Cancer Research

Stopping Cancer Drug Resistance At The Source

We have many great anti-tumor drugs that can do a fantastic job destroying the molecular insides of tumor cells. There is, however, a major catch: tumors have a nasty habit of become drug resistant. Such is the case with the breast cancer chemotherapeutic ...

Article - Michael White - Sep 27 2008 - 11:55am

PNPLA3 Gene Variants Boosts Risks Of Fatty Liver Disease

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have found that individuals who carry a specific form of the gene PNPLA3 have more fat in their livers and a greater risk of developing liver inflammation. They also found that Hispanics are more likely to carr ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2008 - 10:15am

Beta-catenin May Be 'Hub' For Fear In Mammals

A protein required for the earliest steps in embryonic development also plays a key role in solidifying fear memories in the brains of adult animals, scientists have revealed. An apparent "hub" for changes in the connections between brain cells, ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 28 2008 - 1:34pm

Radioactive 'Seeds' May Lead To Better Lung Cancer Prognosis

A new method of treatment could mean a dramatic difference in the way we look at and treat lung cancer. Developed over the past decade, a team of researchers at Allegheny General Hospital (AGH) in Pittsburgh has developed a new technique using a mesh of ra ...

Article - Erin Richards - Dec 15 2008 - 1:39am

Mass-Produced Smell Receptors Could Mean Artificial Noses

Smell is one of the most complex and least-understood senses. Humans have a vast olfactory system that includes close to 400 functional genes, more than are dedicated to any other function. Animals such as dogs and mice have around 1,000 functional olfacto ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 29 2008 - 4:43pm

Hormone Replacement Therapy And The Risk Of Heart Attacks

It's not what you take but the way that you take it that can produce different results in women who take hormone replacement therapy (HRT), according to new research on the association between HRT and heart attacks, published the European Heart Journ ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2008 - 10:35pm

Understanding Apoptosis In Cells May Lead To A Cancer Breakthrough

When a cell's chromosomes lose their ends, the cell usually kills itself to stem the genetic damage- University of Utah biologists say their discovery about how those cells evade suicide and start down the path to cancer may lead to new treatments. A ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 30 2008 - 11:16pm

Epstein-Barr Virus Protein Linked To Cancer

Researchers at the University of Toronto have shown that the EBNA1 protein of Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) disrupts structures in the nucleus of nasopharyngeal carcinoma (NPC) cells, thereby interfering with cellular processes that normally prevent cancer deve ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 2 2008 - 10:07pm

Flow Cytometry- Fighting Cancer One Cell At A Time

New research suggests that the identification and examination of key cell signaling events required for initiation and progression of cancer might be best accomplished at the single cell level. The research in Cancer Cell may lead to better diagnosis and t ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 6 2008 - 11:37am

Stem Cells For Healing Damaged Hearts? Inconclusive, Says Review

Recent studies indicate that infusing hearts with stem cells taken from bone marrow could improve cardiac function after myocardial infarction- tissue damage that results from a heart attack. But in a recent systematic review, Cochrane Researchers conclude ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 7 2008 - 4:34pm