Cancer Research

Food And The Brain (Hint: Eat More Fish)

In addition to helping protect us from heart disease and cancer, a balanced diet and regular exercise can also protect the brain and ward off mental disorders, says Fernando Gómez-Pinilla, a UCLA professor of neurosurgery and physiological science who has ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 9 2008 - 8:18pm

Danish Researchers Hack The Immune System's Key Codes

A group of researchers at the Technical University of Denmark and the University of Copenhagen have developed models of neural networks that make it possible to simulate how the body protects itself from disease and predict the immune system’s access codes ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 10:23am

22 Genes That Control Embryonic Stem Cell Fate Identified

Scientists have identified about two dozen genes that control embryonic stem cell fate. The genes may either prod or restrain stem cells from drifting into a kind of limbo, they suspect. The limbo lies between the embryonic stage and fully differentiated, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 10 2008 - 12:24pm

Proteins And The Chamber Of Doom

Indiana Jones isn't the only one who has great adventures, apparently proteins do also. Researchers have uncovered a a slippery tube that funnels proteins into a 'chamber of doom' where they are shredded and recycled into the building blocks ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2008 - 11:36am

Myosin-I Molecular Motor Detects Minute Changes In Force

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine discovered that the activity of a specific family of nanometer-sized molecular motors called myosin-I is regulated by force. The motor puts tension on cellular springs that allow vibrations t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2008 - 12:23am

Ulcer Bacterium Found In 700 Year-Old Mexican Mummy

Remnants of the bacterium that causes stomach ulcers, Helicobacter pylori, (H. pylori) have been discovered in gastric tissue from North American mummies. A study of human remains believed to predate Columbus' discovery of the New World has shown for ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2008 - 11:26pm

Apoptosis Mystery- Why Does It Sometimes Cause An Immune System Response?

Every moment we live, cells in our bodies are dying. One type of cell death activates an immune response while another type doesn't. Now researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and St. Jude's Children's Research ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 17 2008 - 12:10pm

Alcoholics Anonymous Study- Is Coffee A Gateway Drug?

More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program. AA participants are stereotyped as being heavy coffee drinkers and cigarette smokers but very little research has quantified their consumption of these two pro ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2008 - 11:01am

Link Between DNA Palindromes And Disease

Long DNA sequences, or palindromes, change the shape of the molecule from double helix to hairpin-like formation, which causes replication to stall. Altered or stalled replication causes chromosomal breaking, resulting in cancers and diseases. In the past ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 3:01am

Tissue Engineering Advance- Human Blood Vessels Grown In Mice From Adult Progenitor Cells

For the first time, researchers have successfully grown functional human blood vessels in mice using cells from adult human donors — an important step in developing clinical strategies to grow tissue, researchers report in Circulation Research: Journal of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 10:21am