Cancer Research

Small Agricultural Changes May Prevent Widespread Disease

Small changes in agricultural and sanitation practices may eliminate the spread of a disease that affects some 200 million people living in developing nations around the world. Researchers working in remote farming villages in western China report that pro ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 3 2007 - 9:10pm

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

Low Testosterone May Cost You More Than Sex

Low levels of testosterone may increase the long-term risk of death in men over 50 years old, according to researchers with the Department of Family and Preventive Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. "The new study ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2007 - 9:21pm

Largest Synthetic Gene Ever Built

Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center say they are moving closer to understanding why the most lethal form of human malaria has become resistant to drug treatment in the past three decades. They have been able to artificially construct, and t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 9 2007 - 1:23pm

Not Just For Diaper Rash- Talcum Powder Stunts Growth Of Lung Tumors

Talcum powder has been used for generations to soothe babies’ diaper rash and freshen women’s faces. But University of Florida researchers report the household product has an additional healing power: The ability to stunt cancer growth by cutting the flow ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2010 - 12:23am

Loss Of Stem Cells Correlates With Premature Aging In Animal Study

Researchers at the Abramson Family Cancer Research Institute of the University of Pennsylvania have found that deleting a gene important in embryo development leads to premature aging and loss of stem cell reservoirs in adult mice. This gene, ATR, is essen ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 6 2007 - 3:28pm

UCLA Researchers Develop New Nanomaterials To Deliver Anti-cancer Drugs To Cells

Researchers at UCLA have successfully manipulated nanomaterials to create a new drug-delivery system that promises to solve the challenge of the poor water solubility of today’s most promising anticancer drugs and thereby increase their effectiveness. The ...

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

Soon Playing On A Screen Near You- Cell Migration

Johns Hopkins researchers have found a way to directly observe cell migration-- in real time and in living tissue. The scientists say their advance could lead to strategies for controlling both normal growth and the spread of cancer, processes that depend ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2007 - 6:06pm

Breast Cancer Drug May Protect Heart

By uncovering how one breast cancer drug protects the heart and another does not, Duke University Medical Center researchers believe they may have opened up a new way to screen drugs for possible heart-related side effects and to develop new drugs. The Duk ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2007 - 11:44pm

With Diet, Exercise, Survivors Reduce Chance Of Future Breast Cancer Death By 50 Percent

Breast cancer survivors who eat a healthy diet and exercise moderately can reduce their risk of dying from breast cancer by half, regardless of their weight, suggests a new longitudinal study from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, S ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 8 2007 - 11:13pm