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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

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

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'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

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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.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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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

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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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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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

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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

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Scientists shut down pump action to break breast cancer cells' drug resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- Breast cancer cells that mutate to resist drug treatment survive by establishing tiny pumps on their surface that reject the drugs as they penetrate the cell membrane – making the cancer insensitive ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Novel compound selectively kills cancer cells

A cancer cell may seem out of control, growing wildly and breaking all the rules of orderly cell life and death. But amid the seeming chaos there is a balance between a cancer cell's revved-up metabolism and skyrocketing ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Jul 13, 2011 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

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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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

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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

Study finds protein critical to breast cancer cell proliferation, migration

Researchers have found that a protein linked to cell division and migration and tied to increased cell proliferation in ovarian tumors is also present at high levels in breast cancer specimens and cell lines. The protein, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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The 30 Years War: AIDS, a tale of tragedy and hope

On June 5 1981, American epidemiologists reported a baffling event: five young gay men in Los Angeles, all previously healthy, had fallen ill with pneumonia. Two had died.

Medicine & Health / HIV & AIDS

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