News tagged with cancer tumours

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Reprogramming immune system cells to produce natural killer cells for cancer

A team of researchers has developed a method to produce cells that kill tumour cells in the lab and prevent tumours forming in mouse models of cancer. Although the current work is in cells and mouse, if the research transfers ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 10, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (16) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Unlocking the body's defenses against cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a way of allowing healthy cells to take charge of cancerous cells and stop them developing into tumours in what could provide a new approach to treating early-stage cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Aug 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (13) | comments 5

Newly discovered gene plays vital role in cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Gene p53 protects against cancer and is usually described as the most important gene in cancer research. However, scientists at the Swedish medical university Karolinska Institutet have now shown that a previously ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 27, 2009 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Scientists unlock key to cancer cell death mystery

An international team of scientists has announced a new advance in the ability to target and destroy certain cancer cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Trojan Horse' particle sneaks chemotherapy in to kill ovarian cancer cells

A common chemotherapy drug has been successfully delivered to cancer cells inside tiny microparticles using a method inspired by our knowledge of how the human immune system works. The drug, delivered in this way, reduced ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Harmless soil-dwelling bacteria successfully kill cancer

A bacterial strain that specifically targets tumours could soon be used as a vehicle to deliver drugs in frontline cancer therapy. The strain is expected to be tested in cancer patients in 2013 says a scientist ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Sep 05, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (23) | comments 7 | with audio podcast

Cancer cells brought under control by scientists

Scientists at The University of Nottingham have brought cancer cells back under normal control -- by reactivating their cancer suppressor genes. The discovery could form a powerful new technology platform ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 13, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Luminous jellyfish cells help with early cancer diagnosis

(PhysOrg.com) -- It sounds like an idea plucked from the realms of science fiction writing. But in this case, there is nothing fictional about it. Scientists in Yorkshire have developed a process that uses ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Portable breast scanner allows cancer detection in the blink of an eye

(PhysOrg.com) -- Professor Zhipeng Wu has invented a portable scanner based on radio frequency technology, which is able to show in a second the presence of tumours – malignant and benign – in the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Oct 27, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Curry cooking ingredient could provide recipe for fight against cancer

Scientists at the University of Leicester, funded by Hope Against Cancer, are pioneering the use of a common curry cooking ingredient to target cancer cells.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Sep 28, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (14) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

MicroRNA to combat cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Researchers from the Queensland Institute of Medical Research, the Garvan Institute of Medical Research and the University of California-San Francisco have found a new way to kill cancer cells, opening the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Potential cancer drug derived from Australian rainforest

A potential cancer drug developed from an Australian rainforest plant is set to progress to human trials after fighting off inoperable tumours in pets, the company behind it said Monday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (6) | comments 1

Substance in breast milk kills cancer cells

A substance found in breast milk can kill cancer cells, reveal studies carried out by researchers at Lund University and the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Graduate student finds a 'start/stop switch' for retroviruses

A University of British Columbia doctoral candidate has discovered a previously unknown mechanism for silencing retroviruses, segments of genetic material that can lead to fatal mutations in a cell's DNA.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Apr 08, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (14) | comments 3 | with audio podcast

Sorting the drivers from the passengers in the cancer genome

A new study of mutations in cancer genomes shows how researchers can begin to distinguish the 'driver' mutations that push cells towards cancer from the 'passenger' mutations that are a by-product of cancer cell development. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast