http://www.physorg.com/ en-us Physorg.com internet news portal provides the latest news on science including: Physics, Nanotechnology, Life Sciences, Space Science, Earth Science, Environment, Health and Medicine. One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers has provided insight into how scientists might develop therapies and drugs that more carefully target cancer, while sparing normal healthy cells. http://www.physorg.com/news150383139.html Biology Mon, 05 Jan 2009 13:05:39 EST news150383139 Researchers at the University of Rochester have designed a gene that produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells. http://www.physorg.com/news148750203.html Medicine & Health Wed, 17 Dec 2008 15:30:03 EST news148750203 Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have pioneered a simple way to remove dead cells from cell cultures used to make protein-based drugs, which are increasingly prescribed to treat a range of illnesses. http://www.physorg.com/news138969041.html Medicine & Health Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:30:41 EST news138969041 An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, is a step closer to delivering cancer-killing drugs to pediatric brain tumors, similar to the tumor that Senator Ted Kennedy is suffering from. http://www.physorg.com/news135268681.html Nanotechnology Mon, 14 Jul 2008 15:38:01 EST news135268681