Cancer Research

Calorie Restriction Diets Inhibit Develop Of Skin Cancer- Study

Researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report that a restricted-calorie diet inhibited the development of precancerous growths in a two-step model of skin cancer, reducing the activation of two signaling pathways known to contr ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 14 2008 - 10:43am

Akt May Mean Better Cancer Treatments Using Sugar

Researchers at the Duke School of Medicine apparently have solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a mechanism that could lead to better cancer treatments. Jonathan Coloff, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Jeffrey R ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2008 - 9:16pm

Genome-Wide DNA Methylation And Transcriptomes At Single Base Resolution

The chemical marks littering the DNA inside our cells have been like trees in front of us- important, but we couldn't see the whole forest so we could study one gene at a time. New high-throughput DNA sequencing technology has enabled researchers at t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2008 - 11:32am

How Cells Protect Themselves Against Genetic Mistakes

The blueprint for the human body is encoded in genes. Gene expression is the process by which those blueprints are converted into proteins that make up the body’s structures and send its signals. When molecular biologists began analyzing the complete set o ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2008 - 11:45am

Vitamin D Inhibits Post-Menopausal Breast Cancer- Clinical Results

A connection between vitamin D level and the risk of developing breast cancer has been implicated for a long time, but its clinical relevance had not yet been proven. Sascha Abbas and colleagues from the working group headed by Dr. Jenny Chang-Claude at th ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2008 - 9:08am

Einstein's Theory Gets Support From 18 Billion Suns

A close binary system of two candidate black holes in the quasar OJ 287 has shown Einstein some physics love. A central black hole, with a mass equal to 18 billion times that of the Sun, is orbited by a smaller one, and the interaction of the system with i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2008 - 10:38pm

Chocolate And Cholesterol- At Some Point It's Okay To Call B.S.

John Erdman, a University of Illinois professor of food science and human nutrition who also chairs the Mars, Inc. Scientific Advisory Council and has received millions in funding from Mars, Inc., recognizes that taking money from a candy bar company (Mars ...

Article - Hank Campbell - Feb 14 2009 - 11:28pm

Have We Stopped Living Longer?

A new study has found that between 1983 and 1999, the death rate in women increased in a large number of the worst-off counties in the US, primarily because of chronic diseases related to smoking, high blood pressure, and obesity. As a result of this stagn ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 22 2008 - 9:39am

Basic Science Discoveries Yield Progress In Hepatology

MILAN, April 26 /PRNewswire/-- At today's sessions of the 43rd Annual Meeting of the European Association for the Study of the Liver (EASL), experts reported advances in basic research that have important implications for the eventual treatment of pe ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 26 2008 - 12:20am

CYP1A2 Gene Variant May Cause Coffee To Prevent Breast Cancer

Depending on which variant of the gene CYP1A2 a woman has, a coffee consumption rate of at least two cups a day can either reduce the total risk of developing breast cancer or delay the onset of cancer, according to new research from Lund University and Ma ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 27 2008 - 11:53am