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How non-cancerous cells in pancreatic cancer may weaken the immune system’s response
12th December 2024
New research sheds light on how certain non-cancerous cells in pancreatic cancer can affect the body’s natural immune defences and could have a significant impact on patients’ survival.
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Professor Sarah McClelland awarded £1.5m from CRUK to study cancer’s chromosomal chaos
25th November 2024
Congratulations to Professor Sarah McClelland, who has received a £1,500,000 Programme Foundation Award from Cancer Research UK (CRUK), to support her lab’s work at Barts Cancer Institute (BCI), Queen Mary University of London.
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New study suggests promising approach for treating pancreatic cancer
18th October 2023
Researchers have pinpointed the cells that drive the spread of pancreatic cancer and revealed a weakness in these cells that could be targeted using existing cancer drugs.
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How cancer cells shapeshift to spread through the body
23rd August 2023
Researchers show how cancer cells rearrange their inner workings to squeeze between obstacles
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BCI researcher receives prestigious MRC grant to investigate how HPV infection develops into cancer
27th May 2022
Dr Sarah McClelland from BCI is part of a collaborative project that has secured £1.2 million in funding from the Medical Research Council to investigate the mechanisms leading to cancer development in cells infected with human papillomavirus.
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Cancer cell communications
12th March 2021
We spoke with Dr Susana Godinho, Group Leader in Barts Cancer Institute’s Centre for Cancer Cell and Molecular Biology, to find out about her recent paper published in Current Biology. Dr Godinho and her team set out to identify why cancer cells carrying extra centrosomes exhibit increased release of communications packages known as small extracellular vesicles.
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