Blood Cells Returned To Stem Cell State
8/24/2012
Johns Hopkins scientists have developed a reliable method to turn the clock back on blood cells, restoring them to a primitive stem cell state from which they can then develop into any other type of cell in the body...
What Is Blood Sugar? What Is Blood Glucose?
8/24/2012
Blood sugar or blood glucose refers to sugar that is transported through the bloodstream to supply energy to all the cells in our bodies. The sugar is made from the food we eat...
Cancer Treatment And Prevention By Targeting Inflammation
8/24/2012
Researchers at the Georgia Health Sciences University Cancer Center have identified a gene that disrupts the inflammatory process implicated in liver cancer. Laboratory mice bred without the gene lacked a pro-inflammatory protein called TREM-1 and protected them from developing liver cancer after exposure to carcinogens...
Acetaldehyde Formed After Alcohol Consumption Damages DNA, May Increase Risk Of Cancer
8/24/2012
Almost 30 years after discovery of a link between alcohol consumption and certain forms of cancer, scientists are reporting the first evidence from research on people explaining how the popular beverage may be carcinogenic...
Antifungal Drug Thiabendazole Offers Inexpensive Cancer Therapy Alternative
8/23/2012
During investigations into the relationship between yeast, frogs, mice and humans, researchers from Texas University's College of Natural Sciences have discovered that an inexpensive antifungal drug called thiabendazole, slows tumor growth and could potentially be used as chemotherapy for cancer treatment. The study was published the PLoS Biology...
Researchers Find Cancer-Causing Agent In Chewing Tobacco
8/23/2012
Approximately 9 million people in the U.S. use chewing tobacco, snuff or other related products. Now researchers have identified a strong oral carcinogen substance in smokeless tobacco. The teams findings are reported at the 244th National Meeting & Exposition of the American Chemical Society. Stephen Hecht, Ph.D...
Strong Oral Carcinogen Identified In Smokeless Tobacco
8/23/2012
Scientists have reported identification of the first substance in smokeless tobacco that is a strong oral carcinogen - a health risk for the 9 million users of chewing tobacco, snuff and related products in the U.S. - and called upon the federal government to regulate or ban the substance...
Patients With Early-Stage Follicular Lymphoma Have Many Options, Good Outcomes
8/23/2012
A University of Rochester Medical Center study challenges treatment guidelines for early stage follicular lymphoma, concluding that six different therapies can bring a remission, particularly if the patient is carefully examined and staged at diagnosis...
"Antibody-Recruiting Molecules" Being Developed To Aid The Body's Natural Disease-Fighting Proteins
8/23/2012
Like recruiters pitching military service to a throng of people, scientists are developing drugs to recruit disease-fighting proteins present naturally in everyone's blood in medicine's war on infections, cancer and a range of other diseases...
Research Could Lead To Development Of New And Effective Drugs To Treat Cancer
8/23/2012
Transcription is a cellular process by which genetic information from DNA is copied to messenger RNA for protein production. But anticancer drugs and environmental chemicals can sometimes interrupt this flow of genetic information by causing modifications in DNA...