Cold Virus Proteins Give New Clues For Cancer Therapy
10/18/2012
A new study by scientists in the US suggests cold viruses may prove to be surprisingly valuable allies in the fight against cancer...
Growth Protein Could Serve As A Biomarker To Help Guide Prostate Cancer Treatment
10/18/2012
Men who had high levels of the activated Stat5 protein in their prostate cancer after a radical prostatectomy were more likely to have a recurrence or die from the disease compared to men who had little to no presence of the growth protein, according to a recent study published in Human Pathology by Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center researchers...
How Sickling Cells Make People Sick
10/18/2012
Researchers at Drexel University have identified the physical forces in red blood cells and blood vessels underlying the painful symptoms of sickle cell disease. Their experiment, the first to answer a scientific question about sickle cell disease using microfluidics engineering methods, may help future researchers better determine who is at greatest risk of harm from the disease...
Sickle cell disease - the most common inherited blood disorder in the United States - causes red blood cells to distort into a crescent shape and block small blood vessels. New insights into how these abnormal cells disrupt circulation could lead to more effective treatment strategies, as revealed by a study published by Cell Press in the Biophysical Journal...
How 'Cleaving' Protein Drives Tumor Growth In Prostate, Other Cancers
10/18/2012
Researchers led by Tanya Stoyanova and Dr. Owen Witte of UCLA's Eli and Edythe Broad Center of Regenerative Medicine and Stem Cell Research have determined how a protein known as Trop2 drives the growth of tumor cells in prostate and other epithelial cancers...
Analysis Of Data From Lung And Colon Cancer Patients May Enable Prediction Of Cancer Risk
10/18/2012
New research at the University of Southampton aims to develop a way of predicting who is more at risk of getting cancer...
Promising New Noninvasive Test For Colorectal Cancer
10/18/2012
A new noninvasive test for colorectal cancer screening demonstrated high sensitivity for detecting colorectal cancer, in particular precancers that are most likely to develop into cancer, according to data presented at the 11th Annual AACR International Conference on Frontiers in Cancer Prevention Research, held here Oct. 16-19, 2012...
The Characteristic Shape Of A Man's Urine Can Help Diagnose Urinary Problems
10/18/2012
Scientists at Queen Mary, University of London have discovered that the characteristic shape of a man's urine stream could be used to help diagnose urinary problems. The research, published in PLOS One is the first study to analyse the specific pattern a man's urine makes and whether it could be used to detect prostate problems...
Growth Protein Could Serve As A Biomarker To Help Guide Prostate Cancer Treatment
10/18/2012
Men who had high levels of the activated Stat5 protein in their prostate cancer after a radical prostatectomy were more likely to have a recurrence or die from the disease compared to men who had little to no presence of the growth protein, according to a recent study published in Human Pathology by Jefferson's Kimmel Cancer Center researchers...
Anti-Cancer Drugs Linked To Muscle Repair By Novel Discovery
10/18/2012
Few drugs are available to treat muscle injury, muscle wasting and genetic disorders causing muscle degeneration, such as Duchenne muscular dystrophy. A compelling discovery that may change this was made recently by a research group led by Dr...