A molecular explanation for age-related fertility decline in women
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists supported by the National Institutes of Health have a new theory as to why a woman's fertility declines after her mid-30s. They also suggest an approach that might help slow ...
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May 22, 2013 |
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New study reveals how tumor suppressor p53 shut down in metastatic melanoma
Cancer cells are a problem for the body because they multiply recklessly, refuse to die and blithely metastasize to set up shop in places where they don't belong. One protein that keeps healthy cells from behaving this way ...
Cancer
Apr 25, 2013 |
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Researchers abuzz over caffeine as cancer-cell killer
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers from the University of Alberta are abuzz after using fruit flies to find new ways of taking advantage of caffeine's lethal effects on cancer cells—results that could one day ...
Cancer
Apr 18, 2013 |
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New drug combination therapy developed to treat leukemia
A new, pre-clinical study by researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center suggests that a novel drug combination could lead to profound leukemia cell death by disrupting the function of two major pro-survival ...
Cancer
Apr 17, 2013 |
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Cancer cell metabolism kills
Adenosine-5'-triphosphate (ATP) is the main energy source for all forms of work inside our cells. Scientists from the University of Helsinki, Finland, have found that even a short-term shortage of ATP supply ...
Cancer
Apr 15, 2013 |
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Preventing suicide: A critical next step
Doctors may in the future be able to take a blood test to determine if a patient is suicidal, hopefully decreasing the number of people taking their own lives.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Feb 20, 2013 |
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Stem cell survival strategy key to blood and immune system health
Stem cells of the aging bone marrow recycle their own molecules to survive and keep replenishing the blood and immune systems as the body ages, researchers at UC San Francisco (UCSF) have discovered.
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Feb 14, 2013 |
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Countering brain chemical could prevent suicides
(Medical Xpress)—Researchers have found the first proof that a chemical in the brain called glutamate is linked to suicidal behavior, offering new hope for efforts to prevent people from taking their own ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 14, 2012 |
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MicroRNA makes triple-negative breast cancer homesick
Epithelial cells are homebodies – they like to attach to things and becoming detached initiates a form of cell suicide known as anoikis (literally "homeless" in Latin). But in order for cancer cells to metastasize they ...
Cancer
Nov 21, 2012 |
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Hunting neuron killers in Alzheimer's and traumatic brain injury
Levels of the protein appoptosin in the brain skyrocket in Alzheimer's disease and traumatic brain injury. Appoptosin is known for helping the body make heme, the molecule that carries iron in the blood. In a study published ...
Neuroscience
Nov 09, 2012 |
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Key discovered to how chemotherapy drug causes heart failure
Doxorubicin, a 50-year-old chemotherapy drug still in widespread use against a variety of cancers, has long been known to destroy heart tissue, as well as tumors, in some patients.
Cancer
Oct 28, 2012 |
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Immune cells of the blood might replace dysfunctional brain cells
Blood-circulating immune cells can take over the essential immune surveillance of the brain, this is shown by scientists of the German Center for Neurodegenerative Diseases and the Hertie Institute for Clinical Brain Research ...
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Oct 22, 2012 |
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Study uncovers mechanism by which tumor suppressor MIG6 triggers cell suicide
Death plays a big role in keeping things alive. Consider the tightly orchestrated suicide of cells—a phenomenon essential to everything from shaping an embryo to keeping it free of cancer later in life. ...
Cancer
Sep 24, 2012 |
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Toxoplasma gondii parasite may trigger suicide attempts
A parasite thought to be harmless and found in many people may actually be causing subtle changes in the brain, leading to suicide attempts.
Medical research
Aug 16, 2012 |
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Scientists devise new strategy to destroy multiple myeloma
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University Massey Cancer Center are reporting promising results from laboratory and animal experiments involving a new combination therapy for multiple myeloma, the second most common ...
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Aug 14, 2012 |
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