Cancer Research

Granzymes Attack Through Doors In Cell Pores

Our body is almost constantly being threatened by pathogens and cancerous cells that appear out of the blue, but our bodies put up a fight: specialized cells in the immune system smuggle small molecules (granzymes) into cancer cells and those body cells t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2008 - 5:46pm

Women: Half Of Early Deaths From Chronic Diseases Could Have Been Eliminated Through Lifestyle Changes

Over half of deaths in women from chronic diseases such as cancer and heart disease could be avoided if they never smoke, keep their weight in check, take exercise and eat a healthy diet low in red meat and trans-fats, according to a study published in BMJ ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 16 2008 - 9:23pm

MicroRNA Interference Gets Some New Respect In Embryonic Stem Cell Research

Scientists from IBM and the Genome Institute of Singapore (GIS) say their report in Nature shows that microRNAs, those small molecules that are an important regulatory component in the machinery of living cells, have roles that go well beyond what was pre ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2008 - 1:39pm

Diabetes Research: Human Skin Cells Turned Into Insulin-Producing Cells

Researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill School of Medicine have transformed cells from human skin into cells that produce insulin, the hormone used to treat diabetes. The breakthrough may one day lead to new treatments or even a cure ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 17 2008 - 8:22pm

There Is No 'Safe' Suntan- Study

Skin cancer is the most common malignancy in the US, says the American Academy of Dermatology, and one American dies every 62 minutes from melanoma. The WHO estimated that, in the year 2000, up to 71,000 deaths worldwide were attributed to excessive UV exp ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2008 - 1:33am

Squirrels Know A Cure For Cancer

Biologists at the University of Rochester writing in Aging Cell have found that small-bodied rodents with long lifespans have evolved a previously unknown anti-cancer mechanism that appears to be different from any anti-cancer mechanisms employed by human ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2008 - 1:43am

Why Does Chemotherapy Only Work Some Of The Time?

MIT researchers have shown that cells from different people don't all react the same way when exposed to the same DNA-damaging agent, a finding that could help clinicians predict how patients will respond to chemotherapy. The research team from MIT&# ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 18 2008 - 6:32pm

Cancer-Causing Gut Bacteria Implicated

There are more bacteria in our bodies than there ever have been people on the Earth. In fact, there are more bacteria in the colon than there are human cells in our bodies. Most of the bacteria in our guts are harmless and many are beneficial to our health ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 21 2008 - 2:32pm

Why We Will Always Have Cancer

In today's world, humans are at the top of the food chain. We have almost no natural predators as there are few animals that rely on humans as prey. Pathogens are the only exception. Viruses, bacteria, parasites and other classes of infectious agents ...

Blog Post - Erin Richards - Nov 17 2008 - 12:15pm

Bioinformatics Breakthrough- Complete Annotation Of Human Proteins

Professor Ron Appel, speaking at the 10th anniversary conference of the Swiss Institute of Bioinformatics in Berne, Switzerland, says they have completed the annotation of human proteins. Where the Human Genome Project produced a dictionary, this new work ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 24 2008 - 10:07am