The researchers who built the program at the Georgia Institute of Technology would like cancer fighters to take it for free, or even just swipe parts of their programming code, so they’ve made it open source

Coinciding with the second anniversary of the breakthrough patient-driven research movement, this first of many data releases aims to accelerate progress in metastatic breast cancer research

The production of healthy red blood cells is critical for those with acute myeloid leukemia but is sometimes overlooked as conventional treatments focus on killing the leukemia cells alone

"Your mother always told you to eat your vegetables, and science now tells us she was right,” researcher says

The tiny drug-infused particles, researchers say, potentially offer a less toxic clinical alternative to standard chemotherapy delivered intravenously or through a catheter inserted into the bladder

Scientists believe that developing drugs that act on multiple targets, called a polypharmacology approach, may more effectively treat those cancers that have a network of alterations

The new treatment approach was directed against acute myeloid leukemia cells but may also have potential for attacking other types of cancers

HPVs are responsible for the majority of cervical cancer and a substantial portion of head and neck and anal cancers, but therapy available to date is surgery and non-specific chemotherapy

New approach blocks key growth enzyme as well as the process that causes resistance to current treatments

Model could pave the way for better, more efficient, and reliable tests of drugs to treat brain diseases