News tagged with taxol
'Green chemistry' could ease manufacture, boost usefulness of cancer drug (w/Video)
Apr 02, 2009 |
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Research by Michigan State University chemist Kevin Walker is paving the way for potentially cleaner, more efficient production of cancer-fighting paclitaxel -- better known as the blockbuster drug Taxol.
Team Visits Chile on Quest for Rare Fuel-Producing Microorganism
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Feb 20, 2009 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Three Yale graduate students recently were part of an expedition to Chile to find a rare microorganism that can produce diesel fuel.
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Killing cancer like a vampire slayer
Sep 17, 2009 |
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Like vampires, cancer tumors require an ample supply of blood to stay alive. Without fresh blood for sustenance, cancer cells shrivel up like raisins and die.
Nanoparticles could someday lead to end of chemotherapy
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Jun 16, 2009 |
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Nanoparticles specially engineered by University of Central Florida Assistant Professor J. Manuel Perez and his colleagues could someday target and destroy tumors, sparing patients from toxic, whole-body chemotherapies.
Brain metastases hijack neuron-supporting cells to resist chemotherapy
Apr 19, 2009 |
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Cancer that spreads to other organs finds a particularly inviting hideout in the brain, where these metastases are usually far harder to treat than they are in other locations. Two researchers from The University of Texas ...
Scientists show how certain vegetables combat cancer
Dec 23, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- Women should go for the broccoli when the relish tray comes around during holiday celebrations this season.
Cell division study resolves 50-year-old-debate, may aid cancer research
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Sep 03, 2008 |
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A new study at Oregon State University has finally resolved a controversy that cellular biologists have been arguing over for nearly 50 years, with findings that may aid research on everything from birth defects and genetic ...
Yale undergrads' Amazon trip yields a treasure trove of diversity
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Aug 24, 2008 |
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A group of Yale undergraduates have discovered dozens of potentially beneficial bioactive microorganisms within plants they collected in the Amazon rain forest, including several so genetically distinct that they may be the ...
Duke chemists synthesize promising anti-cancer product
Aug 20, 2008 |
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Duke University chemists have patented an efficient technique for synthesizing a marine algae extract in sufficient quantities to now test its ability to inhibit the growth of cancerous cells while leaving normal cells unaffected.
New method to overcome multiple drug resistant diseases developed by Stanford researchers
Aug 18, 2008 |
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Many drugs once considered Charles Atlases of the pharmaceutical realm have been reduced to the therapeutic equivalent of 97-pound weaklings as the diseases they once dispatched with ease have developed resistance to them.
Slipping through cell walls, nanotubes deliver high-potency punch to cancer tumors in mice
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Aug 14, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- The problem with using a shotgun to kill a housefly is that even if you get the pest, you'll likely do a lot of damage to your home in the process. Hence the value of the more surgical flyswatter.
How chemo kills tumours: research to reduce side effects
Aug 01, 2008 |
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(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Manchester researchers are investigating exactly how chemotherapy drugs kill cancerous tumours in a bid to reduce side effects and test the effectiveness of safer new agents.
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