Location: Heidelberg, Germany
Researchers in Heidelberg discover new protein that is suppressed in
particularly aggressive cancer cell.
If cancer cells lack a certain protein, it could be much easier for them to
penetrate healthy body tissue, the first step...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
The human heart has a notorious reputation for being unable to heal itself,
but new research suggests it is capable of at least some self-repair. Using
carbon dating to gauge the age of heart cells, scientists have found that low
numbers...
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Location: Stockholm, Sweden
Every year, millions of people are diagnosed with cancer - a remarkably high
number. But what about the flipside of those statistics? That is, two out of
three people never get cancer, and more than half of heavy smokers don’t get...
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Location: California, United States
Researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed a versatile mouse model of glioblastoma—the most common and deadly brain cancer in humans—that closely resembles the development and progression of human brain...
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Location: Jerusalem, Israel
By injecting stem cells directly into the brain, scientists have successfully reversed neural birth defects in mice whose mothers were given heroin during pregnancy. Even though most of the transplanted cells did not survive, they induced the...
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Location: Yoshida-Honmachi, Sakyo-ku, Kyoto 606-8501, ,Kyoto UniversityJapan Tel: +81-75-753-7531, Japan
Many types of catechin in green tea called polyphenols that one group is
included. These types of catechin in green tea is very astringent component of
the antioxidant action of a lot of attention is being used in health foods.
Also,...
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Location: Ottawa, Canada
A team of Canadian researchers has just completed a major step forward in the field of virotherapy oncolytique, to transform certain viruses destructive weapons of tumor cells.
As explained by John Hiscott of the Faculty of Medicine at McGill...
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Location: Michigan, United States
A gene that is overexpressed in 20 percent of breast cancers
increases the number of cancer stem cells, the cells that fuel a tumor’s growth
and spread, according to a new study from the University of Michigan...
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Location: 445 N. Fifth Street,Phoenix, AZ 85004, United States
Researchers at the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) today
announced a new approach to treating endometrial cancer patients that not only
stops the growth of tumors, but kills the cancer cells.
In a potentially major...
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Location: Argonne National Laboratory, U.S. Department of Energy, United States
The structure and behavior of one of the most common proteins in our bodies
has been resolved at a level of detail never before seen, thanks to new research
performed at the
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Location: National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), United States
A super-sensitive mini-sensor developed at the National
Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can detect nuclear magnetic
resonance (NMR) in tiny samples of fluids flowing through a...
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Location: University of Washington, United States
What if swallowing a pill with a camera could detect
the earliest signs of cancer?
The tiny camera is designed to take high-quality,...
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Location: Northwestern University, United States
Many researchers have tried to create a mathematical model of how cells pack
together to form tissue, but most models have many different complicated factors
and no model is universal.
Researchers at
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Location: Emory University, and the Georgia Institute of Technology, United States
Using tiny gold particles embedded with dyes, researchers have shown that they can identify tumors under the skin of a living animal. These tools may allow doctors to detect and diagnose cancer earlier and less invasively
Studded with...
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Location: Massachusetts Institute of Technology, United States
Treating breast
cancer with a type of heat therapy derived from MIT
radar research can significantly increase the effectiveness of...
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Location: Department of Electrical Engineering, MIT, United States
MIT scientists have devised remotely
controlled nanoparticles that, when pulsed with an electromagnetic field,
release drugs to attack tumors. The innovation, reported in the Nov. 15 online
issue of Advanced...
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Location: Jefferson’s Kimmel Cancer Center, Philadelphia, United States
Chemotherapy given at the same time as radiation therapy can help patients with a certain type of lung cancer live nearly 50 percent longer than they might have otherwise if the same treatment was given differently, according to an...
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Location: Boyce Thompson Institute for Plant Research, Cornell University, United States
For more than 40 years, researchers have suspected there must be a natural
hormone that could safely flush sodium out of the body and could be harnessed to
develop more effective and safer treatments for high blood pressure, or
hypertension....
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Location: Duke University Medical Center, United States
A common human virus may prove useful in attacking the deadliest form of brain
tumors, according to study conducted by researchers at
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