Oncology & Cancer
Novel cancer cell DNA damage repair mechanism unveils
Research with a Finnish background facilitates the development of more effective cancer medication
Dec 10, 2013
0
0
Page 35 - News tagged with cell division
Oncology & Cancer
Synthetic RNAs designed to fight cancer
(Medical Xpress)—In search of better cancer treatments, researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have designed synthetic molecules that combine the advantages of two experimental RNA therapies.
Dec 6, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Cancer-promoting protein is vital to safe division of tumor cells
Researchers have caught a protein they previously implicated in a variety of cancer-promoting roles performing a vital function in cell division, survival and development of brain tumors.
Dec 6, 2013
0
0
Medical research
Online platform simulates how the body defends itself
A platform that simulates how the body defends itself: The T cells of the immune system decide whether to trigger an immune response against foreign substances. Since December 2013 scientists from around the world can use ...
Dec 6, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
CNIO team turns tumor suppressor into anti-cancer target
The laboratory of Marcos Malumbres, who is head of the Spanish National Cancer Research Centre's (CNIO) Cell Division & Cancer Group, working alongside Isabel Fariñas' team from the University of Valencia, shows, in a study ...
Dec 4, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Protein folding becomes cancer treatment target
(Medical Xpress)—A molecule that helps cancer cells to keep dividing could be a promising target for new treatments, according to research published in the journal Oncogene.
Dec 3, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Substance suppresses unchecked leukemia cell division
Scientists of the University of Freiburg and the Freiburg University Medical Center from the collaborative research center Medical Epigenetics (SFB 992) have discovered a new active substance that inhibits cell division in ...
Nov 26, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Biologists ID new cancer weakness
About half of all cancer patients have a mutation in a gene called p53, which allows tumors to survive and continue growing even after chemotherapy severely damages their DNA.
Nov 14, 2013
0
0
Medical research
New treatment for African sleeping sickness comes closer
Researchers at Umeå University have identified drugs targeting infections of the parasite Trypanosoma brucei and are thereby well on the way to find a cure against African sleeping sickness. This is the kernel of a thesis, ...
Nov 6, 2013
0
0
Oncology & Cancer
Newly identified protein could be a cancer key
Scientists at the University of Dundee have identified a protein that could be key in the fight against cancer.
Nov 1, 2013
0
0
