Cancer Research

MicroRNAs And The Genetics Of Schizophrenia

Researchers at Columbia University Medical Center have illuminated a window into how abnormalities in microRNAs, a family of molecules that regulate expression of numerous genes, may contribute to the behavioral and neuronal deficits associated with schizo ...

Article - News Staff - May 31 2008 - 10:22pm

Soil Bacteria For Antibiotics Gets A Second Look

In 1928 Alexander Fleming discovered penicillin, which was subsequently developed into a medicine by Florey and Chain in the 1940s. The antibiotic was hailed as a 'miracle cure' and a golden age of drug discovery followed. However, frequent redis ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 1 2008 - 8:04pm

A New Molecular Mechanism For Colorectal Cancer: A New Target For Cancer Therapies

Scientists in Portugal just found a new molecular mechanism behind colorectal cancer in which a mutated and a normal, but over-expressed, gene cooperate and are both needed to create the disease. The research, published in the journal Gastroenteroloy1, als ...

Article - Catarina Amorim - Sep 19 2008 - 4:54pm

Synthetic Molecules Reduce Human Malignant Tissues In Mice

Synthetic molecules designed by two Hebrew University of Jerusalem researchers have succeeded in reducing and even eliminating the growth of human malignant tissues in mice, while having no toxic effects on normal tissue. The molecules developed by Dr. Ari ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2008 - 5:02pm

Unintended Consequence- Kylie Minogue's Breast Cancer Boosted Unnecessary Biopsies

Kylie Minogue's breast cancer triggered a surge of over 30 percent in breast imaging of low risk women, says new University of Melbourne study. Use of mammography and breast ultrasound procedures soared among women aged 25-44 in the six months followi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 4 2008 - 11:56pm

Moving From Chemistry To The Mechanics Of Cell Dynamics

Biology remains a wide-open field because it has accomplished a lot but still has a long way to go. The dominant view in cellular behavior, for example, has been that it is largely chemistry-driven but there is increasing recognition that the mechanical as ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2008 - 12:54pm

Smile, You're On Esophageal Candy Camera

Seeing images inside the body is nothing new, either with an endoscope or even a camera the size of a candy. In the case of a camera, the inside of the intestine can be seen as it makes its way through the intestine and transmits images of the intestinal v ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2008 - 7:30am

The Hidden World Of Protein Folding

The proteins upon which life depends share an attribute with paper airplanes: Unless folded properly, they just won't fly. But researchers have been puzzled by how the long, linear proteins cranked out by the ribosome factories in a cell are folded in ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 11 2008 - 8:54pm

Sleuthing The Evolutionary Trail Of Lou Gehrig's Disease

In a report in the current issue of the journal Cell, Dr. Hugo Bellen and colleagues at Baylor College of Medicine along with Dr. Michael Miller from the University of Alabama at Birmingham show how a single mutation in the human form of the VAMP-Associate ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 12 2008 - 12:20pm

Coffee Drinkers Have Slightly Lower Death Rate From Heart Disease

A new study published today in Annals of Internal Medicine has good news for coffee drinkers: Regular coffee drinking (up to 6 cups per day) is not associated with increased deaths in either men or women. In fact, both caffeinated and decaffeinated coffee ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2008 - 7:41pm