Cancer Research

How We Can Stop Stress From Making Us Obese

Professor Herbert Herzog, Director of the Neuroscience Research Program at the Garvan Institute of Medical Research, together with scientists from the US and Slovakia, have shown that neuropeptide Y (NPY), a molecule the body releases when stressed, can ‘u ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2007 - 1:46pm

Biomedical Engineers Use Electric Pulses To Destroy Cancer Cells

A team of biomedical engineers at Virginia Tech and the University of California at Berkeley has developed a new minimally invasive method of treating cancer, and they anticipate clinical trials on individuals with prostate cancer will begin soon. The pro ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2007 - 12:20pm

First Test Tube Baby From Frozen Egg Born

The first baby to be created from an egg that had been matured in the laboratory, frozen, thawed and then fertilised, has been born in Canada. Three other women are pregnant by the same process. The research was presented to the 23rd annual meeting of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2007 - 12:19pm

Researchers Discover Method For Identifying How Cancer Evades The Immune System

One of the fundamental traits of a tumor – how it avoids the immune system – might become its greatest vulnerability, according to researchers from the University of Southern California. Their findings, demonstrated in human breast and colorectal cancers, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2007 - 1:57pm

Marine Worm Opens New Window On Cancer Development

University of Oregon biologists studying a common ocean-dwelling worm have uncovered potentially fundamental insights into the evolutionary origin of genetic mechanisms, which when compromised in humans play a role in many forms of cancer. Their research, ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2007 - 2:01pm

M. D. Anderson Team Identifies New Oncogene For Brain Cancer

An overexpressed gene found at the scene of a variety of tumors is implicated in the development of two types of malignant brain cancer in a paper by researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center to be published in the Proceedings of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2007 - 4:25pm

Blood Protein Offers Clues To Heart Attacks In Seemingly Healthy People

We’ve all wondered how a seemingly healthy person can actually be at high risk for heart disease or a heart attack. Now researchers have uncovered a new clue to this mystery. The culprit: myeloperoxidase (MPO), a protein secreted by white blood cells that ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2007 - 4:34pm

Solved! Mystery Of How DNA Strands Separate

Cornell researchers have answered a fundamental question about how two strands of DNA, known as a double helix, separate to start a process called replication, in which genes copy themselves. The research, published in the current issue of the journal Cell ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 2 2007 - 5:04pm

P53 Gene Mutations And Inflammation Trigger Skin Cancer

Squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) is a form of nonmelanoma skin cancer, which is the most common type of human malignancy with over 1 million new cases in the USA each year. In the July 2 issue of the Journal of Clinical Investigation, two separate studies by ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 7 2007 - 11:20pm

Curing Cancer With 'Suicide Genes' Derived From Fat

It doesn't get more self-explanatory than that, does it? Researchers in Slovakia have been able to derive mesenchymal stem cells from human adipose, or fat, tissue and engineer them into “suicide genes” that seek out and destroy tumors like tiny homin ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 3 2007 - 3:48pm