Cancer research

There has been a shocking revelation in a report published in Science Translational Medicine by Bengt Westermark, a tumour biologist at Uppsala, who reports that a cell line widely used to study brain cancer does not match the cells used to create the line nearly 50 years ago, or the tumour supposed to be its source...

Cancer has gripped the world in its clutches, and the grip hasn’t loosened for the past 3 decades. Research into cancer prognosis and treatment has many hurdles, and these hurdles keep on increasing with increasing insight to the disease itself. In terms of glioblastoma as well, the researchers have not had much suc...