News tagged with bone cancers

Strategy discovered to activate genes that suppress tumors and inhibit cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Fukushima radioactive water 'leaked to Pacific

Highly radioactive waste water from the crippled Fukushima nuclear plant has leaked to the Pacific, its operator said Tuesday, promising to prevent similar incidents.

Space & Earth / Environment

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Fresh radioactive runoff at Japan plant

A fresh leak of radioactive water into the open ocean has been discovered at Japan's crippled Fukushima nuclear complex, its operator said Monday as cleanup efforts continued.

Space & Earth / Environment

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New sensors streamline detection of estrogenic compounds

Researchers have engineered new sensors that fluoresce in the presence of compounds that interact with estrogen receptors in human cells. The sensors detect natural or human-made substances that alter estrogenic signaling ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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New technique boosts efficiency of blood cell production from human stem cells

Scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have developed an improved technique for generating large numbers of blood cells from a patient's own cells. The new technique will be immediately useful ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Ruminant headgear: A mystery awaiting unraveling

(PhysOrg.com) -- Emerging from the heads of most cud-chewing mammals, headgear inspire an almost mystical and certainly majestic aura. But, scientists say, we know shockingly little about them.

Biology / Evolution

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Cancer-stricken British girl's 'Bucket List' is Internet hit

A cancer-stricken British teenage girl said Thursday she had been overwhelmed by messages of support from around the world after writing an online "Bucket List" of things she wanted to do before dying.

Medicine & Health / Other

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Bayer flags strong results of prostate cancer drug

German chemical and pharmaceutical group Bayer said Monday that its Alpharadin treatment for prostate cancer has shown positive results in advanced trials.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Experts: Store blood cells from Japan nuke workers

Workers at Japan's troubled nuclear plant should store blood cells now in case they need them later as treatment for radiation overdose, some Japanese experts suggest.

Medicine & Health / Health

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Mouse cancer genome unveils genetic errors in human cancers

Scientists who pioneered sequencing the genomes of cancer patients to find novel genetic changes at the root of the disease now have turned their attention to a laboratory workhorse -- a mouse.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Prostate cancer spreads to bones by overtaking the home of blood stem cells

Like bad neighbors who decide to go wreck another community, prostate and breast cancer usually recur in the bone, according to a new University of Michigan study.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 23, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Reducing cancer patients' painful treatment

A NASA technology originally developed for plant growth experiments on space shuttle missions has successfully reduced the painful side effects resulting from chemotherapy and radiation treatment in bone marrow ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Breast cancer survivors at higher risk for falls

The combined effects of chemotherapy and endocrine therapy may increase the risk of bone fractures in breast cancer survivors. In a study scheduled for publication in the April issue of the Archives of Physical Medicine an ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Bone drug zoledronic acid may help prevent spread of early lung cancer

A drug that is currently used to help treat bone metastases in patients with lung cancer could also be useful at an earlier stage of treatment, to prevent the cancer from spreading in the first place, Italian researchers ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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New induced stem cells may unmask cancer at earliest stage

By coaxing healthy and diseased human bone marrow to become embryonic-like stem cells, a team of Wisconsin scientists has laid the groundwork for observing the onset of the blood cancer leukemia in the laboratory dish.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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