Oncology & Cancer
Study reveals new insight into tumor progression
Scientists know that activation of growth factor receptors like epidermal growth factor receptors (EGFR) promote tumor progression in many types of cancer.
Aug 17, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
New clues about the risk of cancer from low-dose radiation
Scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have uncovered new clues about the risk of cancer from low-dose radiation, which in this research they define as equivalent ...
Mar 10, 2015
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microRNA silencing provides a successful new model for cancer therapeutics
Since the discovery that microRNAs play key roles in regulating human disease, the hope has been that these short non-coding RNA molecules could be translated into a therapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancer. But this ...
Nov 17, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Stopping anti-CCL2 breast cancer treatment aggravates the disease
Mohamed Bentires-Alj and his team at the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (FMI) together with scientists from the Novartis Institutes for BioMedical Research (NIBR) show in a study published today in Nature ...
Oct 23, 2014
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Medical research
Microenvironment of hematopoietic stem cells can be a target for myeloproliferative disorders
The protective microenvironment of the hematopoietic stem cell niche, which produces cells of the blood and the immune system, also protects against myeloproliferative neoplasia.
Jun 22, 2014
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Oncology & Cancer
Researchers show how brain's micro-environment fuels metastatic tumor growth
When a cancer cell breaks off from a tumor in the breast, lung or other part of the body and flows through the bloodstream to the brain, trouble erupts. Like a dandelion seed landing in the most fertile of soils, the tumor ...
Aug 9, 2013
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Neuroscience
No genetic clock for neuron longevity
(Medical Xpress)—People are living longer than ever before, thanks to medical and technological advances. Unfortunately, aging can be associated with a decrease in brain function. This is because, unlike other cells in ...
Oncology & Cancer
Scientists discover key process that allows colon cancer to metastasize
A team of 17 researchers, led by scientists Eduard Batlle and Elena Sancho in the Colorectal Cancer Laboratory at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona), have determined that the ability of colon cancer ...
Nov 12, 2012
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Oncology & Cancer
Taming physical forces that block cancer treatment
A Massachusetts General Hospital research team has identified factors that contribute to solid stress within tumors, suggesting possible ways to alleviate it, and has developed a simple way to measure such pressures.
Sep 20, 2012
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Medical research
Embryonic blood vessels that make blood stem cells can also make beating heart muscles
UCLA stem cell researchers have found for the first time a surprising and unexpected plasticity in the embryonic endothelium, the place where blood stem cells are made in early development.
Aug 2, 2012
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