/newsroom/taxonomy/term/7761/all en /newsroom/channels/news/key-mechanism-identified-brain-tumor-growth-260607 <p><em><strong><a href="/newsroom/fr">黑料不打烊聽Newsroom</a></strong></em></p> <p><em>Discovery offers hope for more effective treatments of deadly glioblastomas</em></p> <p>A gene known as OSMR plays a key role in driving the growth of glioblastoma tumors, according to a new study led by a 黑料不打烊 University researcher and published in the journal <em>Nature Neuroscience</em>.</p> Mon, 25 Apr 2016 15:14:36 +0000 christopher.chipello@mcgill.ca 25765 at /newsroom /newsroom/channels/news/fight-tumors-and-infections-targeted-drugs-257962 <p><i>By Cynthia Lee</i></p> <p>Some drug regimens, such as those designed to eliminate tumors, are notorious for nasty side effects. Unwanted symptoms are often the result of medicine going where it鈥檚 not needed and harming healthy cells. To minimize this risk, researchers in Quebec have developed nanoparticles that only release a drug when exposed to near-infrared light, which doctors could beam onto a specific site. Their report appears in the <em>Journal of the American Chemical Society</em>.</p> Tue, 19 Jan 2016 18:17:23 +0000 nima.adibpour@mail.mcgill.ca 25106 at /newsroom