress, 24/09/2025

New research published in the journal Molecular Cancer reveals that a biological receptor called ALK7 is responsible, by activating two interconnected pathways that work in tandem...

Patient-derived organoids advance cancer therapy and vaccines.

News-Medical, 25/09/2025

Organoids are cultivated from patient tumor tissues or stem cells, faithfully reproducing the genetic mutations and microenvironments of the original tumors. Their strength lies in preserving heterogeneity: in colorectal and gastric cancers, organoid drug response testing...

Uptake of DNA fragments from dying cells could redefine mammalian evolution and genomics.

Eurekalert, 25/09/2025

In their study, Professor Mittra’s team extracted cell-free chromatin particles from human serum and introduced them into mouse cells grown in the lab. These particles were readily absorbed by the cells, where they indiscriminately fused together into large...

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