Zinc A Likely Life-Saver In Victims Of Lethal Stings From The Australian Box Jellyfish
12/17/2012
Box jellyfish of the Chironex species are among the most venomous animals in the world, capable of killing humans with their sting. Their venom, though, which kills by rapidly punching holes in human red blood cells, can be slowed down by administering zinc, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Angel Yanagihara from the University of Hawaii and colleagues...
Donated umbilical cord blood establishes a new blood supply in patients more quickly after transplantation when it is first expanded in the lab on a bed of cells that mimics conditions in the bone marrow, researchers report in the New England Journal of Medicine...
Snack Attack: Eating Unhealthy Snack Foods May Affect Cancer Risk In Patients With Lynch Syndrome
12/17/2012
A new analysis has found that loading up on snack foods may increase cancer risk in individuals with an inborn susceptibility to colorectal and other cancers...
Drug Approved To Treat Rare Forms Of Leukemia
12/16/2012
A new drug used to treat patients with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) and Philadelphia chromosome positive acute leukemia (Ph+ ALL) has just received approval from the U.S. Food and Drug Administration...
Predicting Susceptibility To Burkitt Lymphoma
12/16/2012
New research, presented at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) that may help researchers identify young children who are more susceptible to eBL...
In Oncogene-Induced Senescence, Previously Unknown Mechanism Identified
12/16/2012
Cell aging, or cellular senescence, has an important role in the natural physiological response to tumor development. Activated oncogenes are able to induce senescence, and recent findings have suggested that oncogene-induced senescence (OIS) could play a key role in future cancer therapy. Researchers have now identified a previously unknown mechanism in the regulation of OIS...
Circulating Cancer Cell Capture Could Provide Insights Into Metastasis
12/16/2012
A glass plate with a nanoscale roughness could be a simple way for scientists to capture and study the circulating tumor cells that carry cancer around the body through the bloodstream. Engineering and medical researchers at the University of Michigan have devised such a set-up, which they say takes advantage of cancer cells' stronger drive to settle and bind compared with normal blood cells...
Large Study Identifies Risk Factors For Multiple Myeloma
12/15/2012
Multiple myeloma is a type of leukaemia which affects B lymphocytes. There have been some indications that exposure to pesticides or chlorinated solvents increases the risk of developing this cancer...
HPV In Older Women May Be Due To Reactivation Of Virus, Not New Infection
12/15/2012
A new study suggests that human papillomavirus (HPV) infection in women at or after menopause may represent an infection acquired years ago, and that HPV infections may exist below limits of detection after one to two years, similar to other viruses, such as varicella zoster, which can cause shingles...
Survey Shows Breakthrough Medical Research Relies Heavily On NIH Funding
12/15/2012
63% of American respondents presenting at the American Society of Hematology annual meeting used NIH funding to support their study A survey highlighting the correlation between today's cutting edge medical research and the National Institutes of Health (NIH) funding was released today at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), the preeminent med...