News tagged with alkylating agents
Nanotubes Sniff Out Cancer Agents in Living Cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- A multidisciplinary team at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) has developed carbon nanotubes that can be used as sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells. The ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Jan 16, 2009 |
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OSU chemist developing solution to nerve agent exposure
Scientists are working to develop a new drug that will regenerate a critical enzyme in the human body that "ages" after a person is exposed to deadly chemical warfare agents.
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Surgical technique helps adult male survivors of childhood cancer regain fertility
A new study has shown that a surgical technique called microdissection testicular sperm extraction (TESE) can effectively locate and extract viable sperm in more than one-third of adult male childhood cancer survivors who ...
Mar 14, 2011 |
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Newly discovered DNA repair mechanism
Tucked within its double-helix structure, DNA contains the chemical blueprint that guides all the processes that take place within the cell and are essential for life. Therefore, repairing damage and maintaining the integrity ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 04, 2010 |
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Less intensive drug schedule as effective as standard treatment for blood cancer
A less intensive bortezomib-based regimen (given once instead of twice per week) followed by maintenance therapy, is as effective as the standard treatment for elderly patients with multiple myeloma, but with fewer serious ...
Aug 23, 2010 |
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Drug shows positive responses, low side-effects in multiple myeloma
NEW ORLEANS ― The second-generation proteasome inhibitor carfilzomib is showing noteworthy response rates and low levels of adverse side effects among multiple myeloma patients in a phase II clinical trial, researchers ...
Dec 07, 2009 |
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Team led by Scripps research scientists finds new way that cells fix damage to DNA
A team of researchers at The Scripps Research Institute and other institutions has discovered a new way by which DNA repairs itself, a process that is critical to the protection of the genome, and integral to prevention of ...
Jun 10, 2009 |
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Nanotubes sniff out cancer agents in living cells
MIT engineers have developed carbon nanotubes into sensors for cancer drugs and other DNA-damaging agents inside living cells.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Dec 14, 2008 |
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Chemists use 'green chemistry' to produce amines, chemical compounds used widely in industry
Chemists at UC Riverside have discovered an inexpensive, clean and quick way to prepare amines – nitrogen-containing organic compounds derived from ammonia that have wide industrial applications such as solvents, additives, ...
Jun 12, 2008 |
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Sexual function affected by stem cell transplant according to long-term study
A long-term study found that a type of stem cell transplant used for patients with life-threatening diseases, such as leukemia and lymphoma, results in decreased sexual function and activity for recipients. Further, males ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Sep 18, 2007 |
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Heal thyself: Systems biology model reveals how cells avoid becoming cancerous
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego and three other institutions have described for the first time a web of inter-related responses that cells use to avoid becoming diseased or cancerous after being exposed ...
May 18, 2006 |
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