Cancer Research

New Research Suggests Emotions Can Affect Recovery From Hip Surgery

Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have determined how a substance derived from the bark of the South American lapacho tree kills certain kinds of cancer cells, findings that also suggest a novel treatment for the most common type of lung cancer ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2007 - 2:31am

Bisphosphonates Increase Risk Of Jaw Disease

Treatment with intravenous bisphosphonates — drugs used to reduce harm done to bones by cancer or cancer therapy — increases the risk of jaw or facial bone disease or infection, a large-scale comparative study by researchers at the University of Texas Medi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2007 - 4:33pm

Cord Blood Stem Cells May Preserve Insulin Levels In Children With Type 1 Diabetes

Umbilical cord blood may safely preserve insulin production in children newly diagnosed with type 1 diabetes, according to findings from a small national pilot study. University of Florida researchers sought to determine whether it is feasible to use a pat ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2007 - 9:26pm

Nanoparticles Carry Chemotherapy Drug Deeper Into Solid Tumors

A new drug delivery method using nano-sized molecules to carry the chemotherapy drug doxorubicin to tumors improves the effectiveness of the drug in mice and increases their survival time, according to a study published online June 26 in the Journal of the ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 27 2007 - 1:27pm

Potential New Method For Drug Delivery- Hitchhike Nanoparticles On Red Blood Cells

Researchers at the University of California, Santa Barbara have discovered that attaching polymeric nanoparticles to the surface of red blood cells dramatically increases the in vivo lifetime of the nanoparticles. The research, published in the July 07 iss ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 5:32am

Bacterial Pathogen May Be Key To Understanding Cancer Development

A research team including University of Central Florida Microbiology Professor Keith Ireton is using the bacterial pathogen Listeria Monocytogenes to understand the mechanisms of cell growth and cancer development. In research published this month in the J ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 6:24pm

Breast Cancer Survival Also Runs In The Family

It's long been known that a woman's chance of getting breast cancer is related to family medical history. It turns out that surviving it may also be inherited. Research published in the online journal Breast Cancer Research suggests that if a wom ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 8:00pm

Tuberculosis Breakthrough! Host Cell Path Discovered

Researchers at the Netherlands Cancer Institute- Antoni van Leeuwenhoek Hospital (NKI-AVL) have made the discovery that tuberculosis and leprosy bacteria follow a different path into the host cell than that which for forty years scientists had always maint ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2007 - 11:19pm

Cellular Atypia As Breast Cancer Predictor

Women with at least three sites of cellular atypia in breast tissue are nearly eight times more likely than average women to develop breast cancer, according to findings of a Mayo Clinic Cancer Center-led study of women with atypical hyperplasia. The findi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 30 2007 - 5:43pm

New Method For Reading DNA Sheds Light On Basis Of Cell Identity

Early use of new DNA sequencing technology enables scientists to create whole genome maps of chromatin in embryonic stem cells and other cells As a fertilized egg develops into a full grown adult, mammalian cells make many crucial decisions — closing doors ...

Article - News Staff - Jul 1 2007 - 1:37pm