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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 ...


Reactive oxygen's role in metastasis

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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

Researchers at the Burnham Institute for Medical Research have discovered that reactive oxygen species, such as superoxide and hydrogen peroxide, play a key role in forming invadopodia, cellular protrusions implicated in ...


Researchers identify a critical growth factor that stimulates sperm stem cells to thrive

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Veterinary Medicine and Pennsylvania State University have identified for the first time a specific "niche factor" in the mouse testes called colony stimulating factor ...


Microfluidic Device Mimics Tumor Microenvironment, Helps Drug Discovery Efforts

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

One of the challenges that cancer researchers face in designing new antitumor agents is that of predicting how drug molecules will behave in the complex microenvironment that surrounds a tumor. In particular, tumors create ...





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Tissue tension regulates tumor progression

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 23, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- UCSF scientists have shown for the first time that the rigidity of a tissue can induce cancer. The research team identified an enzyme that is crucial for regulating tissue stiffness and demonstrated that ...


Wistar researchers show targeting 'normal' cells in tumors slows growth

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 16, 2009 | popularity 1 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Targeting the normal cells that surround cancer cells within and around a tumor is a strategy that could greatly increase the effectiveness of traditional anti-cancer treatments, say researchers at The Wistar Institute.


New mechanism explains how the body prevents formation of blood vessels

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 11, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers at Uppsala University, in collaboration with colleagues in Sweden and abroad, have identified an entirely new mechanism by which a specific protein in the body inhibits formation of new blood vessels. Inhibiting ...


Inhibitor of Heat Shock Protein is a Potential Anticancer Drug, Penn Study Finds

Inhibitor of Heat Shock Protein is a Potential Anticancer Drug, Study Finds

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Like yoga for office drones, cells do have coping strategies for stress. Heat, lack of nutrients, oxygen radicals - all can wreak havoc on the delicate internal components of a cell, potentially ...


Cancer research gets physical

Cancer research gets physical

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer research has traditionally been the realm of biologists, and, more recently, engineers. Now, physicists are getting in on the action.


URI research couple's method targets cancerous tumors

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Two University of Rhode Island associate professors, biophysicists Yana Reshetnyak and Oleg Andreev, have discovered a technology that can detect cancerous tumors and deliver treatment to them without the harming the healthy ...


Physical scientists will apply laws of physics in cancer fight

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 26, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Instead of killing cancer cells, researchers at Arizona State University will use the laws of physics to figure out how to control them. And, rather than treating cancer as a disease and seeking a cure, ASU scientists will ...


Reprogramming a patient's eye cells may herald new treatments against degenerative disease

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Scientists have overcome a key barrier to the clinical use of stem cells with a technique which transforms regular body cells into artificial stem cells without the need for introducing foreign genetic materials, which could ...


Small mechanical forces have big impact on embryonic stem cells

Chemistry / Materials Science

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

Applying a small mechanical force to embryonic stem cells could be a new way of coaxing them into a specific direction of differentiation, researchers at the University of Illinois report. Applications for force-directed ...


Researchers find triggers in cells' transition from colitis to cancer

Researchers find triggers in cells' transition from colitis to cancer

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 12, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (2) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Florida researchers have grown tumors in mice using cells from inflamed but noncancerous colon tissue taken from human patients, a finding that sheds new light on colon cancer ...



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