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The new medicine is based on a spherical nucleic acid, a nanomaterial (labeled red) that travels along a nerve from the nose to the brain.
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Nasal Drops Fight Brain Tumors Noninvasively

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Nano-sized medicine boosts anti-cancer immune response, eradicates tumors in mice Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, along with collaborators at Northwestern University, have developed a noninvasive approach to treat one of…

Collective Cells Deforming Collagen
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Working Together, Cells Extend Their Senses

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New research from Amit Pathak’s lab has implications for tracking cancer The story of the princess and the pea evokes an image of a highly sensitive royal young woman so refined, she can sense a…

Image Study Sheds Light On How Pediatric Brain Tumors Grow
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Study Sheds Light on How Pediatric Brain Tumors Grow

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Blocking a chemical messenger in the brain that helps tumor cells multiply could offer new route to treatment The most common type of brain tumor in children, pilocytic astrocytoma (PA), accounts for about 15% of…