Quantum Effects And Cancer
3/28/2012
The theory of quantum metabolism is the idea that quantum processes, such as entanglement, influence the metabolism of cells. This idea offers scientists a new explanation for the metabolic changes that cause healthy cells to transform into cancerous ones. The metamorphosis gives cancerous cells the ability to outcompete healthy cells for space and nutrients, causing the disease to spread...
More Effective Cancer Drugs May Result From Mapping Of Substrate-Kinase Interactions
3/28/2012
Later-stage cancers thrive by finding detours around roadblocks that cancer drugs put in their path, but a Purdue University biochemist is creating maps that will help drugmakers close more routes and develop better drugs. Kinase enzymes deliver phosphates to cell proteins in a process called phosphorylation, switching a cellular function on or off...
Using Metabolic "Pollution" To Target Improved Anticancer Treatments
3/28/2012
Advances in chemotherapy have dramatically improved the outlook for many cancer patients, but the side effects of this treatment are daunting. A new generation of chemotherapy drugs with fewer side effects is the goal of Edward J. Merino, assistant professor of chemistry at the University of Cincinnati...
Nearly one in five people suffers from the insidious and often devastating problem of chronic pain. That the problem persists, and is growing, is striking given the many breakthroughs in understanding the basic biology of pain over the past two decades...
New Method May Offer The First Viable Approach To Gene Transfer In Sickle Cell Anemia
3/28/2012
A team of researchers led by scientists at Weill Cornell Medical College has designed what appears to be a powerful gene therapy strategy that can treat both beta-thalassemia disease and sickle cell anemia. They have also developed a test to predict patient response before treatment...
Women Not Preserving Fertility During Cancer Treatment
3/28/2012
A new study from the US finds few young women being treated for cancer take steps to preserve their fertility, for instance so they can start a family later. Dr Mitchell Rosen, of the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), and colleagues, also found disparities among different groups of young women, with some more likely to take steps to freeze eggs or embryos than others...
Mechanism Discovered For Destroying Particular Cancer Cells
3/28/2012
An international team of scientists has announced a new advance in the ability to target and destroy certain cancer cells. A group led by the University of Leicester has shown that particular cancer cells are especially sensitive to a protein called p21...
Under-Reporting Of Heart-Damaging Side Effects Of Cancer Drugs
3/28/2012
The under-reporting of the possible side effects of heart damage from cancer drugs puts patients at an increased risk for heart failure, according to two researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine...
Study Shows Single Antibody Shrinks Variety Of Human Tumors Transplanted Into Mice
3/28/2012
Human tumors transplanted into laboratory mice disappeared or shrank when scientists treated the animals with a single antibody, according to a new study from the Stanford University School of Medicine. The antibody works by masking a protein flag on cancer cells that protects them from macrophages and other cells in the immune system...
Avoiding Mastectomy With Preoperative Estrogen-Blocking Therapy
3/28/2012
Preoperative treatment with aromatase inhibitors increases the likelihood that postmenopausal women with estrogen receptor-positive breast cancer will be able to have breast-conserving surgery rather than a mastectomy, according to the results of a national clinical trial presented at the Society of Surgical Oncology annual meeting in Orlando, Fla...