Researchers engineering new drug to beat blood cancers

Hasan Uludag holds a sample of leukemia cells treated with experimental drugs his team is testing that fight blood cancers by targeting gene defects in blood cells. (Photo: Geoff McMaster)

Reading Time: 3 minutes RNA technology used to target gene defects in blood cells that lead to diseases like leukemia

New way identified to prevent breast cancer cells from evading therapy

Gabrielle Siegers is part of a team of researchers who found a way make an elusive type of breast cancer cells more susceptible to treatments that use a patient’s own immune system to fight the cancer. (Photo: Tracy Fritz)

Reading Time: 3 minutes Inhibiting the process that causes resistance in these cells improves the efficacy of immunotherapy, could mean better outcomes