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Soybeans soaked in warm water naturally release key cancer-fighting substance

Soybeans soaking in warm water could become a new "green" source for production of a cancer-fighting substance now manufactured in a complicated and time-consuming industrial process, scientists are reporting ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Magnetic nanochain detonates chemo barrage inside tumors

Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case Western Reserve University report.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Protein 'jailbreak' helps breast cancer cells live

If the fight against breast cancer were a criminal investigation, then the proteins survivin, HDAC6, CBP, and CRM1 would be among the shadier figures. In that vein, a study to be published in the March 30 ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 28, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Bed-of-nails' breast implant deters cancer cells

One in eight women in the United States will develop breast cancer. Of those, many will undergo surgery to remove the tumor and will require some kind of breast reconstruction afterward, often involving implants. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 23, 2012 | popularity 3.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Finding cancer cells in blood: Chip-based method for the rapid, sensitive isolation of rare cells in blood

(PhysOrg.com) -- Even in the early stages of cancer, individual cancer cells can be found in the blood. Certain subsets of these circulating tumor cells can cause metastasis. In cases of breast cancer, it ...

Chemistry / Analytical Chemistry

created Mar 02, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Researchers discover what cancer cells need to travel

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer cells must prepare for travel before invading new tissues, but new Cornell research has found a possible way to stop these cells from ever hitting the road.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

PolyU scientist finds novel use of African mushroom in cancer research

A young scientist from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Food Safety and Technology Research Centre (FSTRC) has successfully prepared highly stable selenium nanoparticles by using the polysaccharide-protein ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 07, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jan 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Novel use for African mushroom found in cancer research

A young scientist from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (PolyU)'s Food Safety and Technology Research Centre (FSTRC) has successfully prepared highly stable selenium nanoparticles by using the polysaccharide-protein ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Dec 21, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Researchers use light to measure cancer cells' response to treatment

Many cancer therapies target specific proteins that proliferate on the outside of some cancer cells, but the therapies are imperfect and the cancer does not always respond. Since it is beneficial for doctors to know as soon ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

created Dec 20, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Molecules on branched-polymer surfaces can capture rare tumor cells in blood

The removal of rare tumor cells circulating in the blood might be possible with the use of biomolecules bound to dendrimers, highly branched synthetic polymers, which could efficiently sift and capture the diseased cells, ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Nov 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemists cram two million nanorods into single cancer cell

(PhysOrg.com) -- Rice University chemists have found a way to load more than 2 million tiny gold particles called nanorods into a single cancer cell. The breakthrough could speed development of cancer treatments ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 16, 2011 | popularity 4.4 / 5 (10) | comments 5 | with audio podcast

A new mechanism inhibiting the spread and growth of cancer found in motile cells

A revolutionary discovery regarding motile cancer cells made by research scientists at VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland and the University of Turku is challenging previous conceptions. The results have been published ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 21, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cell survival protein research reveals surprise structure

Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have found a structural surprise in a type of protein that encourages cell survival, raising interesting questions about how the proteins function to influence ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Oct 14, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0