A New Therapy Without Side Effects Could Improve Dramatically Chemotherapy
7/20/2011
Researchers of the University of Granada and Edimbourgh have developed a new therapy for cancer based on nanotechnology that might improve significantly chemotherapy, as it has not cause side effects. This therapy is based on the encapsulation of a catalyst (palladium) into microspheres, to synthesize artificial materials or activate drugs within human cells, thus avoiding any toxicity...
Molecular Basis For DNA Breakage Identified By Scientists
7/20/2011
Scientists from the Hebrew University have identified the molecular basis for DNA breakage, a hallmark of cancer cells. The findings of this research have just been published in the journal Molecular Cell. The DNA encodes the entire genetic information required for building the proteins of the cell. Hence, DNA breaks disrupt the proteins and lead to changes in the cell function...
Drinking Guidelines Regarding The Risk Of Cancer May Be Inadequate
7/20/2011
A group of French scientists (from the Unit of Research on Nutritional Epidemiology, French National Institute for Agricultural Research, Bobigny, France; the French Institute for Prevention and Health Education, St...
Genes Vital To Preventing Childhood Leukemia Identified By Research
7/20/2011
Researchers at The University of Western Ontario have identified genes that may be important for preventing childhood leukemia. Acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) is a cancer of the blood that occurs primarily in young children. It's frequently associated with mutations or chromosomal abnormalities that arise during embryonic or fetal development...
News From The Journals Of The American Society For Microbiology
7/20/2011
How Flu Virus Spreads To College Community: Major Implications for Control Many different strains of the H1N1 influenza virus were represented among 57 students at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) who were infected during the epidemic in the fall of 2009, according to a paper in the July Journal of Virology...
Bringing Promising Bioscience Discoveries To Market
7/20/2011
National Jewish Health researchers have been awarded more than $400,000 in grants to help develop promising bioscience discoveries into new products, services and businesses. The state of Colorado's Bioscience Discovery Evaluation Grant Program awarded grants for work on potential new therapies for pulmonary fibrosis, autoimmune disease, cancer and arthritis...
Study Reveals Cancer Stem Cells Recruit Normal Stem Cells To Fuel Ovarian Cancer
7/19/2011
Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found that a type of normal stem cell fuels ovarian cancer by encouraging cancer stem cells to grow. Cancer stem cells are the small number of cells in a tumor that drive its growth and spread. Traditional cancer treatments do not kill these cells, which is why cancer treatments often fail...
Cancer Cells And Stem Cells Share Same Origin
7/19/2011
Oncogenes are generally thought to be genes that, when mutated, change healthy cells into cancerous tumor cells...
Promising Results From New Anti-Cancer Agents For Treating Aggressive Breast Cancers
7/19/2011
Some of the most aggressive forms of breast cancer are more vulnerable to chemotherapy when it is combined with a new class of anti-cancer agent, researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have shown. ABT-737 is one of a new class of anti-cancer agents called BH3 mimetics that target and neutralise the so-called Bcl-2 proteins in cancer cells...
Study Shows That Screening New Colon Cancer Patients For Lynch Syndrome Would Be Cost-Effective
7/19/2011
Screening every new colon cancer patient for a particular familial disorder extends lives at a reasonable cost, say Stanford University School of Medicine researchers. The team hopes the results will encourage more medical centers to adopt widespread screening policies...