News tagged with therapeutic drug


Whole genome sequencing of rare olfactory neuroblastoma

The Translational Genomics Research Institute (TGen) and the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center at Scottsdale Healthcare have conducted whole genome sequencing (WGS) of a rare nasal tract cancer called olfactory neuroblastoma ...

Genetics created May 23, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chronic pain is relieved by cell transplantation in lab study (Update)

(Medical Xpress) -- Chronic pain, by definition, is difficult to manage, but a new study by UCSF scientists shows how a cell therapy might one day be used not only to quell some common types of persistent ...

Neuroscience created May 23, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Dabrafenib shrinks melanoma brain metastases in phase I clinical trial

An experimental drug targeting a common mutation in melanoma successfully shrank tumors that spread to the brain in nine out of 10 patients in part of an international phase I clinical trial report in the May 18 issue of ...

Cancer created May 17, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Early biomarker for pancreatic cancer identified

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and Moores Cancer Center have identified a new biomarker and therapeutic target for pancreatic cancer, an often-fatal disease for which there is currently ...

Cancer created May 15, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Drug kills cancer cells by restoring faulty tumor suppressor

A new study describes a compound that selectively kills cancer cells by restoring the structure and function of one of the most commonly mutated proteins in human cancer, the "tumor suppressor" p53. The research, published ...

Cancer created May 14, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Advanced pancreatic tumors depend on continued oncogene activity

Researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have shown that advanced pancreatic cancers in mice can't survive without continued expression of a mutant oncogene that "rewires" key metabolic pathways to fuel the cancer cells.

Cancer created Apr 26, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Study points to potential treatment for stroke

Stanford University School of Medicine neuroscientists have demonstrated, in a study to be published online April 24 in Stroke, that a compound mimicking a key activity of a hefty, brain-based protein is capable of increa ...

Cardiology created Apr 24, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Little evidence that insect bite remedies work

There is little evidence that over the counter remedies for simple insect bites actually work, and in most cases, no treatment at all will suffice, concludes an evidence review in the April Drug and Therapeutics Bulletin (DTB). ...

Medications created Apr 11, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Treatment hope for Duchenne muscular dystrophy

An international team led by the University of Melbourne Australia, has found that increasing a specific protein in muscles could help treat Duchenne muscular dystrophy (DMD), a severe and progressive muscle wasting disease ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

BIND presents late-breaker clinical data at AACR on BIND-014's promising antitumor effects

BIND Biosciences, a clinical-stage biopharmaceutical company developing a new class of highly selective targeted therapeutics called AccurinsTM, announced today the presentation of late-breaker clinical data for BIND-014, ...

Cancer created Apr 04, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

New drug prevents spread of human prostate cancer cells

A new drug developed by Northwestern Medicine scientists prevented human prostate cancer cells from spreading to other tissues without any toxic effects to normal cells or tissues. The drug turns off the "go" switch in the ...

Cancer created Apr 03, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New research finds cause of morphine side effects

A University of Colorado Boulder-led research team has discovered that two protein receptors in the central nervous system team up to respond to morphine and cause unwanted neuroinflammation, a finding with implications for ...

Medical research created Apr 02, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

The path to personalized cancer treatment

In the largest study of its kind, researchers have profiled genetic changes in cancer with drug sensitivity in order to develop a personalised approach to cancer treatments. The study is published in Nature on Thursday 29 Mar ...

Cancer created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research provides new hope for those suffering from Crohn's disease

Researchers from the Hotchkiss Brain Institute (HBI) and the Snyder Institute for Chronic Diseases at the University of Calgary's Faculty of Medicine have discovered a pathway that may contribute to the symptoms related to ...

Inflammatory disorders created Mar 21, 2012 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Engineering whole organs: Closing in on a potential solution to the organ donor shortage?

A new technique involving the use of an artificial scaffold into which a patient's own stem cells are inserted, turning it into a fully functional organ, could offer a potential solution to the donor shortage crisis, according ...

Medical research created Mar 08, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0