Discovery Of A Cell Mechanism That Reduces Effectiveness Of Breast Cancer Treatment
10/20/2011
Researchers from Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard Medical School and CIC bioGUNE discover a complex cell mechanism activated by a protein HOXB9 that becomes an obstacle for radiation effectiveness. Scientists all over the world continue to focus their research on breast cancer...
Sharing Vampires' Appetite For Synthetic Blood
10/20/2011
Vampires on the True Blood television series are already enjoying the advantages of synthetic blood. While this may seem to be only the imagination on the big screen, the true benefits of blood manufactured from embryonic stem cells may be less than a decade away...
The Efficacy Of Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma Vaccine Demonstrated On Dogs
10/20/2011
An experimental vaccine developed by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania's schools of Medicine and Veterinary Medicine is the first veterinary cancer vaccine of its kind that shows an increase in survival time for dogs with spontaneous non-Hodgkin's lymphoma...
If genes provide the blueprint for life and proteins are the machines that do much of the work for cells, then carbohydrates that are linked to proteins are among the tools that enable cells to communicate with the outside world and each other...
In The Fight Against Brain Tumors, Allergies May Help
10/20/2011
A study published online Oct. 18 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute provides some new but qualified support for the idea that the immune system's response to allergies may reduce the risk of developing deadly brain tumors...
Fighting Cancer With Oncolytic Viruses
10/20/2011
Oncolytic virology uses live viruses to sense the genetic difference between a tumor and normal cell. Once the virus finds a tumor cell, it replicates inside that cell, kills it and then spreads to adjacent tumor cells to seed a therapeutic "chain reaction". As reported in Cancer Cell, Dr...
Association Between Antineoplastic Agents And Thyroid Dysfunction
10/20/2011
Antineoplastic agents such as immunotherapies and targeted therapies that specifically target signaling pathways in cancer cells are associated with thyroid dysfunction in 20%-50% of cancer patients taking them, which can adversely affect patients' quality of life, according to a study published Oct. 18 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute...
Sharing Vampires' Appetite For Synthetic Blood
10/20/2011
Vampires on the True Blood television series are already enjoying the advantages of synthetic blood. While this may seem to be only the imagination on the big screen, the true benefits of blood manufactured from embryonic stem cells may be less than a decade away...
Bowel Cancer Patients Need Erectile Dysfunction Advice
10/19/2011
A study published on bmj.com shows that male bowel cancer patients have a high probability of suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) after their treatment yet in spite of this, the majority of patients does not receive sufficient information about the condition...
Bowel Cancer Patients Need Erectile Dysfunction Advice
10/19/2011
A study published on bmj.com shows that male bowel cancer patients have a high probability of suffering from erectile dysfunction (ED) after their treatment yet in spite of this, the majority of patients does not receive sufficient information about the condition...