News tagged with breast cancer research
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Researchers announce GenomeSpace environment to connect genomic tools
Researchers from the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard have announced that GenomeSpace, a software environment that seamlessly connects genomic analysis tools, is now available to the scientific community. During her keynote ...
Apr 25, 2012 |
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Nanotube therapy takes aim at breast cancer stem cells
Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center researchers have again proven that injecting multiwalled carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs) into tumors and heating them with a quick, 30-second laser treatment can kill them.
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Feb 09, 2012 |
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Researchers discover critical rotational motion in cells
In a study that holds major implications for breast cancer research as well as basic cell biology, scientists with the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) have discovered a rotational motion ...
Jan 26, 2012 |
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Scientists discover a way to kill off tumors in cancer treatment breakthrough
Scientists from the School of Pharmacy at Queen's University Belfast and Almac Discovery Ltd have developed a new treatment for cancer which rather than attacking tumours directly, prevents the growth of new blood vessels ...
Apr 05, 2011 |
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Protein related to aging holds breast cancer clues
The most common type of breast cancer in older women -- estrogen and progesterone receptor (ER/PR) positive breast cancer -- has been linked to a protein that fends off aging-related cellular damage.
Jan 27, 2011 |
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Researchers find new target for breast cancer treatments
(PhysOrg.com) -- A study by Tulane University School of Medicine and Vanderbilt University School of Medicine suggests a new target in the fight against breast cancer - a cell receptor and associated protein molecule that ...
Jan 20, 2011 |
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Peptide delivers 1-2 punch to breast cancer in pre-clinical study
Researchers at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center (WFUBMC) have discovered what may become a new weapon in the fight against breast cancer. For the first time, a peptide found in blood and tissue has been shown ...
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Scientists discover powerful biomarker panel for the early detection of breast cancer
In the war on cancer, perhaps there is nothing more powerful in a physician's arsenal than early detection. Despite recent advances in early detection and treatment, breast cancer remains a common and significant ...
Dec 16, 2010 |
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Breast inflammation is key to cancer growth, researchers say
It took 12 years and a creation of a highly sophisticated transgenic mouse, but researchers at Kimmel Cancer Center at Jefferson have finally proven a long suspected theory: Inflammation in the breast is key to the development ...
Dec 15, 2010 |
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Finger length predicts prostate cancer risk: study
Men whose index fingers are longer than their ring, or fourth, fingers run a significantly lower risk of prostate cancer, according to a study published Wednesday in the British Journal of Cancer.
Dec 01, 2010 |
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The most aggressive forms of breast cancer elude cellular control mechanisms in order to expand
Spanish scientists at IRB Barcelona have provided new data on how certain types of aggressive breast cancer bypass tumor suppression mechanisms.
Nov 24, 2010 |
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Duke cancer researcher quits as papers questioned
A Duke University cancer scientist resigned Friday amid concerns about his research that arose after the university started probing whether he'd lied on a grant application.
Nov 20, 2010 |
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Image-guided breast cancer therapy enabled by nanodrug
By combining an iron oxide nanoparticle, a tumor-targeting peptide, and a therapeutic nucleic acid into one construct, a team of investigators from the Massachusetts General Hospital and Harvard Medical School have created ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 28, 2010 |
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Detecting breast cancer recurrence
Connie Krabbe understands the fear and foreboding breast cancer survivors feel when visiting their physicians for post-treatment check-ups. Two of her four sisters died of metastatic cancer related to breast ...
Oct 20, 2010 |
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Genetic test to predict early menopause
The first research from the Breakthrough Generations Study could lead to a test to predict a woman's reproductive lifespan.
Oct 18, 2010 |
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