Nature - USA (2020-09-24)

genes, which is one of the more expensive parts of the process. Multigene editing to get around rejection issues and the need to ...

G enomics has revolutionized cancer research. Conventional classifica- tions of disease, in terms of which organs and tissues it ...

is revealing mechanisms that might lead to treatments that are effective against many mutations simultaneously, and protein anal ...

involved; this reduced T-cell destruction of melanoma cells. Activating this pathway might mean, therefore, that immunotherapy w ...

A man walks into a radiotherapy treat- ment room. It’s his tenth visit. Just as before, he lies on a table attached to a machine ...

when a form of radiation delivery called intensity-modulated radiation therapy (IMRT) became standard practice. In IMRT, the int ...

data. In 2017, a group at the University of Tübingen in Germany showed that it could use Elekta’s technology to overlay PET–CT i ...

T he legacy of a woman who died of cervi- cal cancer in 1951 epitomizes, in princi- ple, the promise of precision oncology. Rese ...

diverse populations. But achieving equity in cancer care requires more than just docu- menting genetic variants linked to ancest ...

TCGA samples were from Black people. But that proportion means that there are only about 50 samples from Black people per tumour ...

S ince chemotherapy was first used to treat cancer in the 1940s, tumours have been tackled according to their organ or tissue of ...

Testing revealed Vogelstein’s hypothesis to be correct. The drug that had been used, nivolumab, works by inhibiting a protein fo ...

says Julia Chisholm, a paediatric oncologist at the Royal Marsden’s Oak Centre for Children and Young People in Sutton, UK. Desp ...

Craig Tendler: Real-world potential Data from electronic health records and medical-insurance claims can tell researchers how dr ...

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index On the cover Composite of Beijing, Shanghai, and New York city skylines Cover images: Getty Images Science cities Editoria ...

0 300 600 900 1,200 1,500 Non-collaborative 6.9% Chemistry Life sciences Physical sciences Share by sector (%)* Healthcare 1.3% ...

0 300 600 900 1,200 1,500 Non-collaborative 9.6% Chemistry Life sciences Physical sciences Share by sector (%)* Healthcare 10.3% ...

W hen Zhu Dongqiang moved from Nanjing to Beijing five years ago, he continued applying for joint grants with his former colleag ...

Beijing was home to 40% of CAS’s research capacities and more than half of its top-level research outputs. A ‘Future Science Cit ...