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Survival of the healthiest: Selective eradication of malignant cells

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

The ultimate goal in cancer research, a treatment that kills cancer cells whilst leaving healthy cells untouched, is brought nearer by the success of a new therapeutic approach. The potential therapy, published in BioMed ...


Scientists reveal how induced pluripotent stem cells differ from embryonic stem cells

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 05, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0

The same genes that are chemically altered during normal cell differentiation, as well as when normal cells become cancer cells, are also changed in stem cells that scientists derive from adult cells, according to new research ...


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.


Th17 cells summon an immune system strike against cancer (w/ Video)

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 29, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A specific type of T helper cell awakens the immune system to the stealthy threat of cancer and triggers an attack of killer T cells custom-made to destroy the tumors, scientists from The University of Texas M. D. Anderson ...


Sight gone, but not necessarily lost? Researchers find life in blood-starved retinas

Medicine & Health / Genetics

created Oct 30, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Like all tissues in the body, the eye needs a healthy blood supply to function properly. Poorly developed blood vessels can lead to visual impairment or even blindness. While many of the molecules involved in guiding the ...


Advance growing animal penile erectile tissue in lab may benefit patients

Medicine & Health / Research

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

In an advance that could one day enable surgeons to reconstruct and restore function to damaged or diseased penile tissue in humans, researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center's Institute for Regenerative ...


Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed

Possible origins of pancreatic cancer revealed

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 02, 2009 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 0

(PhysOrg.com) -- MIT cancer biologists have identified a subpopulation of cells that can give rise to pancreatic cancer. They also found that tumors can form in other, more mature pancreatic cell types, but ...


New understanding about mechanism for cell death after stroke leads to possible therapy

Medicine & Health / Research

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Scientists at the Brain Research Centre, a partnership of the University of British Columbia Faculty of Medicine and Vancouver Coastal Health Research Institute, have uncovered new information about the mechanism by which ...


Researchers discover mechanism of insulin production that can lead to better treatment for diabetes

Researchers discover mechanism of insulin production that can lead to better treatment for diabetes

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 12, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

How a specific gene within the pancreas affects secretion of insulin has been discovered by researchers from the Hebrew University of Jerusalem, in collaboration with Japanese and American universities. Their ...


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.



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