News tagged with anticancer properties
A 'super sensor' for cancer and CSIs
Like the sensitive seismographs that can pick up tremors of impending earthquakes long before they strike, a similar invention from Tel Aviv University researchers may change the face of molecular biology.
Aug 03, 2009 |
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Fresh Pot of Tea Strikes Anticancer Gold
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the University of Missouri-Columbia report in the Journal of Materials Chemistry that chemicals in tea are the best yet discovered to make consistent, biologically safe gold nanoparticles. More i ...
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Apr 27, 2009 |
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Pacific Ocean natural products isolated from marine mollusks, sponges can reverse multidrug resistance in cancer cells
(Phys.org) -- Many marine natural products show anticancer activity, but some can reverse multidrug resistance in cancer cells. A new investigation by Robert J. Capon of the University of Queensland correlates ...
Apr 12, 2012 |
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Researchers synthesize fungal metabolite and derivatives that inhibit crucial enzymes related to cancers
Nature has provided scientists with an abundant pharmacopeia for fighting diseases and cancer. For example, recent studies have identified several resorcylic acid lactones — compounds derived from mangrove ...
Mar 01, 2012 |
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'Russian doll' polymer vesicles mimic cell structure
Nanomedicine faces two main challenges: controlling the synthesis of extremely small vectors containing one or several active ingredients and releasing these agents in the right place at the right time, in ...
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Jan 31, 2012 |
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Polymer characterization 'tweezers' turn Nobel theory into benchtop tool
Researchers at UC Santa Barbara have developed a new and highly efficient way to characterize the structure of polymers at the nanoscale – effectively designing a routine analytical tool that could be used by industries ...
Oct 19, 2011 |
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Hitting target in cancer fight now easier with new nanoparticle platform
(PhysOrg.com) -- The ability to use nanoparticles to deliver payloads of cancer-fighting drugs to tumors in the body could herald a fundamental change in chemotherapy treatment. But scientists are still at a relatively early ...
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May 04, 2011 |
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What is good for you is bad for infectious bacteria
Plants are able to protect themselves from most bacteria, but some bacteria are able to breach their defences. In research to be published in Science on Friday, scientists have identified the genes used b ...
Mar 03, 2011 |
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Researchers find new role for cancer protein p53
The gene for the protein p53 is the most frequently mutated in human cancer. It encodes a tumor suppressor, and traditionally researchers have assumed that it acts primarily as a regulator of how genes are ...
Mar 02, 2011 |
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Generic drug may improve the effectiveness of cancer nanotherapies
Low doses of an inexpensive, FDA-approved hypertension medication may improve the results of nanotherapeutic approaches to cancer treatment. In a report in the early edition of Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Massac ...
Feb 02, 2011 |
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Scientists synthesize long-sought-after anticancer agent
A team of Yale University scientists has synthesized for the first time a chemical compound called lomaiviticin aglycon, leading to the development of a new class of molecules that appear to target and destroy cancer stem ...
Jan 31, 2011 |
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New function of gene in promoting cancer found
Researchers at Virginia Commonwealth University have discovered that a gene well known for its involvement in tumor cell development, growth and metastasis also protects cancer cells from being destroyed by chemotherapy. ...
Nov 22, 2010 |
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