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An Optimized Lupus Autoantibody Fragment for Targeted Cancer Therapy

The specificity of binding by antibodies to target antigens is a compelling advantage to antibody-based cancer therapy, but most antibodies cannot penetrate cells to affect intracellular processes. Select lupus autoantibodies penetrate into cell nucle...

JAK inhibition impairs NK cell function in myeloproliferative neoplasms

Ruxolitinib is a small molecule inhibitor of the JAK kinases which has been approved for treatment of myelofibrosis, a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), but clinical trials also are being conducted in inflammatory-driven solid tumors. Increased i...

Ruxolitinib Impairs NK Cell Function

Ruxolitinib is a small-molecule inhibitor of the JAK kinases, which has been approved for the treatment of myelofibrosis, a rare myeloproliferative neoplasm (MPN), but clinical trials are also being conducted in inflammatory-driven solid tumors. Incre...

DNA Methylation Links Inflammation and Cancer

Chronic inflammation represents a major risk factor for tumor formation, but the underlying mechanisms have remained largely unknown. Epigenetic mechanisms can record the effects of environmental challenges on the genome level and could therefore play...

Chronic inflammation induces a novel epigenetic program that is conserved in intestinal adenomas and in colorectal cancer

Chronic inflammation represents a major risk factor for tumor formation, but the underlying mechanisms have remained largely unknown. Epigenetic mechanisms can record the effects of environmental challenges on the genome level, and could therefore play...