Cancer Research

Green Tea Boosts Production Of Detoxification Enzymes

Concentrated chemicals derived from green tea dramatically boosted production of a group of key detoxification enzymes in people with low levels of these beneficial proteins, according to researchers at Arizona Cancer Center. ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2007 - 10:37am

Chromatin Remodeling Mitigates DNA Wreckage

When molecular disaster strikes, causing structural damage to DNA, players in two important pathways talk to each other to help contain the wreckage, scientists at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report in the August edition of Cell. T ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 10 2007 - 4:00pm

Aluminium Found In Sunscreens And Sunblocks

Scientists at Keele University in Staffordshire have questioned the safety of aluminium added to sunscreens and sunblocks. The researchers, Scott Nicholson and Dr. Christopher Exley, measured the aluminium content of sunscreens/sunblocks, which either incl ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 11 2007 - 10:40pm

MIT Creates 3D Images Of Living Cell

A new imaging technique developed at MIT has allowed scientists to create the first 3D images of a living cell, using a method similar to the X-ray CT scans doctors use to see inside the body. The technique, described in a paper published in the Aug. 12 on ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 12 2007 - 2:22pm

New Cancer Stem Cells Could Aid Breast Cancer Research

Robert Weinberg, MIT professor of biology and Whitehead Institute for Biomedical Research member, has created cancer stem cells in a Petri dish by isolating and transforming a particular population of cells from human breast tissue. After being injected wi ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 1:05pm

Diverse Genetic Abnormalities Lead To NF-κB Activation In Multiple Myeloma

Two new studies may lead to the development of more effective therapies for individuals with multiple myeloma (MM), a common and incurable blood cell cancer. The research provides new insight into the molecular mechanisms that underlie aberrant NF-κB activ ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 1:07pm

Unravelling New Complexity In The Genome

A major surprise emerging from genome sequencing projects is that humans have a comparable number of protein-coding genes as significantly less complex organisms such as the minute nematode worm Caenorhabditis elegans. Clearly something other than gene cou ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 4:08pm

Invasion Of The Brain Tumors

The invasive nature of cancers in general, and malignant gliomas in particular, is a major clinical problem rendering tumors incurable by conventional therapies. Using a novel invasive glioma mouse model established by serial in vivo selection, new researc ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2007 - 5:21pm

Study Finds Metforin Kills Cancer Cells That Lack P53 Gene

Metforin, the most commonly prescribed diabetes drug, kills tumor cells that lack key regulatory gene p53, according to a new study by researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicinr. More than half of all human cancers have lost the p53 g ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 14 2007 - 4:37pm

Biomarker Discovered That Predicts Prostate Cancer Outcome

Mayo Clinic researchers have identified the first immune molecule that appears to play a role in prostate cancer development and in predicting cancer recurrence and progression after surgery. The report on the B7-H3 molecule by Mayo Clinic Cancer Center ap ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2007 - 10:02am