New imaging technique reveals why immune cells fails to keep breast cancer in...
University of California, San Francisco researchers have used a novel breast cancer imaging technique in mice to uncover new hints to why the human immune system fails to attack tumors and keep cancer...
View ArticleThyroid cancer treatment improved with SPECT/CT imaging
The use of single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT imaging is changing the clinical management in a significant number of thyroid cancer patients, according to research in the May...
View ArticleBlocking protein recycling to kill tumor cells
All cells can recycle unwanted proteins and reuse the building blocks as food. Cancer cells ramp up this system, called autophagy, and rely on it to escape damage from chemotherapy and other...
View ArticleResearchers discover molecule that inhibits estrogen
A research team at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has discovered a molecule in animal studies that inhibits the action of estrogen. The female hormone estrogen plays a key...
View ArticleCancer-fighting substance in soybeans easily extracted by soaking in water
Soaking soybeans in warm water could be a much easier, environmentally friendly way of extracting a cancer-fighting substance that is currently manufactured in a complicated industrial process....
View ArticleStem cells protect from side effects of chemotherapy
Scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have transplanted brain cancer patients' own gene-modified blood stem cells in order to protect their bone marrow against chemotherapy’s toxic side...
View Article3-D image guided treatment helps avoid hysterectomies for cervical cancer...
Delivering radiotherapy directly to cervical cancer using 3-D imaging techniques is effective at controlling the return and spread of the disease and, in most cases, avoids the need for...
View ArticleUltrasensitive biosensor promising for diagnostics and personalized medicine
Researchers have created an ultrasensitive biosensor that could open up new opportunities for early detection of cancer and personalized medicine tailored to the specific biochemistry of individual...
View ArticleNew chemical target for inflammation treatment
Researchers from The Scripps Research Institute recently conducted a study in which they discovered new chemical compounds that inhibit an enzyme called PRMT1 (protein arginine methyltransferase 1)...
View ArticleHigh-speed DNA decoding predicts cancer relapse
A study led by researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has found that high-throughput sequencing, a high-speed DNA-decoding technology, detects the earliest signs of relapse in nearly...
View ArticleGoogle goes cancer: Using the search engine’s algorithm to find cancer...
The strategy Google uses to decide which pages are relevant to a search is being used to determine which proteins in cancer are relevant for the progression of the disease. Researchers from Dresden...
View ArticleStatin therapy prevents cancer risk
Skin cancer, colorectal cancer, prostate cancer or lymphoma sometimes occur after a heart transplant because of the immune suppressing drugs used to prevent rejection of the new heart. A recent study...
View ArticleNon-invasive thermometer uses fluorescent proteins to measure cell temperatures
A team from the Institute of Photonic Sciences (ICFO) in Spain has developed a novel non-invasive cellular thermometer. The method uses green fluorescent proteins (GFP) to measure intracellular...
View ArticleScientists unveil epigenetic "driver" events for cancer cell survival
Cancer cells are characterized by uncontrolled proliferation due to genetic and/or epigenetic changes. The wide scope of such changes poses a key challenge to researchers: what distinguishes “driver”...
View ArticleAntibodies could lead to a better chemotherapy delivery system
A new method of delivering chemotherapy drugs could eliminate the heavy price of the treatment. Because the cell-killing therapy targets fast-growing cells, it destroys some healthy cells as well as...
View ArticleNew therapy for prostate cancer combines hormone and vaccine treatments
A new treatment for prostate cancer utilizes both vaccine and hormone therapies. It is currently undergoing a clinical trial examining its effectiveness in treating prostate cancer that is resistant...
View ArticleResearchers use nanotechnology to greatly increase sensitivity of biological...
Princeton researchers have developed a way to make a common biological test more than 3 million times more sensitive. The greatly increased performance of the test, called an immunoassay, could lead...
View ArticleNanoparticles could help treat resistant form of cancer
Researchers from the University of Notre Dame have developed nanoparticles that could treat a devastating, incurable cancer. Multiple myeloma (MM) is a cancer of plasma cells in bone marrow that in...
View Article"Paradigm-changing" Cancer Therapy
Scientists from Yale University have created what they call, “a paradigm-changing immunotherapeutic method for cancer therapy.” The Yale team’s new method for attacking cancer comes in form of a...
View ArticleLighting up Brain Tumors
Performing surgery to remove brain tumors is tricky (to say the least) because primary brain tumors look just like ordinary brain tissue. While fluorescent imaging works with most tumors, it is not...
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