Researcher Develops New Antibodies To Target And Destroy Cancer Cells
6/01/2012
Because cancer cells grow very quickly, chemotherapy is designed to target cells whose numbers grow rapidly. But this treatment comes with a heavy price - many healthy cells essential for body functions are also targeted and killed by the toxin. This dangerous side-effect has prompted researchers to seek better and more selective ways to kill cancer cells inside the body. Prof...
Diagnostic Biochip-Based Device Can Detect Leukemia, HIV
6/01/2012
Inexpensive, portable devices that can rapidly screen cells for leukemia or HIV may soon be possible thanks to a chip that can produce three-dimensional focusing of a stream of cells, according to researchers. "HIV is diagnosed based on counting CD4 cells," said Tony Jun Huang, associate professor of engineering science and mechanics, Penn State...
Diabetes Drug Pioglitazone Associated With Bladder Cancer Risk
6/01/2012
According to a study published in British Medical Journal (BMJ), a drug for treating type 2 diabetes called Pioglitazone is linked to a higher risk of bladder cancer and taking the drug continuously for longer than two years doubles the risk. The researchers stress, however, that the risk in absolute terms is relatively low with up to 137 extra cases per 100,000 person years...
Study Compares The Epigenetic Markers Of A Healthy Person And One With A Genetic Disease
6/01/2012
A study led by Manel Esteller, director of the Epigenetics and Cancer Biology Program at the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL), professor of genetics at the University of Barcelona and ICREA researcher has completed the first epigenome in Europe. The finding is published in the international scientific journal Epigenetics...
After Cancer Diagnosis, Men And Women Receive Different Fertility Advice
6/01/2012
There are significant gaps in the information women receive about their future fertility following cancer diagnosis, suggests a new paper published in BJOG: An International Journal of Obstetrics and Gynaecology. Infertility can be a side-effect of cancer treatment and there are increasing numbers of people of reproductive age undergoing such treatment...
Breast Stem-Cell Research Reveals Receptor Teamwork Required, Possible Involvement Of New Pathway
6/01/2012
Breast-cancer researchers at the University of Wisconsin-Madison have found that two related receptors in a robust signaling pathway must work together as a team to maintain normal activity in mammary stem cells. Mammary stem cells produce various kinds of breast cell types. They may also drive the development and growth of malignant breast tumors...
Development Of Synthetic Platelets
6/01/2012
Synthetic platelets have been developed by UC Santa Barbara researchers, in collaboration with researchers at Scripps Research Institute and Sanford-Burnham Institute in La Jolla, Calif. Their findings are published in the journal Advanced Materials in a paper titled "Platelet Mimetic Particles for Targeting Thrombi in Flowing Blood...
Personalizing Exercise For People With Cancer
5/31/2012
Exercise generally helps the nation's 12 million cancer survivors, and researchers are working toward being able to prove, with scientific certainty, that prescriptions for daily yoga or 20 minutes of walking will likely extend a patient's survival...
The Same Gene That Makes Kids Grow Too Fast Can Also Cause Stunted Growth
5/31/2012
UCLA geneticists have identified the mutation responsible for IMAGe syndrome, a rare disorder that stunts infants' growth. The twist? The mutation occurs on the same gene that causes Beckwith-Wiedemann syndrome, which makes cells grow too fast, leading to very large children...
Huge Childhood Cancer DNA Catalogue Released
5/31/2012
By releasing a huge catalogue of complete DNA data on childhood cancers to the global scientific community, a team at St Jude Children's Research Hospital in Memphis, Tennessee, in the US, hopes to speed up progress in finding causes and new treatments for cancer and other diseases. The catalogue contains whole genome sequences, essentially complete DNA maps, from 260 child cancer patients...