Tag: cancer

BUnano Professor Xue Han Develops New Method to Help with Treatment for Cancer and Brain Disease

Boston University researchers have developed a new method that traps drugs or other molecules in tiny cages made of DNA, then releases them once they’ve reached their target – tumor cells, for instance – with a quick flash of light.  “Basically it’s sort of a controlled drug release, and there wasn’t a very good approach [to […]

Unraveling Melanoma’s Mysteries

MED’s Anurag Singh wins grant to study gene in deadly skin cancer. Singh, a MED assistant professor of pharmacology and medicine and XTNC mentor, is tackling this poorly understood melanoma by investigating how NRAS transforms healthy, normal skin cells into aggressive cancerous cells. The work is funded by a three-year, $150,000 grant from the Melanoma […]