Cancer Research

The case of a 47 year-old woman presenting a wide abdominal zone with vitiligo like hypopigmentation is reported. In 1977 she underwent, in the same site, melanoma (III Clarke's level) extirpation and local immunotherapy by DNCB (dinitrochlorobenzene) ...

Article - Camillo Di Cicco - Mar 6 2010 - 1:14pm

Created: Artificial 'Cells' That Boost Immune Response To Cancer

Using artificial cell-like particles, Yale biomedical engineers have devised a way to produce a 45-fold enhancement of T cell activation and expansion, an immune response important for a patient’s ability to fight cancer and infectious diseases. The artifi ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 26 2008 - 11:08am

Europeans And Africans Responses To Infections Influenced By Gene Expression

Differences in gene expression levels between people of European versus African ancestry can affect how each group responds to certain drugs or fights off specific infections, say researchers in the American Journal of Human Genetics. They used Affymetrix ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2008 - 2:07pm

Study: Make Cigarettes Safer By Removing The Hydrogen Peroxode In Smoke

While its known that cigarette smoking can cause cancer it has been unclear how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells to become cancerous. Researchers from U.C.- Davis say that hydrogen peroxide (or similar oxidants) in cigarette smoke is the culprit. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2008 - 2:33pm

Numerical Modeling Makes Sense Of HLA Data Chaos

Many areas of research and medicine rely critically upon knowing a person’s individual immune system proteins, as they determine an individual’s ability to fight disease or mistakenly attack their own tissues. However, obtaining this information is costly ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 29 2008 - 9:37am

Adult Stem Cell Changes Implicated In Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome

Adult stem cells may provide an explanation for the cause of a Hutchinson-Gilford Progeria Syndrome (HGPS), a rare disease that causes premature aging in children, according to researchers at the National Cancer Institute. These findings, the first to indi ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 2 2008 - 3:37pm

IGF-I Pathway Linked To Long Life In Centenarians

Mutations in genes governing an important cell-signaling pathway influence human longevity, scientists at the Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have found. The report is the latest finding in the Einstein researchers’ ongoing search ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 4 2008 - 1:01pm

P53 Gene Discovery Could Lead To Treacher Collins Syndrome Being Treated In The Womb

Scientists have discovered how to prevent certain craniofacial disorders in what could ultimately lead to at-risk babies being treated in the womb. University of Manchester researchers, working with colleagues at the Stowers Institute for Medical Research ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2008 - 6:22pm

27 Year Review Says Aspirin Could Help Prevent Breast Cancer

Anti-inflammatory drugs like aspirin may reduce breast cancer by up to 20 per cent, according to an extensive review carried out by experts at London’s Guy’s Hospital published in the International Journal of Clinical Practice. But they stress that further ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2008 - 6:59pm

MC-Fold Makes 3D RNA From Sequence Data

A team of bioinformaticians at the Université de Montréal (UdeM) report in Nature the discovery of a structural alphabet that can be used to infer the 3D structure of ribonucleic acid (RNA) from sequence data, providing new tools to understand the role of ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 6 2008 - 4:53pm