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. Two new University of Illinois studies report that lunasin, a soy peptide often discarded in the waste streams of soy-processing plants, may have important health benefits that include fighting leukemia and blocking the inflammation that accompanies such chronic health conditions as diabetes, heart disease, and stroke. http://www.physorg.com/news178990755.html Chemistry Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:42:56 EST news178990755 For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have reported the use of a radiolabeled antibody to deliver targeted doses of radiation, followed by a stem cell transplant, to successfully treat a group of leukemia and pre-leukemia patients for whom there previously had been no other curative treatment options. http://www.physorg.com/news176644890.html Medicine & Health Thu, 05 Nov 2009 12:30:01 EST news176644890 (PhysOrg.com) -- A new study has provided genetic evidence for the first time that it is possible for a mother to transmit cancer to her unborn child via the placenta. http://www.physorg.com/news174733069.html Medicine & Health Wed, 14 Oct 2009 09:58:40 EST news174733069 Scientists have created a viable technology to improve the detection of leukemia cells in bone marrow. http://www.physorg.com/news174058065.html Medicine & Health Tue, 06 Oct 2009 16:40:01 EST news174058065 Obesity is an important factor contributing to chemotherapy resistance and increasing relapse rates among children with leukemia, according to recent findings published online first in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. http://www.physorg.com/news172845198.html Medicine & Health Tue, 22 Sep 2009 14:00:03 EST news172845198 Researchers from the Children's Cancer Hospital at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center have discovered how to turn off a certain receptor that promotes the growth of leukemia cells. The pre-clinical study was presented today in a platform session at the 22nd annual meeting of the American Society of Pediatric Hematology/Oncology (ASPHO). http://www.physorg.com/news159790046.html Medicine & Health Fri, 24 Apr 2009 11:08:05 EST news159790046 Scientists studying chronic myeloid leukemia, more commonly known as CML, are one step closer to decoding the `genetic signature` of stem cells in this disease. They`ve identified a marker in a tiny but powerful subset of leukemia cells that could enable scientists to halt cancer cell growth in CML, and perhaps in other forms of cancer. http://www.physorg.com/news155929069.html Medicine & Health Tue, 10 Mar 2009 18:38:35 EST news155929069 Scientists have identified mutations in a gene that predict a high likelihood of relapse in children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). Although the researchers caution that further research is needed to determine how changes in the gene, called IKZF1 or IKAROS, lead to leukemia relapse, the findings are likely to provide the basis for future diagnostic tests to assess the risk of treatment failure. By using a molecular test to identify this genetic marker in ALL patients, physicians should be better able to assign patients to appropriate therapies. http://www.physorg.com/news150571442.html Medicine & Health Wed, 07 Jan 2009 17:24:02 EST news150571442 An extract from grape seeds forces laboratory leukemia cells to commit cell suicide, according to researchers from the University of Kentucky. They found that within 24 hours, 76 percent of leukemia cells had died after being exposed to the extract. http://www.physorg.com/news149924025.html Medicine & Health Wed, 31 Dec 2008 05:33:45 EST news149924025 (PhysOrg.com) -- Angiocidin, a tumor-inhibiting novel protein discovered by Temple University researchers, may also have a role as a new therapeutic application in treating leukemia, according to a study by the researchers. http://www.physorg.com/news135319636.html Medicine & Health Tue, 15 Jul 2008 05:47:16 EST news135319636