Cancer Research

Alcoholics Anonymous Study- Is Coffee A Gateway Drug?

More than one million Americans currently participate in the Alcoholics Anonymous (AA) program. AA participants are stereotyped as being heavy coffee drinkers and cigarette smokers but very little research has quantified their consumption of these two pro ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 19 2008 - 11:01am

Link Between DNA Palindromes And Disease

Long DNA sequences, or palindromes, change the shape of the molecule from double helix to hairpin-like formation, which causes replication to stall. Altered or stalled replication causes chromosomal breaking, resulting in cancers and diseases. In the past ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 3:01am

Tissue Engineering Advance- Human Blood Vessels Grown In Mice From Adult Progenitor Cells

For the first time, researchers have successfully grown functional human blood vessels in mice using cells from adult human donors — an important step in developing clinical strategies to grow tissue, researchers report in Circulation Research: Journal of ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 10:21am

Epigenetics Of Generational Weight Gain

Overweight mothers give birth to offspring who become even heavier, resulting in amplification of obesity across generations, said Baylor College of Medicine researchers in Houston who found that chemical changes in the ways genes are expressed – a phenom ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 10:29am

Niche Or Stem Cells; Which Came First May Be Decided In The Testes

Logic says that just as air and water preceded life, so must the 'niche', the hospitable environment that shelters adult stem cells in tissue and provides factors necessary to keep them young and vital, must have emerged before its stem cell dep ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 20 2008 - 3:38pm

Precancerous Esophagus Disease Eliminated In 98.4% Of Patients Treated With HALO Ablation System

SUNNYVALE, California, July 21 /PRNewswire/--- Long-term study confirms treatment could help 3.3 million U.S. sufferers BARRX Medical, Inc. today announced that 98.4 percent of patients having a precancerous condition of their esophagus called Barrett ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 20 2008 - 11:31pm

Results From The SEAS (Simvastatin And Ezetimibe In Aortic Stenosis) Study

LONDON, July 21 /PRNewswire/-- The SEAS (Simvastatin and Ezetimibe in Aortic Stenosis) study has investigated the effects of intensive cholesterol lowering with the combination of simvastatin (40 mg daily) and ezetimibe (10 mg daily) in patients with aort ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Jul 21 2008 - 12:32pm

Ependymal Cells Discovery May Lead To Spinal-Cord Repair

A researcher at MIT's Picower Institute for Learning and Memory has pinpointed stem cells within the spinal cord that, if persuaded to differentiate into more healing cells and fewer scarring cells following an injury, may lead to a new, non-surgical ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2008 - 12:03am

HMGB1 Protein Found To Promote DNA Repair, Prevent Cancer

An abundant chromosomal protein that binds to damaged DNA prevents cancer development by enhancing DNA repair, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report online this week in PNAS. The protein, HMGB1, was previously hypothesi ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2008 - 12:08am

This Pond Scum Could Be The Key To New Cancer Therapies

Cyanobacteria, also referred to as blue-green algae or pond scum, is found in nearly every habitat, from oceans to fresh water to bare rocks to soil, and is a source of many unique chemical structures. Researchers at the University of Illinois at Chicago ( ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 22 2008 - 12:18am