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Modified gene targets cancer cells a thousand times more often than healthy cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 17, 2008 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Rochester have designed a gene that produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells.


Scientists can now differentiate between healthy cells and cancer cells

Biology /

created Jan 05, 2009 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (11) | comments 3

One of the current handicaps of cancer treatments is the difficulty of aiming these treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers ...


An alternative to chemotherapy: Nanoparticles tackle pediatric brain tumors

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 14, 2008 | popularity 4.1 / 5 (9) | comments 0

An interdisciplinary team of researchers at Washington University in St. Louis, led by Karen L. Wooley, Ph.D., James S. McDonnell Distinguished University Professor in Arts & Sciences, is a step closer to delivering cancer-killing ...


Cell removal technique could lead to cheaper drugs

Medicine & Health / Research

created Aug 26, 2008 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Edinburgh have pioneered a simple way to remove dead cells from cell cultures used to make protein-based drugs, which are increasingly prescribed to treat a range of illnesses.





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UAB researchers link calorie intake to cell lifespan, cancer development

Researchers link calorie intake to cell lifespan, cancer development (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 17, 2009 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (12) | comments 7

Researchers from the University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) have discovered that restricting consumption of glucose, the most common dietary sugar, can extend the life of healthy human-lung cells and speed ...


Stem cells restore cognitive abilities impaired by brain tumor treatment, study finds

Medicine & Health / Research

created Nov 09, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Human embryonic stem cells could help people with learning and memory deficits after radiation treatment for brain tumors, suggests a new UC Irvine study.


Toward a nanomedicine for brain cancer

Toward a nanomedicine for brain cancer

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Sep 09, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

In an advance toward better treatments for the most serious form of brain cancer, scientists in Illinois are reporting development of the first nanoparticles that seek out and destroy brain cancer cells without ...


Research points to potential chink in cancer's armor

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 06, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists at the University of York have identified and successfully silenced a gene that appears essential to cancer cell survival.


Study finds way to protect healthy cells from radiation damage

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 3

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, may be hot on the heels of a Holy Grail of cancer therapy: They have found ...


Stem cells battle for space

Medicine & Health / Research

created Dec 04, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The body is a battle zone. Cells constantly compete with one another for space and dominance. Though the manner in which some cells win this competition is well known to be the survival of the fittest, how stem cells duke ...


Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

Exploration by explosion: Studying the inner realm of living cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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

Scientists in Washington, DC, are reporting development and successful tests of a new way for exploring the insides of living cells, the microscopic building blocks of all known plants and animals. They explode ...


Nanoprobes hit targets in tumors, could lessen chemo side effects

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 14, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Tiny nanoprobes have shown to be effective in delivering cancer drugs more directly to tumor cells - mitigating the damage to nearby healthy cells - and Purdue University research has shown that the nanoprobes ...


Shedding light on cancer cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Scientists label cells with coloured or glowing chemicals to observe how basic cellular activities differ between healthy and cancerous cells. Existing techniques for labelling cells are either too slow or too toxic to perform ...


The protein Srebp2 drives cholesterol formation in prion-infected neuronal cells

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 18, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Prions are causing fatal and infectious diseases of the nervous system, such as the mad cow disease (BSE), scrapie in sheep or Creutzfeldt-Jakob disease in humans. Scientists of Helmholtz Zentrum München and Technische Universität ...



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