Graphene 'flying carpet' technique delivers one-two punch of anticancer drugs
1/09/2015
An international team of researchers has developed a drug delivery technique that utilizes graphene strips as "flying carpets" to deliver two anticancer drugs sequentially to cancer cells, with each...
Key cancer-promoting gene uncovered
1/09/2015
One of the mysteries in cancer biology is how one protein, TGF-beta, can both stop cancer from forming and encourage its aggressive growth.
Vanderbilt-led team studies blood test for prostate cancer
1/08/2015
Vanderbilt University researcher William Mitchell, M.D., Ph.D., and colleagues in Germany and Canada have demonstrated a method for detecting "cell-free" tumor DNA in the bloodstream.
More than a third of people with abnormal results drop out of bowel cancer screening
1/08/2015
Almost 40 per cent of people who have abnormal results from bowel cancer screening tests and are referred for further investigation ignore their next screening invitation two years later, according...
HPV vaccination not associated with increased risk of multiple sclerosis
1/08/2015
Although some reports have suggested a link between human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and development of multiple sclerosis or other demyelinating diseases (a group of central nervous system...
cCAM Biotherapeutics, a biopharmaceutical company focused on the discovery and development of novel cancer immunotherapies, has announced that it has received approval form the US Food and Drug...
Barts Health joins pioneering DNA study, UK
1/08/2015
Barts Health NHS Trust is among six London hospital trusts who have come together to launch a pioneering study using patient genetics (DNA) to create personalised treatment for people with cancer...
HPV vaccination not associated with increased risk of multiple sclerosis
1/08/2015
Although some reports have suggested a link between human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccination and development of multiple sclerosis or other demyelinating diseases (a group of central nervous system...
Body clock protects cells from metabolism-generated oxygen radical damage during division
1/08/2015
UC Irvine scientists studying the role of circadian rhythms in skin stem cells found that this clock plays a key role in coordinating daily metabolic cycles and cell division.
'Killer T cells' primed to distinguish and destroy shape-shifting HIV, new study
1/08/2015
Findings of a new study reveal why attempts to eradicate latent HIV have failed and offer a strategy that could help to form a therapeutic vaccine to eradicate HIV from the body.