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Published on November 14, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

KRASG12C inhibition drives anti-tumour immunity in lung cancer but combinations with anti-PD1 immunotherapy may only benefit ...

November 14, 2022, by Jesse Boumelha, Edurne Mugarza, Sophie de Carné Trécesson, Febe van Maldegem, Miriam Molina and Julian Downward Francis Crick Institute, London Jesse Boumelha works in Julian Downward’s lab at the Francis Crick Institute, where he was …

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Published on October 27, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

Annual Report to the Nation: Cancer deaths continue downward trend; modest improvements in survival for pancreatic cancer

Overall cancer death rates continued to decline among men, women, children, and adolescents and young adults in every major racial and ethnic group in the United States from 2015 to 2019, according to the latest Annual Report to the Nation on the Status of …

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Published on October 3, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

Monica Bertagnolli begins work as 16th director of the National Cancer Institute

NCI Director Dr. Monica Bertagnolli Monica M. Bertagnolli, M.D., started today as the 16th director of the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH). She is the first woman to hold the position of NCI director. Dr. …

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Published on September 22, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

A healthy lifestyle may help former smokers lower their risk of death from all causes

Healthy lifestyle recommendations include maintaining a healthy body weight, being physically active, eating a healthy diet, and limiting alcohol consumption. Credit: “Water bottle, apples, measuring tape and towel on white wooden background. Top view” by …

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Published on August 29, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

NCI study of tea drinkers in the UK suggests health benefits from black tea

Black tea can be part of a healthy diet. Credit: “Black tea and teapot” by eltpics. CC BY-NC 2.0. What A prospective study of half a million tea drinkers in the United Kingdom has shown that higher tea intake was associated with a modestly lower risk of …

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Published on August 24, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

Many types of leisure time activity may lower risk of death for older adults

Many types of physical activity may lower risk of death. Credit: “Pickleball-5” by Ron B. CC BY 2.0. What Older adults who participate weekly in many different types of leisure time activity, such as walking for exercise, jogging, swimming laps, or …

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Published on August 18, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

NCI awards $23 million to establish centers of excellence to study telehealth for cancer care

NCI, part of the National Institutes of Health, will award $23 million to four academic institutions to establish centers of excellence that will conduct research on the role of telehealth in delivering cancer-related health care, a practice that became …

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Published on July 6, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

The use of Molecular Docking as a ligand discovery tool; Can machine learning help the pursuit for ligands?

July 6, 2022, by Trent E. Balius and Megan Rigby Trent E. Balius is one of the developers of the UCSF DOCK software, which is a computational tool used to predict how a small molecule (ligand) binds a site on a protein (or other macromolecule). Trent leads …

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Published on May 18, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

Could CryoEM structures of neurofibromin lead the way to better therapeutic approaches for Neurofibromatosis type 1?

May 18, 2022, by Dom Esposito Dom Esposito has directed the Protein Expression Laboratory of the NCI’s Frederick National Lab since 2011, and currently leads the RAS Reagents Core, which provides DNA cloning, protein expression and purification, and …

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Published on March 24, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

Top-Down Proteomics Reveals the KRAS Proteoform Landscape in Colorectal Cancer

March 24, 2022 Neil Kelleher, PhD, Lauren Adams, PhD candidate, and Caroline DeHart, PhD Lauren Adams is currently a senior Ph.D. candidate in Neil Kelleher’s laboratory at Northwestern University. She combines the precision of top-down mass spectrometry …

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Published on February 22, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

Sin1: a novel RAS effector with isoform specificity

February 22, 2022 Pau Castel, PhD, and Dhirendra Simanshu, PhD Pau Castel is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at New York University School of Medicine. His research is focused on the study of oncoproteins in …

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Published on February 1, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

Simulating Ras: 30 years of progress

February 1, 2022 Chris Neale is a Staff Scientist at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico. His research focuses on computational drug discovery and membrane protein biophysics. The first crystal structures of Ras arrived more than thirty years …

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Published on January 20, 2022 - 12:00 GMT

RAS Initiative Leadership Change

January 20, 2022, by Sonia Hawkins, NCI Staff Christopher Kane, Ph.D. Program Officer for National Missions, Contracting Officer Representative On December 31, 2021, NCI RAS Initiative Program Officer, Dr. Sara Hook, left federal service to join the …

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Published on December 7, 2021 - 12:00 GMT

KRAS-related long noncoding RNAs in human cancers

December 7, 2021 Mahsa Saliani and Mohammad Reza Ahmadian, PhD Reza Ahmadian, a professor of Biochemistry & Molecular biology at the Heinrich-Heine University Düsseldorf, works on the molecular mechanisms of disease-related signaling pathways by (i) …

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Published on August 13, 2021 - 12:00 GMT

Tissue Health Prevails: KRAS Mutant Cells are Outcompeted from Adult Pancreas Tissues

August 13, 2021 William Hill, Ph.D., and Catherine Hogan Ph.D. This research was carried out at the European Cancer Stem Cell Research Institute, School of Biosciences, Cardiff University in UK where Catherine Hogan is Lecturer and Group Leader. This work …

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Published on July 7, 2021 - 12:00 GMT

A Spirit of Scientific Creativity and Excitement: Celebrating the Career of Dr. Jim Hartley

July 7, 2021 Dom Esposito earned his PhD in Biochemistry and Biophysics at Johns Hopkins University, and completed postdoctoral work in the Laboratory of Molecular Biology at the National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases. He worked …

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