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Notre Dame-Bruker partnership promotes advancements in imaging

Author: Marissa Gebhard

The University of Notre Dame has established a formal partnership with Bruker Corp., a world leader in scientific instrumentation. The partnership will develop one of the Midwest’s top imaging facilities at Notre Dame. The arrangement, called Bruker at Notre Dame (BAND), will allow the Notre Dame Integrated Imaging Facility (NDIIF)...

Notre Dame researchers offer new insights on cancer cell signaling

Author: William G. Gilroy

A pair of studies by a team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Crislyn D’Souza-Schorey, professor of biological sciences, sheds light on a biological process that is activated across a vast range of malignancies. Wnt proteins are a large family of proteins that activate signaling pathways (a set...

Notre Dame and Harper researchers developing novel method to test for HPV and oral cancers

Author: William G. Gilroy

Research being carried out at the University of Notre Dame and its affiliated Harper Cancer Research Institute (HCRI) may lead to the development of a rapid, cost-effective means of screening for oral cancers and the human papillomavirus. M. Sharon Stack, Ann F. Dunne and Elizabeth Riley Director of the HCRI...

New paper offers insights into how cancer cells avoid cell death

Author: William G. Gilroy

  A new study by a team of researchers from the University of Notre Dame provides an important new insight into how cancer cells are able to avoid the cell death process. The findings may reveal a novel chemotherapeutic approach to prevent the spread of cancers. Metastasis, the spread of...