Cancer Research

Prevotella Histicola- New Species Of Bacteria Found In The Human Mouth

Scientists have discovered a new species of bacteria in the mouth. The finding could help scientists to understand tooth decay and gum disease and may lead to better treatments, according to research published in the August issue of the International Journ ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2008 - 11:27pm

Solving The Cell: Will The Future Of Biology Be Boring?

How do you know when a scientific problem is finished? Biologists have been cracking open the cell and studying its molecular insides for a very long time now. How much more is there to learn? Perhaps it seems obvious that we are still missing much: we can ...

Article - Michael White - Aug 11 2008 - 12:08pm

MicroRNA MiR-126 Controls Blood Vessel Development

Scientists from the Gladstone Institute of Cardiovascular Disease (GICD) and UCSF have identified a key regulatory factor that controls development of the human vascular system, the extensive network of arteries, veins, and capillaries that allow blood to ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2008 - 1:32pm

Hox, Senseless And The Molecular Switch That Helps Decide Cell Type

Researchers have discovered a central molecular switch in fruit fly embryos that opens new avenues for studying the causes of birth defects and cancer in humans. Writing about their study in the Aug. 12 Developmental Cell, scientists at Cincinnati Children ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2009 - 11:36pm

Spawning New Species- Duke Researchers Say DNA Repairs May Reshape The Genome

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) say they have shown how broken sections of chromosomes can recombine to change genomes... and spawn new species. The scientists used X-rays ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2008 - 1:17pm

Discovery- Cancer's Three Developmental Signatures

A new systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene expression. The research, published recently in Genome Biology, describes how cancers can be divided into thre ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2008 - 10:04am

IAPs Research Causes Pre-Cancerous Cells To Self-Destruct

When a cell begins to multiply in a dangerously abnormal way, a series of death signals trigger it to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. In research in the August 15th issue of Genes & Development, Rockefeller University scientists using mice hav ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2008 - 6:36pm

Why Addicts Crave Cocaine

A possible future way to prevent relapses into drug dependence has been discovered by researchers at Linköping University and the German cancer research center DKFZ. The target is the dopamine-producing nerve cells in the midbrain. Earlier research has sho ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2008 - 1:25am

Spice-Based Synthetic Molecules Aim To Fight Against Cancer

Sometimes you can improve on nature. Researchers have used a spice-based compound to develop synthetic molecules that are able to kill cancer cells and stop the cells from spreading- in the lab, anyway. The miracle spice? Turmeric; specifically curcumin, a ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 17 2008 - 9:12pm

Don't Mix Drugs And... Grapefruit Juice?

Scientists and consumers have known for years that grapefruit juice can increase the absorption of certain drugs — with the potential for turning normal doses into toxic overdoses. Now, the researcher who first identified this interaction is reporting new ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 19 2008 - 9:26am