News tagged with anticancer


Understanding the anticancer effects of vitamin D3

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 06, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 2

The active form of vitamin D3 seems to have anticancer effects. To try and understand the mechanisms underlying these effects, researchers previously set out to identify genes whose expression in a human colon cancer cell ...


Discovery pinpoints new connection between cancer cells, stem cells

Medicine & Health / Research

created Jul 01, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (7) | comments 2

A molecule called telomerase, best known for enabling unlimited cell division of stem cells and cancer cells, has a surprising additional role in the expression of genes in an important stem cell regulatory pathway, say researchers ...


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

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

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 ...


Fresh Pot of Tea Strikes Anticancer Gold

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 27, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia report in the Journal of Materials Chemistry that chemicals in tea are the best yet discovered to make consistent, biologically safe gold nanoparticles. More i ...


Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity

Chemists synthesize fungal compound with anti-cancer activity

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 26, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(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. ...


New medications show promise in treating drug-resistant prostate cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 07, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

A new therapy for metastatic prostate cancer has shown considerable promise in early clinical trials involving patients whose disease has become resistant to current drugs.


Fresh pot of tea strikes anti-cancer gold

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0

Researchers might one day brew up a cancer treatment in their afternoon cuppa, says a study in a Royal Society of Chemistry journal.


Twin nanoparticle shown effective at targeting, killing breast cancer cells

Twin nanoparticle shown effective at targeting, killing breast cancer cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 10, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Breast cancer patients face many horrors, including those that arise when fighting the cancer itself. Medications given during chemotherapy can have wicked side effects, including vomiting, dizziness, anemia ...


New technique images tumor vessel leakiness to predict breast cancer chemotherapy outcome

New technique images tumor vessel leakiness to predict breast cancer chemotherapy outcome

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 02, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Chemotherapy is an integral part of modern cancer treatment, but it's not always effective. Successful chemotherapy depends on the ability of anticancer drugs to escape from the bloodstream through the leaky ...


Nanocomposite Particles

Tiny delivery system with a big impact on cancer cells

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 15, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (18) | comments 1

Researchers in Pennsylvania are reporting for the first time that nanoparticles 1/5,000 the diameter of a human hair encapsulating an experimental anticancer agent, kill human melanoma and drug-resistant breast ...


Novel anti-cancer mechanism found in long-lived rodents

Biology /

created Sep 18, 2008 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Biologists at the University of Rochester have found that small-bodied rodents with long lifespans have evolved a previously unknown anti-cancer mechanism that appears to be different from any anticancer mechanisms employed ...


Anti-cancer flower power

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 25, 2008 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0

Could a substance from the jasmine flower hold the key to an effective new therapy to treat cancer? Prof. Eliezer Flescher of The Sackler Faculty of Medicine, Tel Aviv University thinks so. He and his colleagues have developed ...



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