• How artificial intelligence is contributing to cancer research at the CNIO
  31.10.2024
  The research community recognizes the arrival of artificial intelligence (AI) as a revolution, a “paradigm shift” that affects all areas of research. In oncology it is already being used to better detect and diagnose cancer, and in the development of more effective treatments with fewer side effects. But this is just the beginning. The Spanish […]
• Three experts explain how research is being done to make immunotherapy effective in an increasing number of breast cancers
  18.10.2024
  Immunotherapy has become the most promising strategy for treating cancer, but its effectiveness is still very uneven. In the month of breast cancer, the most common tumor in women –almost 2.5 million cases are diagnosed worldwide each year–, three researchers present the main advances and challenges in the application of immunotherapy to this tumor at […]
• CNIO researchers propose a new treatment for brain metastasis based on immunotherapy
  02.10.2024
  Researchers at the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) propose a new treatment for brain metastases that respond poorly, or not at all, to immunotherapy, and provide a biomarker to predict in which cases it should be used. Our bodies have a mechanism to destroy anything that attacks it, be it viruses, bacteria or cancer […]
• The artificial intelligence revolution in cancer research has already begun, according to Valencia, Oliver and Blasco
  26.09.2024
  “In ten years, it is likely that artificial intelligence will be integrated into clinical decision support systems, which would evaluate patient data in real time and allow treatments to be adjusted dynamically,” said Alfonso Valencia, pioneer of computational biology in Spain and a world-renowned expert in this field. In the future that he envisages, diseases […]
• AI MEETS CANCER RESEARCH SYMPOSIUM 2024
  26.09.2024
  
• CNIO researcher Marina Serna, awarded for her contribution to solving a crucial biological problem
  09.09.2024
  Proteins are the molecules responsible for cells, and therefore the whole organism, to work. They perform a myriad of different tasks, and they do so by ‘fitting’ into each other, like pieces of a tiny three-dimensional Tetris, on an atomic scale. So, to understand how proteins – and cells, and the organism – work, we […]
• Manal Ahmed, the Egyptian researcher spending six months at CNIO, wants to develop CAR-T cell therapies in her country
  28.08.2024
  As soon as she started medical school, Manal Ahmed felt the appeal of immunology, “because it’s like a war. A war in which we fight against viruses, bacteria, even our own cells; actually, in cancer we fight against our own cells”. That is why this researcher at the Institute for Medical and Clinical Studies at […]
• What we eat does change our cancer risk. CNIO researchers want to know why
  22.08.2024
  What we eat and drink influences the incidence, growth and progression of cancer, to the extent that diet can help to prevent a third of the most common tumours.  The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC) points out that “there is solid evidence that a healthy diet and physical activity reduce the risk of […]
• CNIO researchers discover a ‘switch’ for the desire to engage in physical activity: two proteins that get activated in the muscle during exercise
  16.08.2024
  Exercising is healthy, but not always appealing. Research led by Guadalupe Sabio from the National Cancer Research Centre (CNIO) may have found a switch that activates the desire to get moving, as it shows that during exercise the muscle activates proteins which encourage further activity. The paper is published in Science Advances. “We have discovered […]