Marisa Alonso Núñez is pharmacist and biochemist and has a PhD in molecular microbiology and genetics. She has been working as a research scientist at the Paterson Institute for Cancer Research in Manchester (UK) the past few years and she is currently working in the bi-centenarian Pharmacy Núñez in Astorga (Spain)
Killing cancer cells is a key point to cure cancer. Many researchers are working on developing different therapies to do just that. The one I’m going to talk about today is a very promising one: Oncolytic Virotherapy. Just the name may scare you but it’s a very clever approach to treat some tumors lacking a […]
Nowadays there are quite a few compounds in clinical trials to assay their potential as breast cancer treatments. Some of them are the so called “PARP inhibitors”. These inhibitors work very well in tumours that have a deficiency in DNA repair because PARP proteins are involved in that process. However, a group of researchers working […]