Cancer Research

Hox, Senseless And The Molecular Switch That Helps Decide Cell Type

Researchers have discovered a central molecular switch in fruit fly embryos that opens new avenues for studying the causes of birth defects and cancer in humans. Writing about their study in the Aug. 12 Developmental Cell, scientists at Cincinnati Children ...

Article - News Staff - Jan 10 2009 - 11:36pm

Canopus Biopharma And Leading Chinese Researcher Team Up To Treat Avian Influenza, To Prevent Possible Pandemic

LOS ANGELES, California and GUANGZHOU, China, August 12 /PRNewswire/--- Major Threat Treatable With StatC(TM); FDA-Approved Drugs to Begin Testing in U.S. Animal Models An internationally renowned avian influenza expert today hailed "encouraging and ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 11 2008 - 6:32pm

Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation Announces Second Quarter 2008 Financial Results And Recent Corporate Highlights

SAN DIEGO, August 12 /PRNewswire/-- Nventa Biopharmaceuticals Corporation (TSX: NVN) announced today financial results for the second quarter and six months ended June 30, 2008, and highlighted several recent product developments and corporate milestones. ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 12 2008 - 6:33am

Rosetta Genomics Announces Conference Call And Webcast Of Second Quarter Financial Results

REHOVOT, Israel and JERSEY CITY, New Jersey, August 12 /PRNewswire/-- Rosetta Genomics (Nasdaq: ROSG), today announced it will release first quarter financial results on August 19, 2008, before the U.S. markets open. Rosetta Genomics will host a conferenc ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 12 2008 - 4:32pm

Bavarian Nordic Announces Partnership With National Cancer Institute In The US And Obtains Rights To A New Vaccine Candidate

KVISTGARD, Denmark, August 13 /PRNewswire/-- Bavarian Nordic's US subsidiary, BN ImmunoTherapeutics has entered into a scientific partnership with the National Cancer Institute (NCI) in the United States. Under the Cooperative Research and Developmen ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 13 2008 - 3:30am

Spawning New Species- Duke Researchers Say DNA Repairs May Reshape The Genome

Researchers at Duke University Medical Center and at the National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) say they have shown how broken sections of chromosomes can recombine to change genomes... and spawn new species. The scientists used X-rays ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 13 2008 - 1:17pm

Dogster.com Teams With Morris Animal Foundation To Cure Canine Cancer, While Helping Dogs Suffering From Cancer Today- Makes US

DENVER, August 13 /PRNewswire/--- One in Four Dogs Dies of Cancer- The Number One Cause of Death in Dogs Over the Age of Two Dogster.com, the world's most popular and comprehensive Web site devoted to the health and happiness of dogs, has joined Morr ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Aug 13 2008 - 4:33pm

Discovery- Cancer's Three Developmental Signatures

A new systematic analysis of the relationship between the neoplastic and developmental transcriptome provides an outline of trends in cancer gene expression. The research, published recently in Genome Biology, describes how cancers can be divided into thre ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2008 - 10:04am

IAPs Research Causes Pre-Cancerous Cells To Self-Destruct

When a cell begins to multiply in a dangerously abnormal way, a series of death signals trigger it to self-destruct before it turns cancerous. In research in the August 15th issue of Genes & Development, Rockefeller University scientists using mice hav ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 15 2008 - 6:36pm

Why Addicts Crave Cocaine

A possible future way to prevent relapses into drug dependence has been discovered by researchers at Linköping University and the German cancer research center DKFZ. The target is the dopamine-producing nerve cells in the midbrain. Earlier research has sho ...

Article - News Staff - Aug 16 2008 - 1:25am