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CYTOKINES: DEADLY STORMS OF THE IMMUNE SYSTEM
The word “storm” might make you think of thunder and lightening, or maybe floods, tornadoes and hurricanes. These storms can cause a lot of damage and led to 2,143 injuries and 522 deaths in 2015. However, there is another kind of storm, a much deadlier storm, that in past, killed more people than WWII. This deadly storm is called a cytokine storm.
SYNTHETIC LETHALITY: A NEW ANGLE FOR CANCER THERAPY
Cancer is difficult to treat because it mutates quickly and frequently, enabling cancer cells to develop resistance to many therapies. However, scientists and doctors can take advantage of the many mutations in cancer using a concept called synthetic lethality.
DESIGNING DRUGS
Kinase inhibitors are one of the most common types of prescription drugs, but developing them is difficult and expensive. Using a new method, kinase inhibitors can be designed quickly and easily just by knowing the protein sequence!
BREAST CANCER - ONE DIAGNOSIS, MANY DIFFERENT DISEASES?
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in women and about a quarter of a million new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed this year. For many years previously, patients with breast cancer have been prescribed essentially the same blanket treatment for their cancer. However, “breast cancer” itself is not just one disease; patients who are diagnosed with breast cancer may have tumors that differ in many significant ways, including amount of aggression and sensitivity to drug treatments.