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Novel stem cell line avoids risk of introducing transplanted tumors
11/10/2015
Progenitor cells might eventually be used to repair or rebuild damaged or destroyed organs.
Search-and-rescue proteins find, fix DNA mutations linked to cancer
11/10/2015
Proteins inside bacteria cells engage in "search-and-rescue"-type behavior to ferret out mismatched DNA and fix it to thwart dangerous mutations that can be associated with certain cancers, a...
Malignant network makes brain cancer resistant
11/10/2015
Incurable astrocytomas, including the particularly malignant glioblastomas, diffusively grow like mycelium into healthy brain tissue.
NTU scientists use dead bacteria to kill colorectal cancer
11/10/2015
Scientists from Nanyang Technological University (NTU Singapore) have successfully used dead bacteria to kill colorectal cancer cells.
Environmental factors may contribute to the development of some childhood cancers
11/10/2015
Environmental factors may be a contributory cause in the development of some childhood cancers, leading scientists have revealed.
Molecular clocks control mutation rate in human cells
11/10/2015
Cancer and aging could be predetermined by the speed of molecular clocks.Every cell in the human body contains a copy of the human genome.
Antibody targets key cancer marker; opens door to better diagnosis, therapy
11/10/2015
University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers have created a molecular structure that attaches to a molecule on highly aggressive brain cancer and causes tumors to light up in a scanning machine.
New study describes how glucose regulation enables malignant tumor growth
11/10/2015
A new study led by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J.
Professor Sarah O'Connor and Dr. Dave Lawson have identified, for the first time, the 3-D structure of the enzyme iridoid synthase responsible for a very specific form of cyclization of monoterpenes...
Complex grammar of the genomic language
11/10/2015
A new study from Sweden's Karolinska Institutet shows that the 'grammar' of the human genetic code is more complex than that of even the most intricately constructed spoken languages in the world.