Search results for cancer radiotherapy

Molecular & Computational biology Jun 8, 2026

Peptide blocks DNA breaks tied to treatment-induced leukemia, offering new prevention route

Thanks to effective therapies, more and more people are now able to live with or after cancer in the long term. Consequently, the number of patients affected by the long-term effects of their treatment is also increasing. ...

Biochemistry May 26, 2026

Metal-free method unlocks selective carborane editing for cancer therapy and sensors

Carboranes are molecules composed of carbon, boron and hydrogen atoms that are proving to have applications of great interest in chemistry, materials science and biomedicine. They are being used, for example, in the fight ...

Bio & Medicine May 13, 2026

Molecular grappling hooks improve cancer drug targeting and effectiveness

Medications are designed to treat diseased tissues while sparing healthy ones, often by attaching the drug to something that helps guide it directly to its target. But drugs also need time to work, which means they need to ...

General Physics May 1, 2026

Proton beam timing tool could check radiotherapy energy before nearly every treatment

Proton beams are not only used in sophisticated nuclear physics experiments. Today, they are becoming increasingly popular in radiotherapy, where they are an irreplaceable tool for destroying cancer cells. Doctors and physicists ...

Biochemistry Apr 13, 2026

A counterintuitive molecular behavior opens new possibilities for cancer radiotherapy

A new study led by researchers at the Institute of Materials Science of Barcelona (ICMAB-CSIC) reveals why a particular boron-rich molecule, called o-FESAN, behaves in an unusually helpful way, remaining intercalated into ...

Cell & Microbiology Apr 7, 2026

This protein helps cancer cells survive treatment—and points to new treatments

Researchers at Umeå University have contributed new insights into how cancer cells protect themselves from cell death. The study provides a deeper understanding of how key proteins interact within the cell and could, in the ...

Materials Science Mar 17, 2026

Targeted alpha therapy: One compound holds promise for unified cancer care

ORNL is a leader both in developing advanced radiotherapies and in providing the radioisotopes needed for those therapies. According to Karen Sikes, director of the National Isotope Development Center, the lab is home to ...

Space Exploration Dec 10, 2025

Cosmic trip could help bacteria keep future space missions safe from radiation

A new research collaboration that fuses fashion and science is set to send bacteria into space—and the outcomes could create radiation-sensitive fabrics capable of preventing skin cancer on Earth and protecting space explorers ...

General Physics Nov 18, 2025

Hollow glass fiber sensors withstand extreme radiation in particle accelerator tests

A slender glass fiber no thicker than a human hair placed across a particle beam could improve accelerator monitoring. A team is testing the use of hollow-core optical fibers to measure the profile and position of the beams ...

Space Exploration Nov 3, 2025

Mission to Mars: How space exploration pushes the human body to its limits

On January 14, 2004, the United States announced a new "Vision for Space Exploration," promising that humans would not only visit space but live there. Two decades later, NASA's Artemis program is preparing to return astronauts ...

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