News tagged with cancer agent

Sea sponge potential source of new medicines

The sea sponge has provided Flinders University researchers with inspiration for the discovery and development of new therapeutic agents in the treatment of infectious diseases and cancers.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Feb 28, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

PRINTed nanoparticles deliver multiple punches to treat prostate cancer

Using technologies common to the semiconductor industry, a team of investigators at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and Liquidia Technologies has created a polymer nanoparticle that can encapsulate large loads ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 21, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Overcoming cancer drug resistance with nanoparticles

One of the ways in which cancer cells evade anticancer therapy is by producing a protein that pumps drugs out of the cell before these compounds can exert their cell-killing effects. A research team at Northwestern University ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jan 20, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Inhaled nanoparticles deliver potent anticancer cocktail to lung tumors and block resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ideal treatment for lung cancer would be one that could be inhaled deep into lung tissue where it would deliver tumor-killing agents that would then largely stay in the lungs, avoiding the toxicities that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Nov 21, 2011 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Novel nanocrystals with advanced optical properties developed for use as luminescent biomarkers

Upconversion emission materials are ideal for bioimaging due to its effectiveness as contrast agents for the detection of cancer cells, more so when the background emission of non-cancerous tissues can be minimised. These ...

Nanotechnology / Nanomaterials

created Nov 14, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Highly selective catalyst developed for ring-closing olefin metathesis

Research carried out at Boston College, in collaboration with scientists at MIT and the University of Oxford, has led to the development of an efficient and highly selective catalyst for ring-closing olefin metathesis, one ...

Chemistry / Materials Science

created Nov 02, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

First-of-its-kind study creates new tool for targeted cancer drug development

In a technical tour de force, scientists at Fox Chase Cancer Center have cataloged and cross-indexed the actions of 178 candidate drugs capable of blocking the activity of one or more of 300 enzymes, including enzymes critical ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Oct 30, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Nanochannel electroporation: Researchers do precise gene therapy without a needle

For the first time, researchers have found a way to inject a precise dose of a gene therapy agent directly into a single living cell without a needle.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (15) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Light can detect pre-cancerous colon cells

After demonstrating that light accurately detected pre-cancerous cells in the lining of the esophagus, Duke University bioengineers turned their technology to the colon and have achieved similar results in a series of preliminary ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Oct 11, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Researchers identify potential molecular target to prevent growth of cancer cells

Researchers have shown for the first time that the protein fortilin promotes growth of cancer cells by binding to and rendering inert protein p53, a known tumor suppressor. This finding by researchers at the University of ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Sep 16, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Polymeric nanoparticles attack head and neck cancer

Head and neck cancer, the sixth most common cancer in the world, has remained one of the more difficult malignancies to treat, and even when treatment is successful, patients suffer severely from the available therapies. ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 15, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Chemotherapy resistance: A new lead?

UA62784: that is the name of a molecule capable of preventing the proliferation of cancerous cells in vitro, and thus causing their cellular death. Its effects appear to amplify that of other anticancer agents ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 31, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Detection of early gastric cancer using hydro-stomach CT

A research team from South Korea evaluated the difference in diagnostic performance of hydro-stomach computed tomography (CT) to detect early gastric cancer (EGC) between blinded and nonblinded analysis and to assess independent ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 15, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

HP speeds drug discovery research with inkjet technology

HP today announced an innovative drug research application for its inkjet technology that enables pharmaceutical companies to more efficiently develop better drugs through vastly more precise dispensing of dosages.

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Mar 11, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Nanodiamonds take big step toward battling cancer

Chemotherapy drug resistance contributes to treatment failure in more than 90 percent of metastatic cancers. Overcoming this hurdle would significantly improve cancer survival rates.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Mar 09, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast