News tagged with anticancer agents
Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity
Apr 26, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Ten years ago, William Fenical of the Scripps Institution of Oceanography isolated from an ocean-living fungus a compound that has since shown the ability to kill cancer cells in the lab. ...
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New target to enhance anti-cancer drug sensitivity found in translation
Jun 12, 2008 |
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The development of resistance to anticancer chemotherapeutic agents remains a large problem. In some cases, such resistance is associated with altered control of a cellular process known as translation, which is central to ...
Study Details How Platinum Nanocages 'Cook' Cancer Cells
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Aug 15, 2008 |
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Platinum-based anticancer agents have a long history as proven therapeutic agents, but their toxicity and short lifetime in the body and the ability of tumors to develop resistance to these drugs limit the ultimate utility ...
Microfluidic Device Mimics Tumor Microenvironment, Helps Drug Discovery Efforts
Feb 23, 2009 |
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One of the challenges that cancer researchers face in designing new antitumor agents is that of predicting how drug molecules will behave in the complex microenvironment that surrounds a tumor. In particular, tumors create ...
Two-In-One Punch Knocks Out Drug Resistant Cancer Cells
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Nov 04, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer cells, like bacteria, can develop resistance to drug therapy, leading to relapse of disease. One approach showing promise in overcoming multidrug resistance in tumors is to combine two different anticancer ...
Researchers Develop New Nanomaterials to Deliver Anticancer Drugs to Kill Cancer Cells
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Jun 07, 2007 |
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Researchers at UCLA have successfully manipulated nanomaterials to create a new drug-delivery system that promises to solve the challenge of the poor water solubility of today’s most promising anticancer drugs ...
Targeting tumor behavior may lead to new liver cancer drugs
Jun 18, 2009 |
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Ohio State University cancer researchers have used computational and genomic methods to identify possible anti-cancer agents that may block a particular kind of tumor behavior. The agents target multiple genes associated ...
Using evolution, scientists create a template for many new therapeutic agents
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Sep 09, 2007 |
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By guiding an enzyme down a new evolutionary pathway, a team of University of Wisconsin-Madison researchers has created a new form of an enzyme capable of producing a range of potential new therapeutic agents with anticancer ...
Magnetic Nanocrystals Carry Tumor-Killing Drugs
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Mar 07, 2007 |
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Imagine using a focused magnetic field to concentrate anticancer drugs in and around tumors, and then turning off the magnetic field so that the drugs then leave the body. That possiblity may become a reality as a result ...
Scientists show how certain vegetables combat cancer
Dec 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women should go for the broccoli when the relish tray comes around during holiday celebrations this season.
Anticancer nanotech
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 16, 2009 |
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Tiny particles of albumin, a protein found in the blood, can be used to carry radioactive isotopes to the site of a cancerous tumour in the body and so avoid many of the side-effects of conventional radiotherapy.
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