Oncology & Cancer
Cancer hijack
Genetically unstable breast cancer cells appear to hijack a mechanism used by healthy stem cells to determine how they should develop into different tissues, according to new research.
Jul 19, 2013
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News tagged with therapeutic strategy
Oncology & Cancer
Clinical trials for cancer, one patient at a time
Columbia University Medical Center (CUMC) researchers are developing a new approach to cancer clinical trials, in which therapies are designed and tested one patient at a time. The patient's tumor is "reverse engineered" ...
Jul 15, 2013
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Medications
Type 2 diabetes mellitus: Added benefit of canagliflozin is not proven
Canagliflozin (trade name: Invokana) has been approved since November 2013 as monotherapy and in various combination therapies for adults with type 2 diabetes mellitus when diet and exercise alone do not provide adequate ...
Jun 17, 2014
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
New publication examines effect of early drug administration on Alzheimer's animal model
In a study published June 25 in the Journal of Neuroscience, a collaborative team of researchers led by Linda J. Van Eldik, director of the University of Kentucky Sanders-Brown Center on Aging, and D. Martin Watterson of ...
Jul 24, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers discover a treatment against an aggressive childhood cancer
A study made by IDIBELL researchers shows that glucose metabolism inhibition with 2-deoxyglucose (2-DG) induces cell death in a type of childhood sarcoma: alveolar rhabdomyosarcoma. The results have been published in the ...
Sep 14, 2011
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Oncology & Cancer
Skin cancer rewires its energy systems to spread more efficiently, finds study
Melanoma skin cancer cells radically rewire their internal power systems to drive their spread to other parts of the body, a new study shows.
May 25, 2023
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Oncology & Cancer
Study finds tumor suppressor may actually fuel aggressive leukemia
New research in the Journal of Clinical Investigation suggests that blocking a protein normally credited with suppressing leukemia may be a promising therapeutic strategy for an aggressive form of the disease called acute ...
Aug 27, 2013
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers discover new weapon in fight against cervical cancer
Scientists at the University of Leeds have found a way to target and destroy a key protein associated with the development of cervical and other cancers.
May 30, 2013
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Immunology
Scientists collaborate in discovery of new targets for the treatment of asthma
A collaboration between scientists in Trinity College Dublin and the United Kingdom has identified new processes that lead to the development of a novel cell implicated in allergies. The discovery has the potential for new ...
Feb 27, 2012
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Medical research
Scientists shed light on mystery surrounding hepatitis B virus: Discovery is decades in the making
(Medical Xpress)—Scientists from the National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases (NIAMS), part of the National Institutes of Health, and the University of Oxford, U.K., have shed light on a long-standing ...
Jan 9, 2013
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