Drugs against alpha-ketoglutarate may combat deadly childhood brain tumor
NIH funded pre-clinical study highlights intricate links between brain tumors and cancer cell metabolism. Read more:...
Aug 24, 2020
New drug may provide hope for children with untreatable cancers
"The experimental drug, known as 9-ING-4, targets a specific protein that seems to be active in many different types of cancer." Read...
Jul 24, 2020
Despite failures, chemo still promising against dangerous childhood brain cancer, DIPG
"The reason chemotherapy has been ineffective against DIPG is most likely the fact that we haven't found the right chemotherapy yet."...
Mar 27, 2020
Two-Drug Combo Shows Promise in Treating Childhood Brain Cancers
Researchers have tested a new drug combination that shows promise for the treatment of several types of childhood brain cancers known as...
Nov 25, 2019
ICR forms collaboration with AI drug discovery company to develop new possible treatments in rare ch
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London, are working with Healx, a biotech company specialising in artificial intelligence...
Oct 4, 2019
New treatment could become first targeted therapy designed for 'untreatable' childhood brain
A new type of drug that targets a genetic weakness in an untreatable childhood brain cancer could become the first ever treatment...
May 16, 2019
New hope for treating childhood brain cancer
Recent experiments in animal models of the disease have identified an experimental drug that effectively destroys DIPG cells. And a team...
Apr 9, 2019
Research reveals machinery of a deadly childhood brain cancer
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital scientists have mapped the effects of aberrant biological machinery that drives a deadly brain...
Dec 28, 2018
New study discovers inhibitors of protein linked to the devastating childhood brain cancer DIPG
Scientists at The Institute of Cancer Research, London in collaboration with a team at the Structural Genomics Consortium in Oxford (SGC)...
Oct 17, 2018
Pre-clinical data suggests Noxopharm’s anti-cancer drug can boost radiation effect on paediatric bra
Pre-clinical data has confirmed Noxopharm’s (ASX: NOX) experimental idronoxil anti-cancer drug can boost the killing effect of radiation...
Jul 6, 2018