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Solid cancers exhibit a dynamic balance between cell death and proliferation ensuring continuous tumour maintenance and growth(1,2). Increasing evidence links enhanced cancer cell apoptosis to paracrine activation of cells in the tumour microenvironment in ...

NATURE PORTFOLIO2022

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Christoph Merten, Ngoc Hien Du

Anti-cancer therapies often exhibit only short-term effects. Tumors typically develop drug resistance causing relapses that might be tackled with drug combinations. Identification of the right combination is challenging and would benefit from high-content, ...

Nature Research2022

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Cancer represents one of the major public health challenges worldwide, representing more than 25% of all deaths in the European Union in 2014. It affects a large and growing part of the general population, with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) estimatin ...

EPFL2021

The pro-apoptotic properties of a phytonutrient rich infusion of A. cherimola leaf extract on AML cells

Natalia Gasilova, Laure Menin, Rita Sarkis, Maria Younes

Annonaceae family has broad uses in herbal medicine for treatment of several diseases, whether through seeds' or leaves' extracts. The present study investigates the antiproliferative and antitumor activity of Annona cherimola aqueous leaf (AAL) extract/in ...

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NRF2 Activation Confers Resistance to eIF4A Inhibitors in Cancer Therapy

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Inhibition of the eIF4A RNA helicase with silvestrol and related compounds is emerging as a powerful anti-cancer strategy. We find that a synthetic silvestrol analogue (CR-1-31 B) has nanomolar activity across many cancer cell lines. It is especially activ ...

2021

Biodegradable Harmonophores for Targeted High-Resolution In Vivo Tumor Imaging

Sylvie Roke, Claire Jacqueline Léa Teulon, Ali Yasin Sonay, Shahed Behzadi, Sine Yaganoglu

Optical imaging probes have played a major role in detecting and monitoring a variety of diseases. In particular, nonlinear optical imaging probes, such as second harmonic generating (SHG) nanoprobes, hold great promise as clinical contrast agents, as they ...

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Biology and therapeutic targeting of tumour-associated macrophages

Michele De Palma, Tim Beltraminelli

Macrophages sustain tumour progression by facilitating angiogenesis, promoting immunosuppression, and enhancing cancer cell invasion and metastasis. They also modulate tumour response to anti-cancer therapy in pre-clinical models. This knowledge has motiva ...

WILEY2020

Multidisciplinary Approach to Treat Erectile Dysfunction

Mikaël Nils Sturny

Erectile dysfunction (ED) is a widespread disease affecting approximately 20% of men. With a rising incidence due to the global ageing of the world population, it is estimated that over 322 million patients will be affected in 2025. While not being a lifet ...

EPFL2020

Targeting the oncogenic signaling of the transcription factor STAT3 with potent and selective monobody inhibitors

Grégory La Sala

Many targeted cancer therapies fail to improve the overall survival of patients. Limitations involve low drug selectivity and the rapid development of resistance. Moreover, the majority of oncogenic drivers presently remain considered as undruggable as th ...

EPFL2020

Magnetic Design of a Superconducting Toroidal Gantry for Hadron Therapy

Luca Bottura, Enrico Felcini, Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit

Hadron and proton therapy are cutting edge techniques for cancer treatment and a great development of specialized medical centers and research facilities is foreseen in the next decades. One of the main obstacles to the penetration of the use of charged pa ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2020