Cancer Research

We Can Now Predict Who Will Get Parkinson's Disease, Mayo Clinic Says

A new Mayo Clinic study provides evidence that DNA variations largely explain why some persons get Parkinson’s disease while others don’t, and even predict with great accuracy at what age people might develop their first symptoms. “This represents a major ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2007 - 12:41am

Researchers Make Stem Cells From Human Fat

Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh have successfully cultured human hematopoietic stem cells from fat tissue, suggesting another important source of cells for patients undergoing radiation therapy for blood cancers. Adipose tissue has the ability ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 15 2007 - 1:07am

Researchers Create An 'Amazon Bookstore' Algorithm For Analyzing Proteins

Using a new computational method called NetworKIN, researchers at Mount Sinai Hospital, MIT and EMBL can now use biological networks to better identify relationships between molecules, including regulation of protein networks that will ultimately help to t ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 16 2007 - 10:20am

Mutating The Entire Genome

Genes account for only 2.5 percent of DNA in the human genetic blueprint, yet diseases can result not only from mutant genes but from mutations of other DNA that controls genes. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 17 2007 - 6:32pm

Yes, Foie Gras Can Make You Sick

University of Tennessee professor Alan Solomon, director of the Human Immunology and Cancer/Alzheimer’s Disease and Amyloid-Related Disorders Research Program, led a team that discovered a link between foie gras prepared from goose or duck liver and the ty ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2007 - 6:43pm

The Unified Theory Of Stem Cell Research

Researchers say they have discovered the gene that regulates stem cell ability to self-renew and to differentiate into highly specialized types. This means they could program stem cells to become certain cells or do repair automatically. “You could call th ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 21 2007 - 12:59am

Surprising Origin Of Cell's Internal "Highways"

Scientists have long thought that microtubules, part of the microscopic scaffolding that the cell uses to move things around in order to hold its shape and divide, originated from a tiny structure near the nucleus, called the centrosome. Now, researchers a ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2007 - 1:09pm

Scientists Show Pleiotrophin Accelerates Breast Cancer

The significance of pleiotrophin (PTN) expression in breast cancer has not been clearly established but researchers at Scripps sau they have done it in a new study. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2007 - 1:17pm

Mathematics Reveals Genetic Pattern Of Tumor Growth

Using mathematical theory, UC Irvine scientists have shed light on one of cancer’s most troubling puzzles-- how cancer cells can alter their own genetic makeup to accelerate tumor growth. The discovery shows for the first time why this change occurs, provi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2007 - 12:22am

Ancient Retrovirus Sheds Light On Modern Pandemic

Human resistance to a retrovirus that infected chimpanzees and other nonhuman primates 4 million years ago ironically may be at least partially responsible for the susceptibility of humans to HIV infection today. These findings, reported by a team of resea ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2007 - 12:25am