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New tools for prediction of disease progression in acute childhood leukemia

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Uppsala University and University Children’s Hospital in Uppsala have devised powerful new tools for typing cells from children with acute lymphatic leukemia and for prediction of how children ...


Research sheds light on workings of anti-cancer drug

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- The copper sequestering drug tetrathiomolybdate (TM) has been shown in studies to be effective in the treatment of Wilson disease, a disease caused by an overload of copper, and certain metastatic cancers. ...


Physician-scientist proves stem cells heal lungs of newborn animals

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Dr. Bernard Thébaud lives in two very different worlds. As a specialist in the Stollery Children's Hospital's Neonatal Intensive Care Unit at the Royal Alexandra Hospital, he cares for tiny babies, many of whom struggle ...


Heavy drinkers exercise to burn off alcohol: British study

Medicine & Health / Health

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More than a quarter of drinkers in England who exercise regularly do so in an attempt to make up for bingeing on alcohol, according to a survey published Thursday.


WHO says Tamiflu still works against swine flu

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(AP) -- The World Health Organization says isolated cases of drug-resistant swine flu in Britain and the United States have not changed the agency's assessment of the disease.


Scientists reveal 'protector' gene behind 50-fold increase in number of bowel tumours

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 26, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer Research UK scientists have shown that deleting a single gene can increase the average number of tumours in the bowel by 50-fold, according to research published in PNAS today.


Long-term testicular cancer survivors at high risk for neurological side effects

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Long-term survivors of testicular cancer who were treated with cisplatin-based chemotherapy had more severe side effects, including neurological side effects and Raynaud-like phenomena, than men who were not treated with ...


Estrogen receptor-alpha, breast cancer patients and tamoxifen response

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers have found evidence of a statistically significant survival benefit from adjuvant tamoxifen among patients whose estrogen receptor (ER)-positive tumors had high levels of phosphorylation of ER-alpha; at serine-118 ...


Managing doctors' practices made easier with new software

Medicine & Health / Other

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- A McMaster University-led research team has developed an innovative software tool that gives family doctors up-to-date information on their patients in two seconds or less.


Scientists report first effective medical therapy for rare stomach disorder

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

A drug used to treat colorectal cancer also can reverse a rare stomach disorder and should be considered first-line therapy for the disease, researchers at Vanderbilt University Medical Center report this week.


Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Implant-based cancer vaccine is first to eliminate tumors in mice

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (23) | comments 7

(PhysOrg.com) -- A cancer vaccine carried into the body on a carefully engineered, fingernail-sized implant is the first to successfully eliminate tumors in mammals, scientists report this week in the journal ...


Crosstalk between critical cell-signaling pathways holds clues to tumor invasion and metastasis

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Two signaling pathways essential to normal human development - the Wnt/Wingless (Wnt) and epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) pathways - interact in ways that can promote tumor cell invasion and metastasis, researchers ...


Researchers discover biological basis of 'bacterial immune system'

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Bacteria don't have easy lives. In addition to mammalian immune systems that besiege the bugs, they have natural enemies called bacteriophages, viruses that kill half the bacteria on Earth every two days.


Two molecules affecting brain plasticity

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 1

(PhysOrg.com) -- You wouldn't want a car with no brakes. It turns out that the developing brain needs them, too.


Heparanase-specific shRNA: A novel therapeutic strategy in human gastric cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 25, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Previous studies have indicated that the heparanase (HPA) is correlated with histopathological parameters and poor prognosis of gastric cancers. Although their efficiencies in inhibiting the expression of HPA, the traditional ...