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Overfishing may drive endangered seabird to rely upon lower quality food

...od ends between August and September. Brown-tipped breast feathers are only lost in the pre-breeding period, while all-white breast feathers and wing feathers are lost in the post-breeding period. The researchers were thus able to ...

Harnessing genomic research

...on of spinal nerve cells, a new way to personalise breast cancer treatment, rapid near-patient diagnosis of ...sulting from the loss of specific gene function in breast cancers that will correlate with susceptibility to a new anti-cancer drug being developed by KuDOS. ...

Microarray technology for tailoring breast cancer therapy

...r therapy according to the individual, and prevent breast cancer patients from having to undergo painful uns...ponse in the five years after adjuvant therapy for breast cancer. Identifying patients whose breast tumours express these genes could potentially be used to p...

New brain scan technology could save babies' lives

...inical use. The potential use of the technology in breast imaging to aid cancer prevention and treatment is also being trialled. Dr Adam Gibson is a key member of the multi-disciplinary MONSTIR team at UCL that includes medics, physiologists and mathematicians. He says: "The technology we're developing ha...

FSU biologists describe key role of signal-transcribing gene during cell cycle

...disorder; and later life ills such as Alzheimer's, breast and lung cancer, and leukemia. "We now know that the transcription factor Cut is the key there," said Deng. Assisted by FSU graduate student and co-author Jianjun Sun, Deng conducted the study using the powerful Drosophila (fruit fly) genetic model...

Nanoparticles, nanoshells, nanotubes: How tiny specks may provide powerful tools against cancer

...o image, target and destroy primary and metastatic breast cancer cells. A novel kind of "nanocomplex" cons...n electrical charge between two different types of breast cancer cells. One type, human BT474 breast cancer cells, had moderate IGF1R expression, while the ot...

Double trouble: Cells with duplicate genomes can trigger tumors

...rd Medical School. The researchers treated normal breast cells with a compound that interfered with the fin...ated in many forms of cancer. Compared with normal breast cells, the double-value cells tended to be genomically unstable. When injected under the skin of la...

Polymer gel can block toxic leakage problem in gene therapy

...les went during 24 hours after being injected into breast tumors implanted in experimental mice. That inves...s," their study reported. In comparative tests on breast tumors implanted in live mice, the authors noted that two mice in the group injected with adenovirus...

University of Delaware researchers develop cancer 'nanobomb'

...ucing a unique nanobomb that can literally blow up breast cancer tumors. Balaji Panchapakesan, assistant p... killing cancer cells, with particular emphasis on breast cancer cells, because its shockwave kills the cancerous cells as well as the biological pathways tha...

Researchers discover why melanoma is so malignant

...ls underneath the skin of mice. Mice injected with breast cancer cells or with fibroblast (connective tissue) cancer cells developed tumors, but the tumors didn't spread. Those injected with melanoma cells immediately developed invasive tumors throughout their body, spreading everywhere from the lungs to th...

Building a better mouse model of lung cancer: FHIT counts

...n linked to head and neck, esophageal, colorectal, breast and cervical cancers as well. Because the loss of FHIT occurs so early in lung cancer, mice that are missing that gene may be a good model in which to test new ways to treat or prevent the disease, says Huebner. "There are some other useful mouse mo...

Anti-cancer Compound In Beer Gaining Interest

...herbal preparations are already being marketed for breast enlargement in women, the OSU research report said, without waiting for tests to verify their safety or efficacy. And a supposed "health" beer is being developed in Germany with higher levels of xanthohumol. It's possible, scientists say, that hops ...

Scientists develop nanotech-laser treatment that kills cancer cells without harming healthy tissue

...livered to diseased cells by direct injection. "In breast cancer, for example, there might come a time when we inject nanotubes into the tumor and expose the breast to near-infrared light," he says. This benign therapy could potentially eliminate months of debilita...

Study hints at role of stem cell genes in testicular, breast cancers

...onic stem cell genes is elevated in testicular and breast cancers, providing some of the first molecular evi...equent cancer in Caucasian males ages 15-40 -- and breast cancers, as represented by a sample of breast cancer cells grown in the culture dish and tissue from...

Nanotechnology to provide portable genetic risk detection

...for between 2.5 and 5 per cent of the incidence of breast cancer in women. The final system, however, could ...risk groups such as women with a family history of breast cancer. To detect genetic mutations the OPTONANOGEN system uses an array of 20 microcantilevers coa...

Scientists discover genetic pathway responsible for breast cancer cell growth

...f how the female hormone estrogen causes growth of breast cancer cells. The research, in collaboration with ... particular that can be used to halt the growth of breast cancer cells. The study, published in today's Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS)...

Breast tumors in mice eradicated using cancer vaccine

Findings could lead to new immune therapy for breast cancer A team from the University of Pennsylvania...monocytogenes, they can cure mice with established breast tumors. Cancer vaccines, which are more properly described as immunotherapy, work by boosting an imm...

Researchers discover new tumor defense system

...roying tumor cells. The second thing is that human breast cancer cells, but not normal tissue from the same breast, produce very large amounts of the type of free fatty acids that block the cytotoxic T lymphocytes. Thus the cancer may have a way of defending itself against attack by the immune system, there...

Suppressing growth hormone in early adulthood may prevent cancer

...men have been demonstrated to be a risk factor for breast cancer as well as numerous other cancers," said Sonntag, professor of physiology and pharmacology at the School of Medicine, a part of Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center. IGF-1 in the blood also may act as a tumor promoter during the earl...

Columbia scientists develop cancer terminator viruses

...tor" virus, which selectively replicates and kills breast cancer cells in mice. Human breast tumor xenografts were established on both sides of immune-deficient mice. Results found that treati...

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