Health & Medicine - Nov 23, 2010 12:39 - 0 Comments

Tricking cancer cells to go suicidal

TULANE (US) — A new treatment that causes cancer cells to self-destruct while sparing surrounding healthy cells, has been successful in animal models. (more…)

Society & Culture - Nov 19, 2010 16:00 - 0 Comments

Cigarettes: Out of sight, out of mind

U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — Putting tobacco out of sight in stores can change young people’s attitudes about smoking, but won’t hurt retailers’ bottom line. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Oct 28, 2010 12:35 - 10 Comments

Pancreatic cancer: Slow and deadly

JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Pancreatic cancer develops and spreads much more slowly than scientists have thought, new research finds. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Oct 22, 2010 9:47 - 1 Comment

Low vitamin D may raise cancer risk

U. ROCHESTER (US) — Two new vitamin D studies suggest intriguing ties between a deficiency of D and breast and colon cancer, particularly among African Americans. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Oct 19, 2010 11:42 - 0 Comments

Keeping bone marrow transplants safe

U. MICHIGAN (US) — Researchers have discovered a new method to prevent the immune-system attacks that often occur following bone marrow transplants. (more…)

Science & Technology - Oct 13, 2010 9:40 - 0 Comments

Cancer clues in DNA magic rings trick

UC DAVIS (US) — New research shows, how like a conjuring trick with interlocking rings, two interlocked pieces of DNA are separated after DNA is copied or repaired. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Oct 8, 2010 10:51 - 1 Comment

Extra tool in DNA’s repair kit

VANDERBILT (US) — On a good day about one million bases in the DNA in a human cell are damaged. Now researchers have discovered a fundamentally new way that DNA-repair enzymes detect and fix that damage. (more…)

Science & Technology - Sep 28, 2010 13:25 - 1 Comment

‘Gold’ fish thrive as cancers die

RICE (US) — Gold nanoparticles and a laser pulse can detect and destroy diseased cells in living tissue by creating tiny, shiny vapor bubbles that reveal and then explode them. (more…)

Science & Technology - Sep 27, 2010 11:03 - 0 Comments

Cell division theory may settle debate

DUKE (US) — A new theory about how the process of mammalian cell division begins could provide insights into the initiation of disease, such as cancer. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Sep 14, 2010 9:55 - 0 Comments

Celeb cancers prompt public to act

U. WARWICK (UK)—As Hollywood actor Michael Douglas hits the news headlines as the latest celebrity to reveal his cancer diagnosis, new research suggests media coverage of celebrity illnesses can have benefits for public health. (more…)

Science & Technology - Sep 8, 2010 13:46 - 7 Comments

RNA therapy turns cancer cells suicidal

CALTECH (US)—Researchers have engineered a fundamentally new approach to killing cancer cells. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Sep 1, 2010 8:04 - 0 Comments

Without glue, cells tend to go rogue

UC SANTA BARBARA (US)—A protein that helps make cells sticks together also keeps them from dividing excessively, a hallmark of cancer progression. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Aug 18, 2010 17:14 - 1 Comment

Chinese herbs ease chemo side effects

YALE (US)—A combination of Chinese herbs in use for more than 1,800 years reduced the gastrointestinal side effects of chemotherapy in mice, while actually enhancing the effects of the cancer treatment, researchers report. (more…)

Science & Technology - Aug 5, 2010 11:09 - 0 Comments

Sponge genome wrings out evolutionary clues

UC SANTA BARBARA (US)—Scientists have sequenced the complete genome of a living marine sponge dating back hundreds of millions of years. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jul 30, 2010 11:06 - 0 Comments

Shuttle keeps cells from going cannibal

U. PENN (US)—Researchers have described a previously unknown biological mechanism in cells that prevents them from consuming themselves for fuel. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jul 28, 2010 11:20 - 1 Comment

Nano-protein pair kill cancer cells

UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US)—A normally benign protein found in the human body appears to be able—when paired with nanoparticles—to zero in on and kill certain cancer cells, without the use of chemotherapy drugs. (more…)

Health & Medicine - Jul 8, 2010 12:01 - 1 Comment

Quantum dots detect rare cancer cells

EMORY/GEORGIA TECH (US)—Scientists have demonstrated that quantum dots—tunable fluorescent nanoparticles—make ideal tools for distinguishing and identifying rare cancer cells in tissue biopsies. (more…)

Science & Technology - Jul 7, 2010 9:58 - 0 Comments

Computer simulates super-fast protein fold

RICE (US)—A computer program is allowing researchers to accurately simulate protein folding dramatically faster than previous methods. (more…)

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