Cancer Research

Resveratrol Remains Effective Against Cancer After Being Metabolized

Resveratrol, a chemical found in red wine, remains effective at fighting cancer even after the body's metabolism has converted it into other compounds, according to a new paper in Science Translational Medicine. Resveratrol is metabolized very quickl ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 3 2013 - 5:30am

Biomarkers Identify Liver Cancer Progenitor Cells Before Tumors Become Visible

Researchers have isolated and characterized the progenitor cells that eventually give rise to malignant hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) tumors – the most common form of liver cancer. The researchers found ways to identify and isolate the HCC progenitor cel ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 14 2013 - 8:00am

GMOs And Pediatric Cancer Rates

There’s a post being highlighted by anti-GMO activists on Twitter that claims that cancer is now the leading cause of death among children in the US, that the rates of pediatric cancer are increasing and that this is because of GMOs.  This is another egre ...

Article - Michael Eisen - Oct 23 2013 - 7:30am

Eating Processed Meat And Colorectal Cancer Risk May Have Genetic Variant

A common genetic variant, rs4143094, located on the same chromosome 10 region that includes GATA3, a transcription factor gene previously linked to several forms of cancer, is in about 36 percent of the population.  A study has linked it to an increased r ...

Article - News Staff - Oct 24 2013 - 10:37am

Cow's Milk Peptide Kills Human Stomach Cancer Cells

A team of researchers indicate that the peptide fragment lactoferricin B25 (LFcinB25) derived from cow's milk exhibited potent anti-cancer capability against human stomach cancer cell cultures. They determine that LFcinB25 has potential to be a futur ...

Article - News Staff - Nov 7 2013 - 6:13pm

Lung Cancer Risk From Silica Reviewed

A new review outlines the health effects of silica, and calls for action to reduce illness and death from silica exposure at work. ...

Article - News Staff - Dec 10 2013 - 11:23am

How Cancer Cells Groove: Rock And Rho Proteins

Low oxygen conditions often persist inside tumors, but they are sufficient to initiate a molecular chain of events that transform breast cancer cells from being rigid and stationery to mobile and invasive. A recent study highlighted the importance of hypo ...

Article - News Staff - Mar 1 2014 - 11:00am

BMH-21 Small Molecule Shows Promise As Anti-cancer Therapy

A little studied chemical compound dubbed BMH-21 targets and shuts down a common cancer process in laboratory-grown human tumor cell lines.  BMH-21  disrupted tumor cell division and prevented growth of advanced cancer cells.  Johns Hopkins researcher Mar ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 13 2014 - 5:38pm

World's Most Ancient Surviving Cancer Sequenced- And It's Transmissible

Researchers have sequenced the genome of the world's oldest continuously surviving cancer, a transmissible genital cancer which causes grotesque genital tumors in dogs around the world. It first arose in a single dog that lived about 11,000 years ago ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 23 2014 - 3:41pm

You Are Now Entering The Cancer Genomics Universe

The universe of cancer mutations just got a whole lot bigger. By analyzing the genomes of thousands of patients' tumors, a research team has discovered many new cancer genes, expanding the list of known genes tied to these cancers by 25 percent. More ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 26 2014 - 12:38pm