Cancer Research

Still Feel Pain? It May Be All In Your Head

Ghost pains, it seems. Why do some people still feel discomfort long after their injuries have healed? The definitive answer-- and an effective treatment-- has long eluded scientists. Traditional analgesic drugs, such as aspirin and morphine derivatives, h ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 5 2007 - 1:34pm

Fate Might Not Be So Unpredictable After All

Why does it take so long for soul mates to find each other? How does disease spread through a person’s body? When will the next computer virus attack your hard-drive? A new theory published last month in Nature on the statistical concept of “First Passage ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 7 2007 - 9:41pm

All Calories Are The Same To The Brain

The brain can sense the calories in food, independent of the taste mechanism, researchers have found in studies with mice. Their finding that the brain’s reward system is switched on by this “sixth sense” machinery could have implications for understanding ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 27 2008 - 1:14pm

In Cancer, One Ring To Rule Them All

Imagine that a machine draws your blood, screens it for genetic mutations and chemical variations that can cause cancer, and then pops out a drug tailor-made for your DNA. The hypothetical drug would target and fix the point irregularities which have accum ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 1 2010 - 2:10pm

Immune Checkpoint Molecule Can Stop Cancer All By Itself

An immune checkpoint molecule, SA-4-1BB developed for cancer immunotherapy also protects against future development of multiple types of cancer when administered by itself, shows a new study. The recombinant protein molecule SA-4-1BBL has been used to enh ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2019 - 11:41am

Cryoablation Plus Nanoparticle-Encapsulated Chemo Makes Cancer Go Boom

relapse. In contrast, cryoablation combined with nDOX can effectively kill all CSCs, resulting in the ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 13 2014 - 9:58am

The Latest Technology May Not Have Transformed Your Health, But It Has Changed Science

technological options. The oldest option, all that was available in the pre-genome era, is based on a guess. You ...

Article - Michael White - Aug 2 2008 - 12:14pm

A 'Notch' In The Belt For Cancer Therapy R&D

kind of therapy is if you impact a signaling cascade high up the chain, you will have all sorts of ...

Article - Becky Jungbauer - Nov 14 2009 - 8:53pm

ID4 Gene Switch Might Tame Triple Negative Breast Cancers

Communications. "We found that ID4 is produced at high levels in roughly half of all triple negative breast ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 31 2015 - 9:00am

Evolution's Most Important Molecular Inventions

the P450 cytochromes are found in all life. What this means is that these incredibly useful systems ...

Article - Michael White - Aug 27 2008 - 6:55pm