News tagged with melanoma cells
Targeted nanospheres find, penetrate, then fuel burning of melanoma
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Feb 02, 2009 |
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Hollow gold nanospheres equipped with a targeting peptide find melanoma cells, penetrate them deeply, and then cook the tumor when bathed with near-infrared light, a research team led by scientists at The University of Texas ...
Researchers find micro RNA plays a key role in melanoma metastasis
Feb 09, 2009 |
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Scientists have long wondered how melanoma cells travel from primary tumors on the surface of the skin to the brain, liver and lungs, where they become more aggressive, resistant to therapy, and deadly. Now, scientists ...
Scientists probe limits of 'cancer stem-cell model'; Melanoma does not fit the model
Dec 03, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the most promising new ideas about the causes of cancer, known as the cancer stem-cell model, must be reassessed because it is based largely on evidence from a laboratory test that ...
Researchers identify new method to selectively kill metastatic melanoma cells
Aug 03, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- An international team of researchers has identified a new method for selectively killing metastatic melanoma cells, which may lead to new areas for drug development in melanoma - a cancer that is highly resistant ...
Viral mimic induces melanoma cells to digest themselves
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Recent research has uncovered an unexpected vulnerability in deadly melanoma cells that, when exploited, can cause the cancer cells to turn against themselves. The study, published by Cell Press in the August issue of the ...
Researchers reveal how immune cells can be harnessed to target melanoma
Apr 10, 2009 |
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Researchers at the Babraham Institute and the University of Catanzaro "Magna Graecia", Italy, co-ordinating an international network of scientists and clinicians from Europe, the USA and Japan, have identified new mechanisms ...
New therapeutic target for melanoma identified
Apr 16, 2009 |
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A protein called Mcl-1 plays a critical role in melanoma cell resistance to a form of apoptosis called anoikis, according to research published this week in Molecular Cancer Research.
Novel epigenetic markers of melanoma may herald new treatments for patients
Jun 29, 2009 |
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Melanoma is the most serious form of skin cancer, diagnosed in more than 50,000 new patients in the United States annually. While the rate of incidences continues to rise, survival rate has not improved and the race is on ...
Study shows cancer vaccines led to long-term survival for patients with metastatic melanoma
Jul 28, 2009 |
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Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian today announced promising data from a clinical study showing patient-specific cancer vaccines derived from patients' own cancer cells and immune cells were well tolerated and resulted in ...


