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Study reveals chemo's toxicity to brain, possible treatment

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers have developed a novel animal model showing that four commonly used chemotherapy drugs disrupt the birth of new brain cells, and that the condition could be partially reversed with the growth factor IGF-1.


Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer

Heart drugs show promise for fighting colon cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 16, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists in Sweden are reporting for the first time that a group of drugs used to treat heart failure shows promise for fighting colon cancer. The study is in ACS' Journal of Natural Products. Colon cancer ...


Validity of cost-effectiveness models based on randomized clinical trials

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 08, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Cost-effectiveness studies are widely used to guide prescribing policy in many countries, as part of health technology assessment programmes. However, a new study published this week in PLoS Medicine by Tjeerd-Pieter van St ...


Potential new 'twist' in breast cancer detection

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Working with mice, scientists at Johns Hopkins publishing in the December issue of Neoplasia have shown that a protein made by a gene called "Twist" may be the proverbial red flag that can accurately distinguish stem cells ...


Researchers develop cheap, easy 'kitchen chemistry' to perform formerly complex synthesis

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 4.6 / 5 (12) | comments 0

A team at The Scripps Research Institute has made major strides in solving a problem that has been plaguing chemists for many years: how best to break carbon-hydrogen bonds and then to create new bonds to join molecules together. ...


The hidden lives of proteins

The hidden lives of proteins

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 02, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

An important Brandeis study appearing in the December 3 issue of Nature raises the curtain on the hidden lives of proteins at the atomic level. The study reports that for the first time, researchers used x ...


Are the effects of pornography negligible?

Other Sciences / Social Sciences

created Dec 01, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (21) | comments 5

A Université de Montréal researcher, funded by the Interdisciplinary Research Center on Family Violence and Violence Against Women, has launched a new study to examine the effects of pornography on men. "We ...


Clinical trials launched for treating most aggressive brain tumor with personalized cell vaccines

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The University of Navarra Hospital (Spain) has launched a series of clinical trials in order to assess the efficacy of an immunotherapy treatment. This approach involves the application of personalised vaccines —produced ...


Research sheds new light on epilepsy

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 1

Pioneering research using human brain tissue removed from people suffering from epilepsy has opened the door to new treatments for the disease.



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