News tagged with cell lymphoma

Study shows how dietary supplement may block cancer cells

Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hospital and Richard J. Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC-James) have discovered how a substance that is produced when eating broccoli ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 29, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (17) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'Junk DNA' drives cancer growth

Researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, the Charite University Medical School and the Max Delbruck Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany, have discovered a new driving force behind cancer growth.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created May 02, 2010 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (12) | comments 4 | with audio podcast

Scientists find new way to attack cancerous cells

Scripps Research Institute scientists have discovered a new way to target and destroy a type of cancerous cell. The findings may lead to the development of new therapies to treat lymphomas, leukemias, and related cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 07, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (11) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New way to kill cancer found using body's immune system

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists have discovered a new way of killing cancer cells in a breakthrough that could eventually lead to new treatments for a range of different cancers.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jul 21, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 6

Humble protein, nanoparticles tag-team to kill cancer cells

(PhysOrg.com) -- A normally benign protein found in the human body appears to be able - when paired with nanoparticles - to zero in on and kill certain cancer cells, without having to also load those particles ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 30, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Microbiologists identify two molecules that kill lymphoma cells in mice

Researchers at the University of Southern California have identified two molecules that may be more effective cancer killers than are currently available on the market.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Nov 06, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 2 | with audio podcast

Vitamin K may protect against developing non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, say researchers

In the first study of vitamin K and Non-Hodgkin lymphoma risk, researchers at the Mayo Clinic campus in Minnesota have found that people who have higher intakes of vitamin K from their diet have a lower risk of developing ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 19, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (4) | comments 1

Protein complex key in avoiding DNA repair mistakes, cancer

As the body creates antibodies to fight invaders, a three-protein DNA repair complex called MRN is crucial for a normal gene-shuffling process to proceed properly, University of Michigan research shows.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 05, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Research puts a 'Fas' to the cause of programmed cell death

Walter and Eliza Hall Institute researchers have put an end to a 10-year debate over which form of a molecular messenger called Fas ligand is responsible for killing cells during programmed cell death (also ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 30, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (3) | comments 0

New cancer treatment gives hope to lymphoma and leukemia patients

Cancer researchers have high hopes for a new therapy for patients with certain types of lymphoma and leukemia.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 26, 2010 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study reveals how fusion protein triggers cancer

What happens when two proteins join together? In this case, they become like a power couple, where the whole is greater than the sum of the parts.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jan 27, 2011 | popularity 4.3 / 5 (3) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Small molecule targets B cell lymphoma

Scientists are one step closer to developing a targeted therapy for lymphoma. New research, published by Cell Press in the April 13th issue of the journal Cancer Cell, identifies a specific small-molecule inhibitor that w ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 12, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

The broken cell 'stopwatch': Discovery could lead to new leukaemia blood test

(PhysOrg.com) -- Cardiff University scientists have pinpointed key changes in the cells of leukaemia patients which could play a crucial role in the earliest stages of the disease.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Jun 17, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

New lymphoma therapy may be more effective with fewer side effects

Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) is a type of aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma that accounts for approximately 40 percent of lymphomas among adults. If left untreated, it is fatal. The existing treatments have a cure ...

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created Nov 03, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Researchers identify DNA mutation that occurs at beginning point of T-cell lymphoma

Researchers at the Keck School of Medicine of the University of Southern California (USC) have identified a key mechanism that causes chromosomes within blood cells to break—an occurrence that marks the first step in the ...

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created Jun 12, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0