Joana brings more than 8 years of academic research and experience as well as Scientific writing and editing to her role as a Science and Research writer. She also served as a Postdoctoral Researcher at the Center for Neuroscience and Cell Biology in Coimbra, Portugal, where she also received her PhD in Health Science and Technologies, with a specialty in Molecular and Cellular Biology.
Italian researchers have gained novel insight into molecules that contribute to the pathology of breast cancer, which can be used to design selective and effective anticancer drugs that help fight ... Read more
Syros Pharmaceuticals has enrolled the first patient in a Phase 1 clinical trial assessing the effectiveness and safety of SY-1365 as a treatment for patients with advanced solid tumors, such as ... Read more
The Imagio opto-acoustic imaging (OA/US) system does a good job of distinguishing benign from malignant breast tumors, according to a Phase 3 clinical trial. Seno Medical Instruments said its system, which combines laser ... Read more
The risk of developing breast cancer is similar between white and black women, but black women are 42 percent more likely to die from aggressive subtypes of the disease, according ... Read more
Women with HER2-positive early-stage breast cancer receiving adjuvant treatment with PB272 (neratinib) may experience severe diarrhea as a side effect, but other agents can control this, according to a new study. ... Read more
Afinitor (everolimus) may preserve fertility in women who are receiving chemotherapy to treat breast cancer, a study says. The research, “mTORC1/2 Inhibition Preserves Ovarian Function And Fertility During Genotoxic Chemotherapy,” ... Read more
Tumor-initiating cells, thought to give rise to cancer, are often associated with treatment resistance and disease recurrence. Now researchers have identified a protein, called G3BP2, that is essential to the ... Read more
Oxygen deprivation can activate a cell mechanism that prompts triple-negative breast cancer cells to migrate to other parts of the body, a finding that could lead to better treatments, a ... Read more
Biocept, in collaboration with Columbia University Medical Center, plans to conduct a clinical study to assess its Target Selector platform’s ability to diagnose leptomeningeal metastases (LM) in women with breast cancer. The study’s main objective ... Read more
Researchers are developing a model to predict which patients with triple negative breast cancer will respond to chemotherapy before the start of the treatment, according to a study recently presented ... Read more
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