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Researchers find a weak link in cancer cell armor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Robert Weiss has found that when two particular genes are inhibited, cancer cells are destroyed at a greater rate. The study is published in the Nov. 9 issue of PNAS.


The book of life can now literally be written on paper

The book of life can now literally be written on paper

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 19, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- An insight from the labs of Harvard chemist George Whitesides and cell biologist Don Ingber is likely to make a fundamental shift in how biologists grow and study cells - and it's as cheap ...


Casting out devils: How salmonella kills tumors

Medicine & Health / Research

created Sep 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Salmonella are regarded as bad guys. Hardly a summer passes without severe salmonella infections via raw egg dishes or chicken that find their way into the media. But salmonella not only harm us -- in the future they may ...


How do you solve a problem like MARIA?

How do you solve a problem like MARIA?

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 3

A chance conversation between Alan Preece, Professor of Medical Physics in the Bristol Oncology Centre, and Dr Ian Craddock from the Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering has led to the development ...


Better MRI scans of cancers made possible

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 13, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researcher Kristina Djanashvili has developed a substance that enables doctors to get better MRI scans of tumours. On Tuesday 13 January, Djanashvili will be soon awarded a doctorate by TU Delft, Netherlands, for her work ...