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DNA Molecules Used To Assemble Nanoparticles
...particle complexes can be specifically targeted to cancer cells and are small enough to enter a diseased cel...e designed for imaging and the other for targeting cancer cells. Each of the dendrimers also carried a single-stranded, non-coding DNA synthesized by Choi. I...Viral DNA sequence a possible trigger for breast cancer
...irus (called MMTV) can transform breast cells into cancer cells, according to a study by Katz et al. in the ...arcoma virus, but what role this sequence plays in cancer development has remained unexplored. Katz and colleagues now show that this sequence is contained i...Association of herpesvirus with lung disorder questioned
...ion is associated with Kaposi's sarcoma, a type of cancer most commonly seen in some parts of Africa and southern Europe and in people infected with HIV. Primary pulmonary hypertension is characterized in part by vascular lesions in the lung, and may lead to heart failure. Some cases are associated with gen...Man and mouse share genome structures
...ntists understand regulatory mechanisms underlying cancer and human development. The research team includes first author Bradley Bernstein, recipient of a Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) physician postdoctoral fellowship who works in the Harvard University laboratory of HHMI investigator Stuart L. S...Adding Radiation Therapy To Chemotherapy Improves Survival In Patients With High-risk Breast Cancer
For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemo...iation therapy was associated with improved breast cancer survival but not with overall survival. In this 20-year follow-up of the British Columbia trial, Jo...Novel Asthma Study Shows Multiple Genetic Input Required; Single-gene Solution Shot Down
For patients with high-risk breast cancer treated with radical mastectomy and adjuvant chemo...iation therapy was associated with improved breast cancer survival but not with overall survival. In this 20-year follow-up of the British Columbia trial, Jo...Scientists ID molecular 'switch' in liver that triggers harmful effects of saturated and trans fats
...n fat cells and metabolic pathways in diabetes and cancer at Dana-Farber. "It offers the opportunity to try to understand what makes these fatty acids so deleterious, and what we need to avoid." Moreover, it is possible that in the future, drug therapy might be used to "turn down" the mechanism, decreasing...Deficient DNA Repair Capacity Associated With Increased Risk Of Breast Cancer
...own as bulky DNA adducts is associated with breast cancer risk, Regina M. Santella, Ph.D., of the Columbia U...in which one sister had been diagnosed with breast cancer and the other had not. They found that DNA repair capacity was lower in breast cancer patients than...Source of molecular triggers in cutaneous T cell lymphoma identified
...lity to manage a spectrum of maladies ranging from cancer to disorders of immune regulation," said Edelson. ..."Inhibiting Treg-cell generation may be useful for cancer immunotherapy and promoting Treg development may be useful to induce tolerance in autoimmune disease...It's not all genetic: Common epigenetic problem doubles cancer risk in mice
...y, this discovery should expand attention in colon cancer research to earlier events, situations present wel... or so Johns Hopkins patients with suspected colon cancer suggests that IGF2's effect in people may be similar, the researchers report. A larger study of samp...Columbia research lifts major hurdle to gene therapy for cancer
... to kill normal cells in theprocess of eradicating cancer cells.In a new study published in the Jan. 25 issu...ially designedvirus. The virus eradicated prostate cancer cells in the lab and inanimals while leaving normal cells unscathed. Genetherapy based on the new t...New, automated tool successfully classifies and relates proteins in unprecedented way
...mor cell's machinery needed toprocess proteins for cancer growth."Our tool represents a step forward because it is based on standardizedfeatures and not on features chosen by the human eye, which isunreliable. By automating the clustering of proteins inside cellimages, we also can study thousands of images ...New binding target for oncogenic viral protein
...cancer. This is an important step to designing new cancer treatment strategies that target these pathways," concluded Dr. Clurman. ...Another Look Finds Promising Proteomics Test is Not Biologically Plausible
...perimental test intended to identify early ovarian cancer from a small sample of blood is unlikely to lead t...pears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers in the journal, Lancet. That study re......perimental test intended to identify early ovarian cancer from a small sample of blood is unlikely to lead t...pears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers in the journal, Lancet. That study re...Cracking the olfactory code in bees
...perimental test intended to identify early ovarian cancer from a small sample of blood is unlikely to lead t...pears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers in the journal, Lancet. That study re...Study Demonstrates Gene Expression Microarrays are Comparable and Reproducible
...between labs. Twelve different tumor tissues, five cancer celllines, and five purified RNA samples were prepared, blinded, andrandomized for analysis in four laboratories: University of MichiganMedical School, Ann Arbor, Mich.; Dana Farber CancerInstitute/Whitehead Institute, Boston, Mass.; Memorial Sloan-K...Signaling protein builds bigger, better bones in mice
...perimental test intended to identify early ovarian cancer from a small sample of blood is unlikely to lead t...pears to be the case with the experimental ovarian cancer test at issue, which was first proposed in 2002 by researchers in the journal, Lancet. That study re...Combination therapy boosts effectiveness of telomere-directed cancer cell death
... "immortal" (able todivide indefinitely) aspect of cancer cells. Yet, something in the cellseems to block th...about how to boost the effectivenessof a promising cancer treatment that targets telomeres in an attempt tointerfere with the ability of a cancer cell to cont...GATA: a graphic alignment tool for comparative sequence analysis
... "immortal" (able todivide indefinitely) aspect of cancer cells. Yet, something in the cellseems to block th...about how to boost the effectivenessof a promising cancer treatment that targets telomeres in an attempt tointerfere with the ability of a cancer cell to cont...Imaging Lymph Nodes with Nanoparticles
... novel application involving the buzzword "nano" - cancer detection using nanoparticles and MRI (magnetic resonance imaging) : Accurate staging of cancers is one of the most important parts of thework up of patients for both prediction of prognosis and determinationof the most appropriate treatment. And an...U-M scientist to talk about tissue engineering at AAAS
... bone of a person undergoing radiation therapy for cancer means managing the constant bacteria bath of a human mouth as well as compensating for the damage of radiation. "It's not just a question of whether we can make new tissue in a perfect condition. Now we're mimicking what can really happen in a perso...Genome-wide mouse study yields link to human leukemia
...pressor gene. Tumor suppressor genes help control cancer by identifying and getting rid of defective cells ...hrough methylation or some other process, it gives cancer a chance to establish a foothold and spread. Caligiuri says much more work needs to be done, but ad...Breakthrough Microarray-based Technology for the Study of Cancer
...slocation of DNA from one chromosome toanother, as cancer develops. Understanding these changes is key tounderstanding cancer progression as well as developing possibletherapies and prognostic and diagnostic tools."Genomic alt...Live Recombinant Adenovirus Vaccine Technique Explored
...loping world. HPV causes 500,000 cases of cervical cancer each year worldwide. Recombinant HPV vaccines currently in clinical trials may not be ideal in poorer countries because they are expensive and require multiple immunizations. The Hopkins researchers developed their vaccine prototype using canine ora...Leukemia Drug Breakthrough Study In New England Journal Of Medicine
...genesis) and stimulates the immune system to fight cancer cells. The study is reported in the Feb.10 issue o...d contributions to clinical trials, prevention and cancer control. Additionally, Moffitt is a member of the National Comprehensive Cancer Network, a prestigio...Mitochondrial DNA mutations play significant role in prostate cancer
...,Irvine, sequenced segments of mtDNA from prostate cancer patients andfound a variety of mutations, includin... They then sequenced the COI gene in 260 prostate cancer tissue samplesor blood cells from patients with confirmed cancer who had undergoneradical prostatect...Gene therapy converts dead bone graft to new, living tissue
...e, is a promising development for the thousands of cancer and trauma patients each year who suffer with frag...t will have a dramatic effect on success rates for cancer patients who would otherwise be facing choices as drastic as amputation," says Arthur A. Gertzman, e...Molecular machine may lead to new drugs to combat human diseases
... paths for treating diseases such as some forms of cancer and opportunistic infections that plague HIV patients. Purdue University researchers froze one of these molecular machines, which are chemical complexes known as a Group I intron, at mid-point in its work cycle. When frozen, crystallized introns rev...Sea skate experiment sheds light on human cell transport
...se channels and the uncontrolled multiplication of cancer cells," Goldstein said. "If so, this research points up an important area for future research." ...Yale Scientists Find MicroRNA Regulates Ras Cancer Gene
... maps to a chromosomal region associated with lung cancer as a regulator of Ras expression. DNA of plants a...it acts like a brake on an accelerated Ras." Lung cancer currently has a poor prognosis with less than 15 percent of patients surviving five years. The lungs...New imaging method gives early indication if brain cancer therapy is effective, U-M study shows
...elp doctors determine early in the course of brain cancer regimen if a patient's tumor will shrink, a new st...g therapy to determine if the tumor shrank. If the cancer did not respond to the treatment, a new approach may be tried. Using diffusion MRI and the function...Enzyme shown to help protect genomic stability
...meres, such events may accelerate aging or trigger cancer in humans." "We have identified a molecular mechanism to explain how this enzyme helps keep telomeric DNA silenced and potentially protects the genome from destabilizing activity," says N.C. Tolga Emre, a graduate student in Berger's laboratory and ...BRCA1 causes ovarian cancer through indirect, biochemical route
Mutated BRCA1 genes cause ovarian cancer indirectly, by interfering with the biochemical si...ween different cell types." The well-known breast cancer gene, BRCA1, not only gives carriers of its mutated form a four in five chance of developing breast ...Scientists decipher genome of fungus that can cause life-threatening infections
...y,including those who have HIV/AIDS or who receive cancer chemotherapy,steroid treatments, or therapy to prevent rejection of transplantedorgans. One study indicated that as many as 13 percent of AIDS patientssuffer a life-threatening cryptococcal infection at some point duringthe course of their HIV diseas...Needling Chromosomes Reveals Cell Division Secret
...This creates chromosome imbalances thatcan lead to cancer or chromosomal abnormalitiesthat cause birthdefects."According to Nicklas, it was known that the two sister chromatidsadhered to one another and released at the appropriate time during celldivision. However, that understanding was based on biochemica...Researchers identify target for cancer drugs
...hat may present drug makers with a significant new cancer target. "We believe that we have identified a component that researchers have been looking for since 1996," says Whitehead Associate Member David Sabatini, who is also an Assistant Professor of Biology at MIT. At the heart of this new research is a...Protein Packages Found To Activate Genes; May Be What Regulates Development And Disease
...th," Bernstein notes. "Some of the genes can cause cancer directly when altered by mutations." "The work we're doing now is very fundamental," he says. "But what we learn about the interactions between chromatin, its tags, and various proteins that interact with them may one day be useful for understanding...First 'atlas' of key brain genes could speed research on cancer, neurological diseases
...’s laboratory is focused on thestubborn problem of cancer pain: He and his students are screening theatlas f...theHarvard Medical School and is among the leading cancer research andcare centers in the United States. It is a founding member of theDana-Farber/Harvard Can...U-M scientists find genes that control growth of common skin cancer
...y in basal cell carcinoma ?the most common form of cancer ?anduncovered a subset of tumor cells that were re...CCs, as well as other cancers. In contrastto other cancer models where inhibition of Hh signaling leads todurable tumor regression, Dlugosz's new work raises ...Two compounds that zero in on cancer cells spreading throughout the body, while ignorin...s, prevented 91 to 99 percent of metastatic breast cancer cells in mice, and are the first to target only metastatic cells. "They're unbelievably effective, ...Critical role in programmed cell death identified
...g a process vital to development and implicated in cancer and autoimmune diseases. The work, reported in the February 17 issue of Nature, demonstrates the role of mitochondria, the cellular power plant, in prompting worm cells to self destruct. These results unify cell death models along the evolutionary s...Taking Aim With Nanoparticle PEBBLEs
...ts using PEBBLEs to treat a virulent form of brain cancer in rats. PEBBLEs are polymer spheres, typically 2...RI images, and others to deliver a deadly cargo to cancer cells when triggered by exposure to light. Unlike chemotherapy drugs that attack tumors by invading...Study shows nanoshells ideal as chemical nanosensors
... already beingdeveloped for applications including cancer diagnosis, cancer therapy,diagnosis and testing for proteins associated with Alzheimer's disease,drug delivery and rap...Gene Vaccine Protects Mice Against Development Of Her2/neu Breast Cancer
... a protein often present / surexpressed in breast cancer ]Their study, published in the online journal, Bre...ace receptor protein, whichcontinuously “tells?the cancer cell to grow, this producing anaggressive disease that is difficult to stop.The drug Herceptin treat...A comprehensive response to HIV could prevent 10 million AIDS deaths in Africa by 2020
... a protein often present / surexpressed in breast cancer ]Their study, published in the online journal, Bre...ace receptor protein, whichcontinuously “tells?the cancer cell to grow, this producing anaggressive disease that is difficult to stop.The drug Herceptin treat......test article just days before his death from colon cancer on July 28, 2004, at age 88. The online exhibition features correspondence, lecture notes, draft and published articles, laboratory notebooks, and photographs from the Francis Crick collection at the Wellcome Library. Visitors to the site can view, ...Researchers add new tool to tumor-treatment arsenal
...agents that damage DNA with a drug that sensitizes cancer cells to these agents. The research, led by Georg...tients and the failure to blunt the disease. When cancer cells are treated with a DNA-damaging agent, a cancer-suppressing gene known as the "guardian of the...Potential Cure for Lymphoma in HIV patients
...V-negativeindividuals, and the treatment for their cancer is far less likely tobe successful. SonaliSmith, ...an 55 who had poorer prognosticfactors: either the cancer had spread to multiple lymph nodes or thepatient had bulky disease (indicated by a cancerous mass gr...Deficiency of growth hormone and IGF-1 reduces cancer and kidney disease, but creates other problems
...of growth hormone and similar compounds may reduce cancer and kidney disease late in life, but also may lead...shed on-line today. But the hormones also increase cancer and other diseases that limit lifespan. The researchers developed a strain of dwarf rats that were ...Research Gives Hope For Liver Damage
...womenin the UK now die of liver failure than do of cancer of the cervix."There has been a fourfold increase in the number of men aged 45-54dying of cirrhosis since 1970 and a threefold increase in women of thesame age group. Liver failure is also rapidly increasing in youngerpeople with the deaths in the UK...An entropy-based gene selection method for cancer classification using microarray data
Accurate diagnosis of cancer subtypes remains a challenging problem. Building c...oposed that selects genes related to the different cancer classes while at the same time reducing the redundancy among the genes. Results The present study ...New protein discovered by Hebrew University researchers
...lopment of futurenanocapsules for drug delivery to cancer cells.In addition to being obtained from plant tis...roying drugsspecifically to certain types of solid cancer tumors. The protein'stiny structure enables this carrier to penetrate specifically intotumors withou...The death of a very special chimpanzee
...lopment of futurenanocapsules for drug delivery to cancer cells.In addition to being obtained from plant tis...roying drugsspecifically to certain types of solid cancer tumors. The protein'stiny structure enables this carrier to penetrate specifically intotumors withou...Circles Of DNA Might Help Predict Success Of Stem Cell Transplantation
...ll be available to launch attacks on the patient's cancer cells--the so-called "graft-versus-tumor" response...ing work in finding cures and saving children with cancer and other catastrophic diseases. Founded by late entertainer Danny Thomas and based in Memphis, Tenn...UCLA scientists transform HIV into cancer-seeking missile
...oteins -- molecules located on the surface of many cancer cells. The UCLA team is the first to prove that mo...ccer goalies and punt therapeutic drugs out of the cancer cell. This prevents the drug from taking effect and allows the tumor to continue growing unchecked."...New Breast Cancer Test Could Save Lives
...veloping a revolutionary new test to detect breast cancer at an early stage. If successful, this test will b...effective for women of all ages; given that breast cancer is the largest killer of women between the ages of 35-55 in Europe, the test could have a dramatic e...Estrogen-like Component of Plastic Stimulates Growth of Certain Prostate Cancer Cells
...rage the growth of a specific category of prostate cancer cell,potentially affecting the treatment efficacy ...e January 1 issue of CancerResearch, such prostate cancer cells proved to be vulnerable toexposure to the chemical BPA (bisophenol A), an industrial chemical ...Novel ultrafast laser detection of cancer cells also may improve understanding of stem cells
...ucidation of biophotonic differences in normal and cancer cells by using intracellular mitochondria as bioma...isease. This technique holds promise for detecting cancer at a very early stage and could nearly eliminate delays in diagnosis and treatment." The technique ...Breast Cancer May Be 'Uniquely Sensitive' To Inhibitors Of PI3K Pathway
...sphatidylinositol 3 kinase (PI3K)pathway to breast cancer development, says Gordon Mills, M.D., Ph.D., aprof... recognized theimportance of the pathway in breast cancer and are trying to developdrugs that target it.?In the future, breast cancer tissue samples fromnewly...Other ContentsvenomvenomvenomvenerealvenerealvertebraevertebraevertebraevertebraevertebraevertigovertigovenipuncturetachycardiatachycardiaventricularventricularventricularventricularventricularinsufficiencyinsufficiencyinsufficiencyinsufficiencyinsufficiencyOther Tags
(Date:5/14/2008)...Genetic differences may explain the greater risk f...th Hispanic men, which could help clinicians predi...rding to a paper published in the May 15, 2008, is...American Association for Cancer Research. , Curr...or prostate cancer is the prostate specific antige...
(Date:5/14/2008)...A new NASA-led study shows human-caused climate ch... natural systems, including permafrost thawing, pl...lining in productivity in Africa. , Cynthia Ros...nce in New York and scientists at 10 other institu...since 1970 with rises in temperatures during that ...
(Date:5/14/2008)...s. May 14, 2008 A team composed of Harvard stude...Banks Lighting Africa 2008 Development Marketplace..., 2008. The innovation, microbial fuel cell-based ...netted the group a $200,000 prize. , According t...pulation has access to grid-based electricity most...
(Date:5/14/2008)...Okla.OSUs Technology Business Assessment Group wil...008. The group identified these one-year projects... response to a solicitation earlier this spring. ... Office of Intellectual Property Management, and i...ogies. These funded projects show a significant pr...
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