Cancer Research

Mammography- Gold Standard Or Pyrite Placebo?

Common Sense 101: if benefits outweigh the costs, generally people will opt in to whatever action is under consideration. If you can prevent or reduce your chance of death from cancer by early screenings at a nominal fee, you will probably get screened. No ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - May 15 2008 - 5:00pm

Caloric Restriction- Mouse Study Says Dieting Is Better Than Exercise For Longevity

A study investigating aging in mice has found that hormonal changes that occur when mice eat significantly less may help explain an already established phenomenon: a low calorie diet can extend the lifespan of rodents, a benefit that even regular exercise ...

Article - News Staff - May 13 2008 - 11:53pm

Reduced Dietary Fat Prevents Prostate Cancer In Mice

Scientists with UCLA’s Jonsson Cancer Center and the Department of Urology have showed that lowering intake of the type of fat common in a Western diet helps prevent prostate cancer in mice, the first finding of its kind in a mouse model that closely mimic ...

Article - News Staff - May 14 2008 - 11:56pm

Neighborhood Correlation- Understanding Evolution Of Multi-Domain Genes

Identifying gene ancestry is crucial for computational genomics because genes passed down from a common ancestor tend to perform similar functions in the cell. Scientists exploit this similarity in tasks like predicting gene function, mapping human chromos ...

Article - News Staff - May 15 2008 - 8:37pm

What Makes Cells Tick? Reverse Engineering Biological Cycles

Physics can explain the cycle of the earth around the sun, but what drives cellular cycles? Two of the most important cycles in cells are the series of events that take place when cells divide, and circadian rhythms- the cycle of day-night events that even ...

Article - Michael White - May 16 2008 - 8:24am

Vitamin D And Breast Cancer Linked Again

Using newly available data on worldwide cancer incidence, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine have shown a clear association between deficiency in exposu ...

Article - News Staff - May 16 2008 - 12:15am

Everolimus Targets MTOR Protein, Delays Kidney Cancer Progression In Clinical Trials

New data from an international, multicenter Phase III clinical trial has found that the experimental targeted therapy everolimus (RAD001) significantly delays cancer progression in patients with metastatic kidney cancer whose disease had worsened on other ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2008 - 10:44am

Hormone In Pituitary Gland May Alter A Fertility 'Thermostat', Say Researchers

Changing the sugars attached to a hormone produced in the pituitary gland increased fertility levels in mice nearly 50 percent, a research group at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis has found. The change appears to alter a reproductive ...

Article - News Staff - May 17 2008 - 11:06am

CancerSys- Systems Biology Approach Goes From Mathematics To Visible Changes In Liver Cancer

With systems biology methods, CancerSys investigates molecular- and cell-biological processes in the formation of tumors in the liver Systems Biology is a young field with the overall aim of creating a holistic picture of dynamic life processes with regard ...

Article - News Staff - May 18 2008 - 6:14pm

Herbal Medicine Gets A Look In Pancreatic Cancer Treatment

Pancreatic cancer, the fourth-leading cause of cancer death in this country, takes some 34,000 lives a year. It's usually detected after it has already spread and only 4 percent of individuals with pancreatic cancer live for five years after diagnosis ...

Article - News Staff - May 19 2008 - 11:10am