Cancer Research

Canines And Cancer

One of the major issues associated with longer life expectancy in man and his best friend is an increase in the incidence of cancer. Dr Ali Mobasheri, an Associate Professor from the School of Veterinary Medicine and Science at The University of Nottingham ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2007 - 1:17pm

The Long-Standing Riddle Of What Enzyme Copies Genes

For the first time, it can now be shown what enzyme copies the genetic make-up of cells. The discovery is being published in the journal Science by researchers at Umeå University in Sweden in collaboration with a team in the U.S. led by Thomas A. Kunkel. T ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 12 2007 - 7:38pm

Superglue For Damaged DNA

When a strand of DNA breaks in the body's cells, it normally does not take long until it has been repaired. Now researchers at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have discovered a new mechanism that helps to explain how the cell perf ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 13 2007 - 10:48am

Cellular Confusion In Embryonic Stem And Specialized Adult Cells

Contrary to textbook models, many genes that should be 'off' in embryonic stem cells and specialized adult cells remain primed to produce master regulatory proteins, leaving those cells vulnerable to identity changes Biologists have long thought ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 1:57pm

New Use For A Cell Toxin Found To Inhibit Survival Proteins In Cancer Cells

A chemically-modified version of a mitochondrial toxin long used to control species of invasive fish in lakes has been found to selectively inhibit two "survival proteins” in cancer cells. The research is a first step toward developing a molecularly-t ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 2:13pm

Antibody Retards Growth And Induces Death In Liver Cancer Cells

Researchers from the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine report a significant new advance in the search for an effective treatment for human liver cancer in the July issue of Molecular Cancer Therapeutics. Using a newly available monoclonal antibod ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 2:15pm

Cytokine IL6 As A New Target For Pancreatic Cancer

By bypassing a well-known gene implicated in almost one-third of all cancers and instead focusing on the protein activated by the gene, Dr. Christopher Counter and colleagues at the Duke University Medical Center have identified IL6 as a new target in the ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 4:54pm

Suicide Cells

When a cell is seriously stressed, say by a heart attack, stroke or cancer, a protein called Bak just may set it up for suicide, researchers have found. In a deadly double whammy, Bak helps chop the finger-like filament shape of the cell’s powerhouse, or m ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 14 2007 - 10:33pm

Chlorotoxin Tumor Paint Shows Cancer Cells 500 Times Better Than MRI

A tumor paint developed by researchers will help surgeons see where a tumor begins and ends more precisely by illuminating the cancerous cells. The study shows that the tumor paint can help surgeons distinguish between cancer cells and normal brain tissue ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2007 - 1:10pm

Gene Discovered For Type 1 Diabetes In Children

Pediatrics researchers at The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and McGill University in Montreal have identified a gene variant that raises a child’s risk for type 1 diabetes, formerly called juvenile diabetes. As investigators continue to pinpoint gene ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 15 2007 - 4:38pm