News tagged with cell survival

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Researchers discover gene that permanently stops cancer cell proliferation

Researchers at Case Western Reserve University School of Medicine have discovered a mutant form of the gene, Chk1, that when expressed in cancer cells, permanently stopped their proliferation and caused cell death without ...

Cancer created Aug 01, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (49) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Biomedical engineers patch a heart using novel tissue cell therapy

(Medical Xpress) -- Researchers at Columbia Engineering have established a new method to patch a damaged heart using a tissue-engineering platform that enables heart tissue to repair itself. This breakthrough, ...

Cardiology created May 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers develop oxygen-generating biomaterial

Scientists at the Diabetes Research Institute have developed a revolutionary technique to provide critical oxygen for maintaining the survival of insulin-producing cells. This is the first time that scientists have been able ...

Medical research created Mar 01, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Common food preservative may slow, even stop tumor growth

Nisin, a common food preservative, may slow or stop squamous cell head and neck cancers, a University of Michigan study found.

Cancer created Oct 31, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (6) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Breakthrough in understanding lung cancer vulnerabilities points the way to new targeted therapy

More effective treatments for one of the deadliest forms of cancer are one step closer thanks to groundbreaking research from an international collaborative study.

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Four-week vaccination regimen knocks out early breast cancer tumors, researchers find

Researchers at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania report that a short course of vaccination with an anti-HER2 dendritic cell vaccine made partly from the patient's own cells triggers a complete ...

Cancer created Jan 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers 'switch off' neurodegeneration in mice

Researchers at the Medical Research Council (MRC) Toxicology Unit at the University of Leicester have identified a major pathway leading to brain cell death in mice with neurodegenerative disease. The team was able to block ...

Neuroscience created May 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New hope for setback-dogged cancer treatment

Several drugs companies have ineffectively tried to produce antibodies that bind to the IGF-1 receptor on the cell surface, which has a critical part to play in the development of cancer. Scientists at Karolinska Institutet ...

Cancer created Nov 26, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel drug combination offers therapeutic promise for hard-to-treat cancers

Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) have identified a new combination of targeted therapies that, together, may treat two aggressive tumor types that until now have not had effective treatments. These findings ...

Cancer created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Turning up the heat to kill cancer cells: The 'Lance Armstrong effect'

The "Lance Armstrong effect" could become a powerful new weapon to fight cancer cells that develop resistance to chemotherapy, radiation and other treatments, scientists say in a report in the ACS journal ...

Cancer created Oct 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1

Viruses kill pancreatic tumors in preclinical model

(Medical Xpress) -- An intra-tumor injection of a virus prevented further growth of some pancreatic tumors and eradicated others in mouse models of pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma. However, some tumors continued growing ...

Medical research created Mar 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists tailor cell surface targeting system to hit organelle ZIP codes

Scientists who developed a technology for identifying and targeting unique protein receptor ZIP Codes on the cellular surface have found a way to penetrate the outer membrane and deliver engineered particles - called iPhage ...

Medical research created Apr 17, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Unexpected discovery highlights new role for cell death regulator

An unexpected discovery of how the body controls cell death has revealed a potential new therapeutic target.

Medical research created Jun 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell death mystery yields new suspect for cancer drug development

A mysterious form of cell death, coded in proteins and enzymes, led to a discovery by UNC researchers uncovering a prime suspect for new cancer drug development.

Cancer created Sep 13, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

A quantum leap in gene therapy of Duchenne muscular dystrophy

Usually, results from a new study help scientists inch their way toward an answer whether they are battling a health problem or are on the verge of a technological breakthrough. Once in a while, those results ...

Medical research created Jan 15, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast