All Posts: cancer
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Finding Liver Cancer Early and Reversing Its Course
Liver cancer is often lethal in humans because it is diagnosed in late stages, but new work in animal models has identified a potential diagnostic biomarker of the disease and a potential way to reverse the damage done.
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Mechanistic Insight into Immortal Cells Could Speed Clinical Use
WASHINGTON — The mechanistic understanding of the relatively new technique for growing cells in culture indefinitely – known as conditional reprogramming – has been deciphered and reported in the February 25th issue of PLOS ONE. Researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center say identifying the mechanisms of immortalization lays the groundwork for future clinical use of these cells.
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Center for Cellular Reprogramming Created To Drive Laboratory Breakthrough
Georgetown University Medical Center announces the launch of the Center for Cellular Reprogramming, a global center of excellence whose mission is to promote intra- and extramural collaborations, education and development, centered around the use of stem-like cells.
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HPV News Provides a Shot in the Arm
(July 10, 2013) — June 19 was a very good day for Richard Schlegel, MD, PhD, a pathologist at Georgetown University Medical Center who is known worldwide as a co-inventor of the technology behind the
Category: GUMC Stories
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New Center Serves as Research Hub
(March 20, 2013) — It quickly became known as the “Georgetown method.” A revolutionary way of growing both tumor and normal cells in order to one day truly personalize therapy has drawn scientists fr
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Keeping Cells Alive in the Lab
(January 19, 2012) — There is a lot of talk about personalized cancer treatment in medicine these days. One idea is to subject a tumor to different therapies to find the cocktail of drugs that will w
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