Cancer Research

Caffeine May Protect Against Multiple Sclerosis

Caffeine has been found to protect mice from a disease similar to Multiple Sclerosis (MS), according to a new study. As if we needed another excuse to drink coffee. MS is disorder of the central nervous system marked by weakness, numbness, a loss of muscle ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2008 - 6:56pm

The Spiritual Effects Of Psilocybin In Those Sacred Mushrooms

In a follow-up to research showing that psilocybin, a substance contained in "sacred mushrooms," produces substantial spiritual effects, a Johns Hopkins team reports that those effects appear to last more than a year. Writing in the Journal of Ps ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 8:54am

H2S- Rotten Egg Smell May Save Lives In Extreme Blood Loss

For the first time, researchers have demonstrated that the administration of minute amounts of inhaled or intravenous hydrogen sulfide, or H2S – the molecule that gives rotten eggs their sulfurous stench – significantly improves survival from extreme blood ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 4:40pm

Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute Reaches 1 Terabase, 300 Human Genomes In 6 Months

The Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute has sequenced the equivalent of 300 human genomes in just over six months, reaching a staggering 1,000,000,000,000 letters of genetic code that will be read by researchers worldwide and aiding in the quest to understand ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2008 - 6:38pm

“Lab-on-a-Chip” Is A Realistic Goal In The Near Future

A portable chip that detects everything from food-borne diseases, pathogens and pollution in water, to AIDS, cancer, hepatitis, drug-abuse, and flu in humans in a little over an hour, is set to be commercially released in no more than three years, experts ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Mar 19 2009 - 8:43pm

Calorie Restriction And Longevity- If You Are Not A Mouse, You May Not Live Longer

Calorie restriction related to longevity is a hot topic. Calorie restriction slows the aging process in rats and mice but no one is sure how. One recently popular hypothesis is that it slows aging by decreasing a thyroid hormone, triiodothyronine (T3), wh ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2008 - 1:32pm

How Breast Cancer Cells Break Free And Form Metastases

When tumor cells acquire the capacity to move around and invade other tissues, there is a risk of metastases and cancer treatment becomes more difficult. At the Institut Curie, CNRS Director of Research Philippe Chavrier and his group have just discovered ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 6 2008 - 9:43am

Cellular 'Recycling' May Be Even Better Than The Environmental Kind

The jury is still out on the actual benefits of recycling as far as environmental impact but new research suggests that a cellular version could be useful for battling cancer. Scientists at Stanford University have identified a molecule that uses this unex ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2008 - 12:49pm

Understanding Epidemiology Could Lessen Impact Of Cancer False Positives

False-positive results are an inherent risk in cancer research, particularly in observational epidemiology studies. The frequency and impact of misleading results can be mitigated if researchers use more exacting standards when interpreting and reporting r ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2008 - 4:40pm

Argyrin- Myxobacterial Agent May Be Natural Hope For New Cancer Therapy

The effective treatment of many forms of cancer continues to pose a major problem. Many tumors fail to respond to standard forms of chemotherapy or become resistant to the medication. Scientists at the Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research (HZI) in Braun ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 8 2008 - 8:06pm