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Bioorthogonal Catalysis for Treatment of Solid Tumors Using Thermostable, Self-Assembling, Single Enzyme Nanoparticles and Natural Product Conversion with Indole-3-acetic Acid (ACS Nano., June 2022)

Bioorthogonal catalysis (BC) generates chemical reactions not present in normal physiology for the purpose of disease treatment. Because BC catalytically produces the desired therapy only at the site of disease, it holds the promise of site-specific treatment with little or no systemic exposure or side effects.

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Identification of Mechanism of Cancer-cell-specific Reactivation of hTERT Offers Therapeutic Opportunities for Blocking Telomerase Specifically in Human Colorectal Cancer (Nucleic Acids Res., June 2022)

Transcriptional reactivation of hTERT is the limiting step in tumorigenesis. While mutations in hTERT promoter present in 19% of cancers are recognized as key drivers of hTERT reactivation, mechanisms by which wildtype hTERT (WT-hTERT) promoter is reactivated, in majority of human cancers, remain unknown.

Identification of Mechanism of Cancer-cell-specific Reactivation of hTERT Offers Therapeutic Opportunities for Blocking Telomerase Specifically in Human Colorectal Cancer (Nucleic Acids Res., June 2022) Read More »

CSI Singapore Principal Investigators Part of a Collaborative Effort to Secure a $25M NMRC Collaborative Grant to Tackle Liver Cancer

CSI Singapore would like to congratulate its Principal Investigators, namely Prof. Patrick Tan, Assoc. Prof. Edward Chow and Dr. Tam Wai Leong who are involved in a collaborative effort with the National Cancer Centre Singapore (NCCS), the Agency for Science, Technology and Research’s Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) and Institute of Molecular and Cell Biology (IMCB) and Duke-NUS Medical School.

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Congratulations to Ms. Xu Jingru, a CSI PhD student on receiving the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2022 NM05 Symposium Best Student Oral Presentation Award!

Held in Honolulu, Hawaii between May 8 – 13, Ms. Xu Jingru presented at the NM05 Symposium, which focuses on discussions relating to the recent advances of nanodiamond in quantum sensing, diagnostic, biomedical and other novel applications.

Congratulations to Ms. Xu Jingru, a CSI PhD student on receiving the Materials Research Society (MRS) 2022 NM05 Symposium Best Student Oral Presentation Award! Read More »

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Organoid Co-cultures Mimic Angiocrine Crosstalk to Generate Inflammatory Tumor Microenvironment (Biomaterials, May 22)

Despite approvals of several therapeutics to treat advanced HCC in the past few years, the impact of anti-angiogenic treatment on HCC patient overall survival remains limited. This suggests there may be alternative, perfusion-independent roles of endothelial cells that support tumor progression.

Hepatocellular Carcinoma Organoid Co-cultures Mimic Angiocrine Crosstalk to Generate Inflammatory Tumor Microenvironment (Biomaterials, May 22) Read More »

Chromatin Rewiring by Mismatch Repair Protein MSH2 Alters Cell Adhesion Pathways and Sensitivity to BET Inhibition in Gastric Cancer (Cancer Res, May 22)

Mutations in the DNA mismatch repair gene MSH2 are causative of microsatellite instability (MSI) in multiple cancers. Here, we discovered that besides its well-established role in DNA repair, MSH2 exerts a novel epigenomic function in gastric cancer (GC).

Chromatin Rewiring by Mismatch Repair Protein MSH2 Alters Cell Adhesion Pathways and Sensitivity to BET Inhibition in Gastric Cancer (Cancer Res, May 22) Read More »

“Cancer fishing”: CSI Singapore Researchers Discover New Mechanisms of Cancer using Zebrafish and Single-cell Sequencing Technology

For decades, scientists and doctors have been searching for the mechanisms underlying the formation of cancers.  Accumulating studies have revealed that each cancer type (e.g. gastric cancer, lung cancer, leukemia,

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