Reading time: 5 minutes Nisitha Sengottuvel Cancer incites fear because of how sick it can make you and how deadly it can be. Even when cancer treatments succeed in curing a patient, the patient is still left with the aftermath of the cancer treatments. A good example of a cancer that has relatively good prognosis... Continue Reading →
DUBTACs: A new therapeutic approach targeting proteins for cancer treatment
Reading time: 4 minutes Rapon Félicités While the degradation of disease-causing proteins [1] is now possible thanks to targeted protein degradation (TPD) technologies such as PROTACs [2], new targeted protein stabilization (TPS) technologies called DUBTACs [3] have been designed to stabilize and restore proteins that may promote cell proliferation when aberrantly degraded. Tumor suppressing proteins... Continue Reading →
Post Mastectomy Choices: Exploring the Link Between Breast Implants and Cancer
Reading time: 5 minutes Nayela Chowdhury Breast cancer is a significant health concern affecting millions of people worldwide. In 2023, around 43,000 mortalities are projected to occur in the United States alone. Mastectomy is the primary curative therapy for breast cancer and involves the surgical removal of one or both of the breasts. Millions of... Continue Reading →
