Resistance Report Released By The American Academy Of Microbiology
3/08/2013
What do cancer cells, weeds, and pathogens have in common? They all evolve resistance to the treatments that are supposed to eliminate them. However, researchers developing the next generation of antibiotics, herbicides, and anti-cancer therapeutics rarely come together to explore the common evolutionary principles at work across their different biological systems...
Using 'Acid Reflux' To Kill Cancer Cells
3/08/2013
A University of Central Florida chemist has come up with a unique way to kill certain cancer cells - give them acid reflux. Chemistry professor Kevin Belfield used a special salt to make cancer cells more acidic - similar to the way greasy foods cause acid reflux in some people...
Lack Of Studies Means Benefit Of PET Or PET/CT In Bone And Soft Tissue Tumours Is Not Proven
3/08/2013
For patients with bone and soft tissue tumours, the study data currently available allow no robust conclusions as to the advantages and disadvantages of using positron emission tomography (PET), alone or in combination with computed tomography (CT). This is because no studies have directly compared the benefit of these imaging techniques with conventional diagnostics...
Getting To The Root Of Aggressive Ovarian Cancer
3/08/2013
Cornell University researchers have discovered a likely origin of epithelial ovarian cancer (ovarian carcinoma), the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Pinpointing where this cancer originates has been difficult because 70 percent of patients are in advanced stages of disease by the time it is detected...
Resistance Report Released By The American Academy Of Microbiology
3/08/2013
What do cancer cells, weeds, and pathogens have in common? They all evolve resistance to the treatments that are supposed to eliminate them. However, researchers developing the next generation of antibiotics, herbicides, and anti-cancer therapeutics rarely come together to explore the common evolutionary principles at work across their different biological systems...
Using 'Acid Reflux' To Kill Cancer Cells
3/08/2013
A University of Central Florida chemist has come up with a unique way to kill certain cancer cells - give them acid reflux. Chemistry professor Kevin Belfield used a special salt to make cancer cells more acidic - similar to the way greasy foods cause acid reflux in some people...
Lack Of Studies Means Benefit Of PET Or PET/CT In Bone And Soft Tissue Tumours Is Not Proven
3/08/2013
For patients with bone and soft tissue tumours, the study data currently available allow no robust conclusions as to the advantages and disadvantages of using positron emission tomography (PET), alone or in combination with computed tomography (CT). This is because no studies have directly compared the benefit of these imaging techniques with conventional diagnostics...
Focal Laser Ablation Offers Another Option For Some Prostate Cancer Patients
3/08/2013
Men with low-risk prostate cancer who previously had to choose between aggressive treatment, with the potential for significant side effects, and active surveillance, with the risk of disease progression, may have a new option...
Progression Of Barrett's Esophagus To Esophageal Adenocarcinoma May Be Predicted By Biomarkers
3/08/2013
A series of microRNA expression signatures that may help to define progression of the precancerous condition Barrett's esophagus into esophageal adenocarcinoma was reported recently in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research...
Biochemists Gain New Insight Into Double-Protected Dance Of Cell Division
3/08/2013
Biochemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst including assistant professor Peter Chien recently gained new insight into how protein synthesis and degradation help to regulate the delicate ballet of cell division. In particular, they reveal how two proteins shelter each other in "mutually assured cleanup" to insure that division goes smoothly and safely...