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Asher Jones and Kerry Grens | Apr 1, 2021 | 3 min read

Meet some of the people featured in the April 2021 issue of The Scientist.

“Rogue” Protein Could Contribute to Humans’ High Cancer Rates

Asher Jones | Apr 1, 2021 | 2 min read

A mutant protein called Siglec-XII may promote carcinoma progression in humans, but inactivation of its gene seems to avoid the problem, according to a study.

Bisrat Debeb Models How Cancer Spreads to the Brain

Catherine Offord | Apr 1, 2021 | 3 min read

From his student days in veterinary medicine in Ethiopia to running a lab on metastasis at MD Anderson Cancer Center, Debeb has a passion for understanding how living things work.

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Microscopic Robots Deliver Drugs to the Brain

Asher Jones | Mar 30, 2021 | 5 min read

Researchers turned white blood cells called neutrophils into drug-smuggling “neutrobots,” which penetrated the blood-brain barrier to treat brain cancer in mice.

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COVID-19 More Deadly with Blood than Solid Cancer: Study

Marcus A. Banks | Feb 16, 2021 | 4 min read

Death rates among blood cancer patients who contract COVID-19 are higher than for those with other cancers, pointing to impaired immunity that makes it hard to overcome the virus.