Georgetown Researchers Lead Discovery Expected To Significantly Change Biomedical Research
12/21/2011
In a major step that could revolutionize biomedical research, scientists have discovered a way to keep normal cells as well as tumor cells taken from an individual cancer patient alive in the laboratory - which previously had not been possible. Normal cells usually die in the lab after dividing only a few times, and many common cancers will not grow, unaltered, outside of the body...
JCI Online Early Table Of Contents: Dec. 19, 2011
12/21/2011
Potential concern about drugs in clinical trial Drugs that enhance levels of small molecules derived naturally in the body from a major component of animal fats (small molecules known as epoxyeicosatrienoic acids [EETs]) are currently in clinical trials for the treatment of high blood pressure and diabetes...
Targeting EETs To Treat Cardiovascular Disease May Prove A Double-Edged Sword
12/21/2011
A group of small molecules called EETs - currently under scrutiny as possible treatment targets for a host of cardiovascular diseases - may also drive the growth and spread of cancer, according to researchers at the Dana-Farber/Children's Hospital Cancer Center (DF/CHCC) and other institutions...
Wayne State Study Finds Soybean Compounds Enhances Effects Of Cancer Radiotherapy
12/21/2011
A Wayne State University researcher has shown that compounds found in soybeans can make radiation treatment of lung cancer tumors more effective while helping to preserve normal tissue. A team led by Gilda Hillman, Ph.D...
NIH Scientists Find A Potential New Avenue For Cancer Therapies
12/21/2011
Recent findings in mice suggest that blocking the production of small molecules produced in the body, known as epoxyeicosatrienoic acids (EETs), may represent a novel strategy for treating cancer by eliminating the blood vessels that feed cancer tumors...
Elizabeth Barrett Browning's Illness Deciphered After 150 Years As Hypokalemic Periodic Paralysis
12/21/2011
Known for her poetry, letters, love affair and marriage to Robert Browning, Elizabeth Barrett Browning also left a legacy of unanswered questions about her lifelong chronic illness. Now, a Penn State anthropologist, with the aid of her daughter, may have unraveled the mystery...
Requiring Less Blood After Surgery
12/20/2011
According to study published in the New England Journal of Medicine, individuals who receive surgery require less blood after the procedure than commonly thought. The study compared two strategies for administering blood transfusions after surgery...
Multiple Myeloma Phase III Trial - Vorinostat Achieved Primary Endpoint
12/20/2011
MSD announced the results of their Phase III study of vorinostat at the 53rd Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH)...
Key Genetic Mutations In Family Of Blood Cancers
12/20/2011
A study published online in Nature Genetics reveals that scientists at the Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have uncovered a critical genetic mutation in some patients with myelodysplastic syndromes, which is are blood cancers that can progress to a fatal form of leukemia...
Sunless Tanning Product Users Sunbathe Less
12/20/2011
Young adult females who use tanning lotions and other sunless tanning products tend to sunbathe and use tanning salons less than other women of their age, researchers from Emory University School of Medicine, Atlanta, Georgia, reported in Archives of Dermatology. They added that the more a woman used sunless tanning products, the less she tended to sunbathe or use tanning salons...