Cancer Research

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Collaborators Present Reovirus Research For Pediatric Sarcomas At AACR Annual Meeting

CALGARY, Canada, April 15 /PRNewswire/-- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. (TSX: ONC) (NASDAQ: ONCY) announced that a poster presentation by Dr. Anders Kolb of the Nemours Center for Childhood Cancer Research entitled "Radiation in Combination with Reolysin fo ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 15 2008 - 10:32am

Akt May Mean Better Cancer Treatments Using Sugar

Researchers at the Duke School of Medicine apparently have solved the riddle of why cancer cells like sugar so much, and it may be a mechanism that could lead to better cancer treatments. Jonathan Coloff, a graduate student in Assistant Professor Jeffrey R ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 15 2008 - 9:16pm

Merck Announces Planned Investment Of $50 Million In Research Center In The US

GENEVA, April 16 /PRNewswire/-- Merck Serono and its US affiliate EMD Serono, Inc., both part of Merck KGaA, Darmstadt, Germany, announced today a planned expansion of EMD Serono's US presence with an anticipated investment of $50 million at its Bill ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 16 2008 - 5:30am

Oncolytics Biotech Inc. Announces Gene Therapy Publication On Reovirus Treatment For Melanoma

CALGARY, Canada, April 16 /PRNewswire/-- Oncolytics Biotech Inc. ("Oncolytics") (TSX:ONC, NASDAQ:ONCY) announced today that Prof. Alan Melcher and his research group at St. James's University Hospital in Leeds, U.K. published the results of ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 16 2008 - 6:32am

European Regulatory Agency Grants Orphan Status To Morphotek(R)'s Farletuzumab And MORAb-009

EXTON, Pennsylvania, April 16 /PRNewswire/--- Upon Marketing Authorization Orphan Status Would Provide for Ten Years of Market Exclusivity in the European Union for Both Investigational Treatments Morphotek(R), Inc., a subsidiary of Eisai Corporation of N ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 16 2008 - 8:32am

Genome-Wide DNA Methylation And Transcriptomes At Single Base Resolution

The chemical marks littering the DNA inside our cells have been like trees in front of us- important, but we couldn't see the whole forest so we could study one gene at a time. New high-throughput DNA sequencing technology has enabled researchers at t ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2008 - 11:32am

How Cells Protect Themselves Against Genetic Mistakes

The blueprint for the human body is encoded in genes. Gene expression is the process by which those blueprints are converted into proteins that make up the body’s structures and send its signals. When molecular biologists began analyzing the complete set o ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 17 2008 - 11:45am

Vitamin D Inhibits Post-Menopausal Breast Cancer- Clinical Results

A connection between vitamin D level and the risk of developing breast cancer has been implicated for a long time, but its clinical relevance had not yet been proven. Sascha Abbas and colleagues from the working group headed by Dr. Jenny Chang-Claude at th ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 18 2008 - 9:08am

Einstein's Theory Gets Support From 18 Billion Suns

A close binary system of two candidate black holes in the quasar OJ 287 has shown Einstein some physics love. A central black hole, with a mass equal to 18 billion times that of the Sun, is orbited by a smaller one, and the interaction of the system with i ...

Article - News Staff - Apr 19 2008 - 10:38pm

Zsweet(R) Improving Life For Diabetics And The Overweight

DUBLIN, April 21 /PRNewswire/-- The modern world is entrenched in a love hate affair with sugar. It proliferates throughout our daily diet, we crave it, we adore it and yet it destroys our health. To view the Multimedia News Release go to: http://www.prne ...

Article - Anna Ohlden - Apr 21 2008 - 2:31am