News tagged with anticancer agent

PRINTed nanoparticles deliver multiple punches to treat prostate cancer

Using technologies common to the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Liquidia Technologies has created a polymer nanoparticle that can encapsulate large loads ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Overcoming cancer drug resistance with nanoparticles

One of the ways in which cancer cells evade anticancer therapy is by producing a protein that pumps drugs out of the cell before these compounds can exert their cell-killing effects. A research team at Northwestern University ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inhaled nanoparticles deliver potent anticancer cocktail to lung tumors and block resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ideal treatment for lung cancer would be one that could be inhaled deep into lung tissue where it would deliver tumor-killing agents that would then largely stay in the lungs, avoiding the toxicities that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Peptides for fighting ovarian cancer developed

A team of German and Italian EU-funded scientists has designed peptides that can target the protein-protein interface of an enzyme that plays a key part in the DNA synthesis crucial for cancer growth.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers help find natural products potential of frankia

Soil-dwelling bacteria of the genus Frankia have the potential to produce a multitude of natural products, including antibiotics, herbicides, pigments, anticancer agents, and other useful products, according to an article ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 03, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Polymeric nanoparticles attack head and neck cancer

Head and neck cancer, the sixth most common cancer in the world, has remained one of the more difficult malignancies to treat, and even when treatment is successful, patients suffer severely from the available therapies. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nitrogen-fixing bacterial symbiont promises trove of natural products

Soil-dwelling bacteria of the genus Frankia have the potential to produce a multitude of natural products, including antibiotics, herbicides, pigments, anticancer agents, and other useful products, according to Bradley S. ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Chemotherapy resistance: A new lead?

UA62784: that is the name of a molecule capable of preventing the proliferation of cancerous cells in vitro, and thus causing their cellular death. Its effects appear to amplify that of other anticancer agents ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Abcc10 may be effective in extending the effectiveness of anticancer drugs

Today's anticancer drugs often work wonders against malignancies, but sometimes tumors become resistant to the effects of such drugs, and treatment fails. Medical researchers would like to find ways of counteracting such ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Mango effective in preventing, stopping certain colon, breast cancer cells

Mango. If you know little about this fruit, understand this: It's been found to prevent or stop certain colon and breast cancer cells in the lab.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 11, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New activity found for a potential anti-cancer agent

Pateamine A (PatA), a natural product first isolated from marine sponges, has attracted considerable attention as a potential anti-cancer agent, and now a new activity has been found for it, which may reveal yet another anti-cancer ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

URI research couple's method targets cancerous tumors

Two University of Rhode Island associate professors, biophysicists Yana Reshetnyak and Oleg Andreev, have discovered a technology that can detect cancerous tumors and deliver treatment to them without the harming the healthy ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tumors Feel the Deadly Sting of Nanobees

When bees sting, they pump into their victims a peptide toxin called melittin that destroys cell membranes. Now, by encapsulating this extremely potent molecule within a nanoparticle, researchers at the Washington University ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 28, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (13) | comments 3

Tumors feel the deadly sting of nanobees

(PhysOrg.com) -- When bees sting, they pump poison into their victims. Now the toxin in bee venom has been harnessed to kill tumor cells by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The researchers ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Aug 10, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

A potent and selective anti-tumor agent on human gastric cancer

A research article to be published on June 21, 2009 in the World Journal of Gastroenterology addresses this question. The research team led by Professor Yan Li from Shengjing Hospital of China Medical University studied the gr ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1