Mechanism Discovered That Can Help Design Future Therapies For Leukemia
9/06/2011
An international team of researchers has found a group of mutations involved in T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL), and showed that certain drugs, already in clinical use to treat other diseases, can eliminate the cells carrying these mutations. Results* will be published in Nature Genetics and may promote the development of novel therapeutic approaches against leukemia...
Human Intestinal Stem Cell 'Breakthrough' For Regenerative Medicine Announced By Scientists
9/06/2011
Human colon stem cells have been identified and grown in a lab-plate for the first time. This achievement, made by researchers of the Colorectal Cancer Lab at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) and published in /iNature Medicine, is a crucial advance towards regenerative medicine...
NIH Scientists Repurpose FDA-Approved Drug To Target Specific Defect Causing WHIM Syndrome
9/06/2011
A new study reports that a drug already approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in patients undergoing a bone marrow transplant may also have promise for treating people who have a rare immune deficiency known as WHIM syndrome...
New Cancer Killer - A Harmless Soil-Dwelling Bacteria
9/06/2011
A bacterial strain that specifically targets tumours could soon be used as a vehicle to deliver drugs in frontline cancer therapy. The strain is expected to be tested in cancer patients in 2013 says a scientist at the Society for General Microbiology's Autumn Conference at the University of York. The therapy uses Clostridium sporogenes - a bacterium that is widespread in the soil...
Tricking The Body To Heal Itself With Low-Dose Naltrexone (LDN)
9/06/2011
Researchers at The Pennsylvania State University College of Medicine, Hershey, Pennsylvania have discovered the mechanism by which a low dose of the opioid antagonist naltrexone (LDN), an agent used clinically (off-label) to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases, exerts a profound inhibitory effect on cell proliferation...
Profiler At The Cellular Level
9/06/2011
Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological "computer" network in human cells. This network recognizes certain cancer cells using logic combinations of five cancer-specific molecular factors, triggering cancer cells destruction...
If Environmental Conditions Of Tumors Are Changed, The Process Reverses
9/06/2011
Like snakes, tumour cells shed their skin. Cancer is not a static disease but during its development the disease accumulates changes to evade natural defences adapting to new environmental circumstances, protecting against chemotherapy and radiotherapy and invading neighbouring organs, eventually causing metastasis...
BBC's Holby City Criticized By Trauma Experts For 'Peddling Dangerous Drugs'
9/06/2011
Trauma experts have criticized the BBC over a recent episode of Holby City that effectively advertised and promoted a drug that has no proven record of saving lives...
Walnuts Reduce Breast Cancer Risk By Half In Animal Studies
9/05/2011
Mice fed a diet that included daily walnuts had half the risk of developing breast cancer compared to those on a typical diet, researchers from Marshal University School of Medicine reported in the journal Nutrition and Cancer. Elaine Hardman, Ph.D...
Soil Bacteria Help Kill Cancer Tumors
9/05/2011
A strain of harmless bacteria that live in soil could soon be helping to kill cancer tumors, thanks to researchers from the University of Nottingham in the UK and the University of Maastricht in the Netherlands who are presenting their work at a conference in York, England, this week...