Cancer Research

Epigenetics Of Generational Weight Gain

Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston who found that chemical changes in the ways genes are expressed – a phenom ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 10:29am

Niche Or Stem Cells; Which Came First May Be Decided In The Testes

Logic says that just as air and water preceded life, so must the 'niche', the hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in tissue and provides factors necessary to keep them young and vital, must have emerged before its stem cell dep ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 3:38pm

Ependymal Cells Discovery May Lead To Spinal-Cord Repair

A researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells following an injury, may lead to a new, non-surgical ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2008 - 12:03am

HMGB1 Protein Found To Promote DNA Repair, Prevent Cancer

An abundant chromosomal protein that binds to damaged DNA prevents cancer development by enhancing DNA repair, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report online this week in PNAS. The protein, HMGB1, was previously hypothesi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2008 - 12:08am

This Pond Scum Could Be The Key To New Cancer Therapies

Cyanobacteria, also referred to as blue-green algae or pond scum, is found in nearly every habitat, from oceans to fresh water to bare rocks to soil, and is a source of many unique chemical structures. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago ( ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2008 - 12:18am

How Safe Are Cell Phones? This Cancer Center Director Thinks Not Very

Ronald B. Herberman, MD, the director of the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute and UPMC Cancer Centers, issued the following directive to thousands of University of Pittsburgh employees: ******************************* FROM: Ronald B. Herberman, MD ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 23 2008 - 9:51pm

Red, White, And Blood

If the drinker paradox states that in any pub there is a customer such that, if he or she drinks, everybody in the pub drinks and the diamond-water paradox states that water is more useful than diamonds, yet is a lot cheaper, then the French paradox that t ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 24 2008 - 11:45am

Molecular Link Between Circadian Rhythm And Metabolism

UC Irvine researchers have found a molecular link between circadian rhythms, our body clock, and metabolism. The discovery reveals new possibilities for the treatment of diabetes, obesity and other related diseases. Circadian rhythms of 24 hours govern fun ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 24 2008 - 1:30pm

Balance In The Bones

As Albert Einstein once said about balance, "Life is like riding a bicycle. To keep your balance you must keep moving." The same is true of bone mineral density in testing for breast cancer—balance is better. The September 2008 issue of “CANCER” ...

Article - Audrey Amara - Jul 25 2008 - 5:17pm

Metals Helping Cure Cancer

A collaboration between chemists and biologists has made it possible to identify the effects of a new class of molecules, polyoxometalates, primarily composed of metals and oxygen. Polyoxometalates are anionic inorganic metal oxide structures that have val ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 26 2008 - 10:30am