Cancer Research

Fat May Make Vitamin C Help Cancer Causing Chemicals

It's unclear if vitamin C supplements reduce cancer risk. They may actually increase it. Fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote, rather than prevent, the formation of certain cancer causing chemicals, reveals research published ahead of pri ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2007 - 12:25am

Study: Avocados May Help Prevent Oral Cancer

Nutrients taken from avocados are able to thwart oral cancer cells, killing some and preventing pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers, according to researchers at Ohio State University. Researchers found that extracts from Hass avocados k ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 4 2007 - 2:05pm

Genetically Engineered Clostridia Successfully Treat Tumors In Animals

Bacteria that thrive in oxygen starved environments have been used successfully to target cancer tumors, delivering gene therapy based anti-cancer treatments, according to scientists. For about half of cancer sufferers traditional treatments such as radiot ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 5 2007 - 5:48pm

STAT4 Gene Risk Factor For Rheumatoid Arthritis, Lupus

Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) and systemic lupus erythematosus (Lupus) are considered autoimmune inflammatory diseases, where the body’s immune system attacks healthy tissue. In RA, the immune system attacks the linings of the joints and sometimes other organs ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2007 - 10:53am

RNA Polymerase II And P53 Work Together To Repair DNA Damage

Scientists know that inside each cell, a little engine called RNA polymerase II does one essential job: It copies instructions from genes in the nucleus that get carried to production units in the rest of the cell to support our daily needs. Now researcher ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2007 - 11:03am

Estrogen Receptor Gene Model Provides Molecular Clues To Breast Cancer

New insights into the role of estrogen receptor in mammary gland development may help scientists better understand the molecular origin of breast cancer, according to new research from the University of Cincinnati. About a decade ago, U.S. scientists at th ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 6 2007 - 11:06am

Replacing Viruses With Biodegradable Polymers For Safer Gene Therapy

Gene therapy, a field of intense research for nearly 20 years, involves inserting new genes into patients' cells to fight diseases like cancer. It holds great promise but has yet to realize its full potential, in part because of safety concerns over t ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 7 2007 - 10:06am

'Swiss Army Enzyme' Helps Therapeutic Agents Evolve

Enzymes are proteins that act as catalysts in everything from single-celled organisms to humans. They promote chemical reactions in cells and are used widely in industry for everything from making beer and cheese to producing paper and biofuel. They are al ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 9 2007 - 4:27pm

Vitamin C May Help Stop Cancer- Just Not How We Thought

Nearly 30 years after Nobel laureate Linus Pauling famously and controversially suggested that vitamin C supplements can prevent cancer, a team of Johns Hopkins scientists have shown that in mice at least, vitamin C- and potentially other antioxidants- can ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 10 2007 - 4:19pm

'Junk' RNA Molecules May Be Important In Human Cancer

Research here shows that an obscure form of RNA, part of the protein-making machinery in all cells, might play an important role in human cancer. These ultraconserved non-coding RNAs (UCRs) have been considered “junk” by some researchers, but a new report ...

Article - News Staff - Sep 11 2007 - 5:39pm