Cancer Research

RNAi Shows Promise In Gene Therapy, Stanford Researcher Says

Three years ago Mark Kay, MD, PhD, published the first results showing that a biological phenomenon called RNA interference could be an effective gene therapy technique. Since then he has used RNAi gene therapy to effectively shut down the viruses that ca ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2007 - 11:43am

Cancer Is A Stem Cell Issue, Says European Science Foundation

There is an urgent reason to study stem cells: stem cells are at the heart of some, if not all, cancers. Mounting evidence implicates a clutch of rogue stem cells brandishing ‘epigenetic’ marks as the main culprits in cancer. Wiping out tumours for good, ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 19 2007 - 12:48pm

Fetal Heart-cell Enzyme Important In Onset Of Heart Failure

In almost all forms of heart failure, the heart begins to express genes that are normally only expressed in the fetal heart. Researchers have known for years that this fetal-gene reactivation happens, yet not what regulates it. Now, investigators at the U ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 20 2007 - 11:06am

Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Scientists Discover New Gene That Prevents Multiple Types Of Cancer

A decades-old cancer mystery has been solved by researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory (CSHL). "We not only found a critical tumor suppressor gene, but have revealed a master switch for a tumor suppressive network that means more targeted and ef ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2007 - 12:14am

Opening And Closing The Genome

At any given time, most of the roughly 30,000 genes that constitute the human genome are inactive, or repressed, closed to the cellular machinery that transcribes genes into the proteins of the body. In an average cell, only about one in ten genes is acti ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 22 2007 - 8:01pm

Brain Food Part 1

On the Shangri-la diet forums, many dieters have reported better sleep. (”Woke up feeling like I could fight tigers. Have not felt this way since 2003.... I would stay on this method just for the sleep benefits,” wrote bekel.) To learn how widespread this ...

Article - Seth Roberts - Apr 17 2007 - 6:34pm

Researchers Safely Regenerate Failing Mouse Hearts With Programmed Embryonic Stem Cells

Mayo Clinic researchers have safely transplanted cardiac preprogrammed embryonic stem cells into diseased hearts of mice successfully regenerating infarcted heart muscle without precipitating the growth of a cancerous tumor-- which, so far, has impeded su ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 27 2007 - 11:52pm

UW Scientists Unlock Major Number Theory Puzzle

Mathematicians have finally laid to rest the legendary mystery surrounding an elusive group of numerical expressions known as the "mock theta functions." Number theorists have struggled to understand the functions ever since the great Indian mat ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2007 - 12:01am

MIT Bioengineer Advances Survival, Promise Of Adult Stem Cells

MIT researchers have developed a technique to encourage the survival and growth of adult stem cells, a step that could help realize the therapeutic potential of such cells. Adult stem cells, found in many tissues in the body, are precursor cells for speci ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2007 - 12:04am

Unique Tomatoes Tops In Disease-fighting Antioxidants

Deep red tomatoes get their rich color from lycopene, a disease-fighting antioxidant. ...

Article - News Staff - Feb 28 2007 - 12:12am