The 2020 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was awarded to Fellows of the AACR Academy Emmanuelle Charpentier, PhD, and Jennifer A. Doudna, PhD, for their groundbreaking development of the CRISPR-Cas9 genome editing system. This technology allows researchers to accurately delete,...
Immune checkpoint inhibition is a form of cancer immunotherapy that works by releasing the “brakes” on the immune system, thereby increasing...
Lymphomas are a form of blood cancer that begin in lymphocytes, also known as white blood cells. Over the...
The prognosis for a patient with cancer depends on several factors, including the cancer’s stage. Patients whose cancers are diagnosed at earlier...
It is estimated that almost 40 percent of people in the United States will be diagnosed with cancer during their lifetimes and...
The AACR Virtual Meeting: COVID-19 and Cancer opened Monday with a keynote address from the nation’s leading infectious disease expert, Anthony Fauci, MD, the director of the National Institutes of Allergy and Infectious Diseases. Well...
The COVID-19 pandemic continues to impact the United States and other parts of the world. To date, 13 million cases have been...
“Progress in science depends on new techniques, new discoveries, and new ideas— probably in that order,” said the late Nobel Laureate...
Cancer is often described as a disease of old age. However, certain cancers have become increasingly prevalent among younger populations...
“It’s going to be a vibrant session,” said session moderator Nada Jabado, MD, PhD. With these words, the first of two sessions featuring the...