Category Research

Cancer-infecting virus ‘warms up’ cold tumors and improves immunotherapy

Cancer-infecting virus ‘warms up’ cold tumors and improves immunotherapy Equipping cancer-infecting, or oncolytic, viruses with tumor-inhibiting genetic cargo stimulates the immune system and helps immunotherapy to shrink or completely clear aggressive tumors in mice, according to a new study in…

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The new approach in cancer therapy with innovative mechanism-of-action for ferroptosis induction

The new approach in cancer therapy with innovative mechanism-of-action for ferroptosis induction A team of researchers led by Dr. Marcus Conrad from Helmholtz Munich discovered a novel anti-cancer drug, called icFSP1, which sensitizes cancer cells to ferroptosis. Ferroptosis is characterized…

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