Cancer Research

Mediterranean Diet Effective In Chronic Disease Prevention

The 'Mediterranean' Diet is effective in chronic diseases such as cardiovascular diseases, cancer, diabetes, hypertension or osteoporosis,say researchers at the University of Granada. It may be possible to prevent 80% of cardiovascular diseases a ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2008 - 7:50pm

Water Bears Can Even Survive Unprotected In Space

Space is extremely cold, near absolute zero, and it is a vacuum, so no oxygen, plus there is the threat of lethal radiation from stars. It is considered the most hostile of environments, where unprotected humans would last for a fraction of a second. But r ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 4:33pm

'Switching Off' Skin Cancer Development

The protein IKKalpha (IKKα) regulates the cell cycle of keratinocytes and plays a key role in keeping these specialized skin cells from becoming malignant, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in Cancer Cell. Keratinoc ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 12:52pm

Glioblastoma- Cancer Genome Atlas Reports First Results

In an article in Nature, The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) has reported results from its first comprehensive study which focused on the deadly brain cancer glioblastoma. The TCGA team, comprised of more than 100 investigators from seven cancer centers and re ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 8 2008 - 4:38pm

Not Just Smoking- Chromosome 15 Brings 5X Lunger Cancer Risk

A narrow region on chromosome 15 contains genetic variations strongly associated with familial lung cancer, says a study conducted by scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and other institutions in the United States and the Un ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2008 - 3:39pm

Are We Losing The War On Cancer?

Imagine that instead of setting out to invent a better lightbulb, Thomas Edison had announced his intention to invent a light-emitting diode that you could use to illuminate your kitchen. This isn't completely far-fetched: the first examples of light- ...

Article - Michael White - Sep 9 2008 - 4:16pm

Nature Editors on the Complexity and Simplicity of Cancer

Tomorrow's issue of Nature discusses the next steps in cancer research (subscription required for the full text): A tumour cell is a genetic disaster area littered with mutations that differ not only from one type of cancer to the next, but from one p ...

Blog Post - Michael White - Oct 22 2008 - 10:40pm

Want To Know What The Inside Of The Body Really Looks Like? It Takes This 35-Ton Beast

In hospitals and clinics, magnetic resonance imaging is quite common today. Clinicians like it because it shows much better images of soft tissues than computed tomography (CT) and uses no ionizing radiation. What it does use is a powerful magnetic field. ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 12 2008 - 10:42am

CDK8 Gene Implicated In Many Colon Cancers

Demonstrating that despite the large number of cancer-causing genes already identified, many more remain to be found, scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have linked a previously unsuspected gene, CDK8, to colon cancer. The discovery of CDK8's ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 14 2008 - 10:33pm

Genes Associated With Childhood Brain Cancer Ependymoma Identified

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have isolated three important genes involved in the development of a type of childhood brain cancer. The breakthrough is revealed in a study published in the British Journal of Cancer today. Researchers from the ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 15 2008 - 9:39am