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 ...
May 21, 2012 |
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Scientists turn skin into blood (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- In an important breakthrough, scientists at McMaster University have discovered how to make human blood from adult human skin.
Nov 07, 2010 |
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New Hope for Deadly Childhood Bone Cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers at Huntsman Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah have shed new light on Ewing’s sarcoma, an often deadly bone cancer that typically afflicts children and young adults. Their research ...
Aug 31, 2009 |
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HIV patients with lymphoma given new hope
(PhysOrg.com) -- The Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) is widely treated using highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART), which patients must continue throughout their lives. Now a new study suggests the patients’ own ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jun 18, 2010 |
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Scientists use virus to kill cancer cells while leaving normal cells intact
(PhysOrg.com) -- A virus that in nature infects only rabbits could become a cancer-fighting tool for humans. Myxoma virus kills cancerous blood-precursor cells in human bone marrow while sparing normal blood stem cells, a ...
Dec 03, 2009 |
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'Good' cells can go 'bad' in a 'bad neighborhood'
(PhysOrg.com) -- The general theory of cancer development holds that malignancies occur because of the presence of certain genetic elements within the affected cells.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 22, 2010 |
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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.
Apr 15, 2011 |
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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 ...
Aug 25, 2011 |
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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 ...
Jul 15, 2011 |
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Nanoparticle-decorated cells power novel approach to cancer therapy
Clinical trials using patients' own immune cells to target tumors have yielded promising results. However, this approach usually works only when patients also receive large doses of drugs designed to help immune cells multiply ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Sep 17, 2010 |
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Novel nanoparticles prevent radiation damage (w/ Video)
Tiny, melanin-covered nanoparticles may protect bone marrow from the harmful effects of radiation therapy, according to scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University who successfully tested the strategy ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 26, 2010 |
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Researchers develop more reliable, less expensive synthetic graft material
With a failure rate as high as 50 percent, bone tissue grafts pose a significant obstacle to orthopedic surgeons attempting to repair complex fractures or large areas of bone loss, such as those often caused by trauma and ...
Oct 22, 2010 |
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Research shows a promising new method to reduce graft-versus-host-disease after bone marrow transplantation
(PhysOrg.com) -- University of Michigan researchers have discovered a new method to prevent the immune-system attacks that often occur following bone marrow transplants.
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Oct 13, 2010 |
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Novel cancer drug has potential, study reports
(PhysOrg.com) -- Monthly injections of the drug in breast cancer patients whose disease had spread to the bone helped reduce pain and prevent complications with less toxicity than current treatments.
Nov 12, 2010 |
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Study finds way to protect healthy cells from radiation damage
Researchers at the University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine and the National Cancer Institute (NCI), part of the National Institutes of Health, may be hot on the heels of a Holy Grail of cancer therapy: They have found ...
Oct 21, 2009 |
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