Mouth Tumor Removed From Fetus While Still In The Womb
6/25/2012
An oral teratoma - a mouth tumor - was successfully removed from a fetus while still in the womb via operative fetoscopy, doctors from Jackson Memorial Hospital, Florida, reported in the American Journal of Obstetrics & Gynecology. The medical team says this procedure is a "world first"...
Risk Of Cancer Lower In Multiple Sclerosis Patients
6/25/2012
Multiple sclerosis (MS) patients appear to have a lower cancer risk, according to a new study led by researchers at the University of British Columbia and Vancouver Coastal Health. The study, published in the journal Brain, is the first to investigate overall cancer risk in MS patients in North America...
According to researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center, cancer is subject to the evolutionary processes laid out by Charles Darwin in his concept of natural selection. Natural selection was the process identified by Darwin by which nature selects certain physical attributes, or phenotypes, to pass on to offspring to better "fit" the organism to the environment...
Examining The Biology Of Tumor-Derived Microvesicles
6/25/2012
A new paper by Crislyn D'Souza-Schorey, professor of biological sciences at the University of Notre Dame, discusses the biology of tumor-derived microvesicles and their clinical application as circulating biomarkers. Microvesicles are membrane-bound sacs released by tumor cells and can be detected in the body fluids of cancer patients...
Cancer Cells Stopped, Nerve Cells Regenerated By New Candidate Drug
6/25/2012
Scientists have developed a small-molecule-inhibiting drug that in early laboratory cell tests stopped breast cancer cells from spreading and also promoted the growth of early nerve cells called neurites. Researchers from Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center report their findings online in Chemistry & Biology...
Maternal Blood Test Could Predict Risk Of Having Dangerously Small Babies
6/25/2012
Researchers from the Ottawa Hospital Research Institute (OHRI) and the University of Ottawa (uOttawa) have found a protein in the blood of pregnant women that can predict if they are likely to have a fetus that doesn't grow properly, and thus has a high risk of stillbirth and long-term health complications. The research, led by Dr...
Potential New Therapeutic Target For Cancer Drugs
6/24/2012
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a new signal transduction pathway specifically devoted to the regulation of alternative RNA splicing, a process that allows a single gene to produce or code multiple types of protein variants. The discovery, published in Molecular Cell, suggests the new pathway might be a fruitful target for new cancer drugs...
Faulty Cancer Science With Misidentified And Contaminated Cell Lines
6/24/2012
Modern cancer therapies start in cells - researchers compare cancer samples to healthy cells to discover how cancer is genetically different, and use cell lines to test promising new drugs...
Head And Neck Cancer Patients With Chronic Inflammation More Likely To Be HPV Positive
6/22/2012
Researchers have discovered in a study published Online First in JAMA's Archives of Otolaryngology - Head & Neck Surgery that patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinomas, who have a history of chronic inflammation, such as periodontitis (gum disease) could be linked to having a higher risk of testing positive for human papillomavirus tumors (HPV)...
International Conference Highlights Versatility Of Zebrafish Research
6/22/2012
It's clear where the black-and-white striped zebrafish got its name, but less obvious at first glance is what zebrafish has to do with biomedical research. Amazingly, it has biological similarities to humans, which are making this small freshwater fish an increasingly popular model organism for studying vertebrate development, genetics, physiology, and mechanisms of disease...