An experimental drug that attacks brain tumor tissue by crippling the cells' energy source called the mitochondria has passed early tests in animal models and human tissue cultures, say Houston Methodist scientists.
Biochemistry
Mar 24, 2015
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Despite improvements in the past few decades with surgery, chemotherapy and radiation therapy, a predictably curative treatment for glioma does not yet exist. New insights into specific gene mutations that arise in this often ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 4, 2015
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Cancerous brain tumors are notorious for growing back despite surgical attempts to remove them—and for leading to a dire prognosis for patients. But scientists are developing a new way to try to root out malignant cells ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 3, 2014
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(Phys.org) —UC San Francisco researchers have identified cells' unique features within the developing human brain, using the latest technologies for analyzing gene activity in individual cells, and have demonstrated that ...
Biotechnology
Aug 7, 2014
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Working together, Johns Hopkins biomedical engineers and neurosurgeons report that they have created tiny, biodegradable "nanoparticles" able to carry DNA to brain cancer cells in mice.
Bio & Medicine
Apr 29, 2014
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One factor that makes glioblastoma cancers so difficult to treat is that malignant cells from the tumors spread throughout the brain by following nerve fibers and blood vessels to invade new locations. Now, researchers have ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 16, 2014
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With a nod to 3rd century Chinese woodblock printing and children's rubber stamp toys, researchers in Houston have developed a way to print living cells onto any surface, in virtually any shape. Unlike recent, similar work ...
Engineering
Feb 10, 2014
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Great science "happens" when the right people talk to each other.
Bio & Medicine
Feb 6, 2014
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Researchers have successfully isolated and sequenced the entire messenger RNA – the "genetic photocopies" – contained in the nucleus of a single brain cell. This research, published in the journal Proceedings of the National ...
Cell & Microbiology
Dec 23, 2013
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Researchers at UT Southwestern Medical Center have identified a cellular switch that potentially can be turned off and on to slow down, and eventually inhibit the growth of the most commonly diagnosed and aggressive malignant ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 20, 2013
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