Tag: Melanoma

London: A team of researchers has managed to exploit a vulnerability in melanoma or skin cancer that develops resistance to a targeted therapy, providing a potential new therapeutic strategy to selectively kill the drug-resistant cancer cells. The study has shown that when cancer cells develop drug resistance, they also acquire a new vulnerability, the Xinhua […]

New York: Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) researchers have developed a fast-acting skin patch that efficiently delivers medication to attack cells in melanoma – a deadly form of skin cancer. Topical ointments can impart medications to the skin, but they can only penetrate a small distance through it. While syringes are an effective drug delivery […]