Staphylococcus aureus hides out in cells
... shows how S. aureus makes itself at home in human lung cells for up to two weeks. A team of 12 researche... to uncover what S. aureus (6850) did inside human lung epithelial cells (A549) using an in vitro model. They found that shortly after S. aureus entered the...Cancer stem cells similar to normal stem cells can thwart anti-cancer agents
...for chemotherapy to be truly effective in treating lung cancers, for example, it must be able to target a ...own share the same protective mechanisms as normal lung stem cells. They are presenting this ground-breaking research at the Tissue Engineering and Regenera...U-M researchers discover gene switched off in cancer can be turned on
... drugs,” Reisman says. The researchers targeted lung cancer cell lines in particular, although they fou...cer cell lines tested. A potential target to treat lung cancer is particularly crucial as the death rate from lung cancer has not changed in 30 years. Newer...Enzyme delivered in smaller package protects cells from radiation damage
...urrently conducting a phase I/II clinical trial in lung cancer patients consisting of twice-weekly swallowed MnSOD for protection of the esophagus from chemoradiotherapy damage, these results suggest that minicircle DNA containing the human MnSOD transgene confers undiminished radioprotection to cells. ...