Immunotherapy, a new approach to tackle neck and head cancer
El Plural has published an article on the project being undertaken by Gonzalo Fernández-Miranda, an associate researcher at IRB Barcelona. The project seeks to develop a better treatment for cancer of the head and neck by means of an immunotherapeutic approach, which has been validated with proof of concept tests at the genetic level.
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RTVE, the newspaper Heraldo de Aragón, and Diario Médico—the newspaper specialized in health—among other media, have echoed on a new algorithm, developed by researchers at IRB Barcelona in collaboration with the Centre for Genomic Regulation and the University of Radboud, that allows identification of those patients who are most likely to benefit from immunotherapy. Based on machine learning, the scientists have developed a tool that detects the genetic mutations that activate the immune system.
Using machine learning, researchers have built a tool that detects genetic mutations that trigger the immune system, helping identify which cancer patients are more likely to benefit from immunotherapy
The algorithm also reveals which people living with hereditary diseases may benefit from drugs that already exist
The new technology’s potential is described today in Nature Genetics by researchers at IRB Barcelona, the Centre for Genomic Regulation and Radboud University
Immunotherapy is gaining ground in the fight against cancer. The tumour has a strategy to evade detection by the immune system, thus allowing it to spread throughout the body. Science has discovered this therapy and is working on overcoming this evasion strategy. In this regard, La República has published an interview with Eduard Batlle, head of the Colorectal Cancer Lab at IRB Barcelona.
