RNA-Based Therapy Shows Promise Against Aggressive Childhood Brain Tumors in Mice
Targeting a non-encoding stretch of RNA may help shrink tumors caused by an aggressive type of brain cancer in children, according to new...
Mar 27, 2024
Protein Associated With Neurodegenerative Diseases Found To Be Linked to Childhood Brain Cancer
A protein, extensively researched for its connection to neurodegenerative disorders like amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), is also...
Feb 21, 2024
Research potentially expands options for patients with aggressive childhood cancer
Research is shedding light and potentially expanding options for patients living with Medulloblastoma, an aggressive childhood cancer....
Jan 12, 2024
Brain tumors in children: Cancer cells become less aggressive as they migrate within the tumor, finds study
Certain brain tumors in small children contain cells that develop very similarly to normal brain cells and others that have already...
Jan 10, 2024
“DNA loops” in pediatric brain tumors double relapse risk
A study of newly created databases of medulloblastoma has found that patients with tumors containing circular extrachromosomal DNA—loops...
Nov 16, 2023
New Mutations Identified in Common Childhood Brain Cancers Could Guide Personalized Treatments
Using a new method, Swedish researchers have identified mutations in the noncoding regions of the human genome linked to the common...
Aug 14, 2023
New study uncovers key culprit behind pediatric brain cancer metastasis
New research pinpoints a key cause of metastasis from an aggressive form of brain cancer in children and provides a potential new therapy...
Mar 17, 2023
Understanding How Childhood Brain Tumors Develop
A team of scientists has identified a new cell type implicated in the development of the most common type of malignant childhood brain...
Jan 31, 2023
New drug combination may effectively treat often fatal childhood brain tumor
Researchers at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus and partners become first to treat MYC amplified Medulloblastoma on a...
Jan 17, 2023
McMaster University researchers pinpoint potential treatment for lethal childhood cancer
An enzyme that drives the growth of an often-lethal childhood brain cancer may hold the key to a future treatment, says a McMaster ...
Nov 11, 2022