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Genetic test identifies invasive lobular carcinomas that are at high risk of recurring

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Credit: Breast Unit of the Champalimaud Clinical Centre in Lisbon, Portugal New results to be presented at the 12th European Breast Cancer Conference show that a test, which looks at the activity of 70 genes in breast cancer tissue, is possible to use in the clinic to identify patients with invasive lobular carcinoma (ILC) that […].

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Insilico Medicine gets $255 million to boost AI-powered R&D, announces a collaboration

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Credit: Insilco June 22, 2021, New York / Hong Kong — Insilico Medicine, a global leader in end-to-end artificial intelligence for target discovery, small molecule chemistry, and clinical development, announced that it has closed a $255 million from biotechnology experts to progress Insilico Medicine’s current therapeutic programs into (..)

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The mode of detection of high-risk breast cancers is linked to patient prognosis

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Breast cancers that are detected in the interval between national screening programme mammograms have a worse prognosis than those detected at the time of a screening, even if they have the same biology, according to research presented at the 12th European Breast Cancer Conference on Saturday.