Posts Tagged ‘tumor’
New route to remove skull tumors
JOHNS HOPKINS (US) — Surgeons have found a new route to tumors buried at the base of the skull: through the natural hole behind the molars. Continue…
Monday, October 31, 2011 8:58 - 2 Comments
Health & Medicine - Oct 24, 2011 10:52 - 2 Comments
Imaging scope may lead to fewer biopsies
CORNELL (US) — A new imaging scope that can be inserted safely into a patient’s body could minimize the need for unnecessary biopsies. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Aug 29, 2011 10:57 - 0 Comments
How gene linked to cancer moves cells
CORNELL (US) — Mutations to the p53 gene have been linked to half of all cancers, and now researchers have identified how the gene controls cell movement and invasion into other areas of the body. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 8, 2011 10:57 - 0 Comments
Early cells in deadly brain cancer found
U. OREGON (US) — Biologists have isolated the earliest cells to show abnormal growth in the fatal brain cancer glioma—the same cancer that killed U.S. Sen. Ted Kennedy in 2009. (more…)
Science & Technology - Apr 11, 2011 10:52 - 0 Comments
Bird embryos show cells move en masse
GEORGIA TECH (US) — Scientists studying bird embryos are learning new details about a developmental process involving the mass migration of cells as a sheet. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Feb 7, 2011 17:33 - 0 Comments
Cell metabolism linked to deadly tumors
DUKE (US) — The discovery that genetic mutations found in brain tumors can alter tumor metabolism could pave the way for targeted anti-cancer drug designs. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 14, 2011 14:16 - 2 Comments
Salamander eggs turn off cancer
U. NOTTINGHAM (UK) — Researchers have found a way to switch on tumor suppressor genes—and turn off cancer growth—using an extract from eggs of the axolotl salamander. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 7, 2011 15:04 - 0 Comments
Tumor gets start in stem cell’s daughter
U. ROCHESTER (US) — The most common type of malignant brain tumor gets its start in cells known as glial progenitor cells—often referred to as “daughter” cells of stem cells. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Dec 20, 2010 16:11 - 3 Comments
‘Whole new way in’ to brain tumors
BROWN U. (US) — A specific genetic mutation appears to be at the center of a metabolic meltdown associated with lethal brain tumors known as gliomas. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jul 30, 2010 15:11 - 4 Comments
Diet linked to changes in breast cancer DNA
BROWN (US)—A new study suggests that epigenetic profiles of breast cancer tumors have a direct association with diet, alcohol, and tumor size. The finding could offer a new way to predict the severity of the disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jun 2, 2010 16:57 - 0 Comments
Nanosponge delivers better than injection
VANDERBILT (US)—When loaded with an anticancer drug, a delivery system based on a novel material called nanosponge is three to five times more effective at reducing tumor growth than direct injection. (more…)
Health & Medicine - May 3, 2010 5:05 - 0 Comments
Polarity gene key to breast tumor growth
MCGILL (CAN)—New research helps explain why breast-milk cells lose their structure, causing them to clump up in strange ways and sometimes become cancer tumors. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 29, 2010 16:25 - 0 Comments
Fluorescent compounds make tumors glow
VANDERBILT (US)—A series of novel imaging agents could light up tumors as they begin to form—before they turn deadly—and signal their transition to aggressive cancers. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Apr 29, 2010 0:23 - 0 Comments
Protein shows up early in deadly cancer
UNC-CHAPEL HILL (US)—A newly identified molecular marker of pancreatic cancer may help spot the disease at its earliest stages, when it can be treated more successfully with surgery. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 23, 2010 15:47 - 1 Comment
Heart-friendly walnuts help prostate, too
UC DAVIS (US)—Walnut consumption slows the growth of prostate cancer in mice and has beneficial effects on multiple genes related to the control of tumor growth and metabolism. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Mar 22, 2010 23:40 - 2 Comments
Nanoparticles ferry interfering RNA into tumors
CALTECH (US)—Researchers have demonstrated the feasibility of using both nanoparticles and RNA interference in patients, opening the door for future “game-changing” therapeutics that attack cancer and other diseases at the genetic level, says lead researcher Mark Davis. (more…)
Science & Technology - Jan 19, 2010 13:57 - 3 Comments
Maggot to fruit fly: Clues to cancer growth
U. ROCHESTER—Scientists trying to understand how cancer cells invade healthy tissue have used the fruit fly’s metamorphosis as a guide to identify a key molecular signal that may be involved in both processes. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 15, 2010 17:16 - 4 Comments
Trigger: Stress kick starts tumor growth
YALE—New research shows stress sends signals that cause cells to develop into tumors. The findings reveal a novel way cancer takes hold in the body—and suggests new ways to attack the deadly disease. (more…)
Health & Medicine - Jan 14, 2010 17:00 - 2 Comments
Picking out a tumor’s cancer causers
YALE—Researchers have demonstrated for the first time how distinct groups of cells from the same tumor are capable of forming tumors. (more…)
