News tagged with cancer growth
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Building better blood vessels could advance tissue engineering
One of the major obstacles to growing new organs—replacement hearts, lungs and kidneys—is the difficulty researchers face in building blood vessels that keep the tissues alive, but new findings from the ...
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Apr 04, 2013 |
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Scissor-like enzyme points toward treatment of infectious disease
UT Southwestern Medical Center researchers report that a pathogen annually blamed for an estimated 90 million cases of food-borne illness defeats a host's immune response by using a fat-snipping enzyme to ...
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Apr 04, 2013 |
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Genetic vulnerability of lung cancer to lay foundation for new drug options
Physician-researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a vulnerability of certain lung-cancer cells – a specific genetic weakness that can be exploited for new therapies.
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Apr 04, 2013 |
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Researchers say one specific microrna promotes tumor growth and cancer spread
Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center have determined that the overexpression of microRNA-155 (miR-155), a short, single strand of ribonucleic acid encoded by the miR-155 host gene, promotes the growth of blood vessels in ...
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Apr 03, 2013 |
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Fatty acid metabolite shows promise against cancer in mice
A team of UC Davis scientists has found that a product resulting from a metabolized omega-3 fatty acid helps combat cancer by cutting off the supply of oxygen and nutrients that fuel tumor growth and spread of the disease.
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Apr 02, 2013 |
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Cholesterol-lowering eye drops could treat macular degeneration
A new study raises the intriguing possibility that drugs prescribed to lower cholesterol may be effective against macular degeneration, a blinding eye disease.
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Apr 02, 2013 |
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Mechanism of mutant histone protein in childhood brain cancer revealed
(Medical Xpress)—Most cancer treatments are blunt. In an attempt to eradicate tumors, oncologists often turn to radiation or chemotherapy, which can damage healthy tissue along with the cancerous growths. ...
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Apr 01, 2013 |
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Researchers help test cancer drug in clinical trial leading to FDA approval
The FDA has approved a thyroid cancer drug successfully tested at Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Clinical Trials, a partnership of Scottsdale Healthcare and the Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen).
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Mar 27, 2013 |
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46 gene sequencing test for cancer patients on the NHS
The first multi-gene DNA sequencing test that can help predict cancer patients' responses to treatment has been launched in the National Health Service (NHS), thanks to a partnership between scientists at the University of ...
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Mar 25, 2013 |
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Immortality gene mutation identifies brain tumors, other cancers
Newly identified mutations in a gene that makes cells immortal appear to play a pivotal role in three of the most common types of brain tumors, as well as cancers of the liver, tongue and urinary tract, according to research ...
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Mar 18, 2013 |
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Fasting time for tumour cells
(Medical Xpress)—Tumours need a steady supply of sufficient nutrients to be able to grow. In order to secure the nutrient availability, they secrete messenger compounds to stimulate neighbouring blood vessels ...
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Mar 15, 2013 |
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BRAF inhibitor treatment causes melanoma cells to shift how they produce energy
A multi-institutional study has revealed that BRAF-positive metastatic malignant melanomas develop resistance to treatment with drugs targeting the BRAF/MEK growth pathway through a major change in metabolism. The findings, ...
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Mar 08, 2013 |
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Cancer-promoting protein found to also suppress cell growth
Some cellular proteins have multiple, and occasionally opposing, functions. Professor Adrian Krainer [link: Faculty profile] and colleagues at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory demonstrate in a paper published online today in ...
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Mar 07, 2013 |
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Comparing combination therapies for advanced head and neck cancer shows no improvement
Locally advanced squamous cell carcinoma of the head and neck is a potentially curable disease in nearly every patient at the time of diagnosis, yet despite the most aggressive efforts, up to 30-50 percent ...
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Mar 07, 2013 |
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Colonoscopy screening reduces risk of advanced colorectal cancer, study finds
A new study led by the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania adds support to current medical recommendations stating that screening colonoscopy substantially reduces an average-risk adult's likelihood ...
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