- A recent post on the NIH Director’s blog showcased the video “Discovery Inside Living Cells in Multicellular Organisms” from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) lab of Roberto Weigert in the Center for Cancer Research, National Cancer Institute, and at the National Institute of Dental & Craniofacial Research. This video is the fulfillment, says Weigert, of every cell biologist’s dream–to watch living cells at work inside living tissue as they go about the business of keeping us alive.
- Researchers at the Children’s Hospital of Eastern Ontario Research Institute have found that a combination of drugs known as SMAC Mimetics and immune checkpoint inhibitors (ICIs) amplifies kill rates of cancer tumour cells in laboratory testing. The findings are reported in Nature Communications.
- Two recent studies published in JAMA illustrate how scalp cooling devices may help reduce hair loss for women receiving chemotherapy for breast cancer.