by Stephane Cailmail | 25 Jun 2020 | Actualités générales, General news, Publications, Research
The fact that many people suffer from more than one disease, known as comorbidity, has become one of the main challenges for the 21st century aging population, as it mainly affects the elderly, decreasing treatment options and patients’ life expectancy while...
by Stephane Cailmail | 8 Jun 2020 | Actualités générales
Despite considerable research efforts, cancers remain the second leading cause of death in developed countries. Why so many more therapeutic failures? The reasons are multiple, the tumors are not always accessible to surgery, the current chemotherapy remains very...
by Stephane Cailmail | 15 May 2020 | Actualités générales, Publications, Research
Lymphoma is a blood cancer which develops from a type of white blood cells present in the lymphatic system; the lymphocytes. There are two types of lymphocytes: B lymphocytes and T lymphocytes. This study focuses on a particular type of blood cancer affecting T...
by Stephane Cailmail | 11 May 2020 | Actualités générales, Publications, Research
Cytotoxic T cells (CTL) are essential cellular components in the immune response against viruses and cancer. This is why it is essential to better understand the function of these cells and in particular to better understand how these cells manage to kill their target...
by Stephane Cailmail | 7 Feb 2020 | Actualités générales, General news, Publications, Research
Immunotherapy is a treatment that aims to educate our immune system against cancer cells. This treatment resulted in a long-term response in patients with metastatic melanoma (40-60%) with in some cases total tumour regression. The challenge is now that the maximum...
by Stephane Cailmail | 7 Feb 2020 | Actualités générales, Publications
Dendrogenin A (DDA) is a tumor suppressor mammalian cholesterol-derived metabolite and a new class of ligand of the Liver X receptor (LXR), which displays tumor cell differentiation. In human and mouse breast adenocarcinoma cells, DDA-induced cell differentiation was...
