News tagged with cell lymphoma

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

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

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

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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

'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

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

Jarid2 may break the Polycomb silence

Historically, fly and human Polycomb proteins were considered textbook exemplars of transcriptional repressors, or proteins that silence the process by which DNA gives rise to new proteins. Now, work by a ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Apr 30, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Worm studies shed light on human cancers

(PhysOrg.com) -- Research in the worm is shedding light on a protein associated with a number of different human cancers, and may point to a highly targeted way to treat them.

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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Researchers predict age of T cells to improve cancer treatment

Manipulation of cells by a new microfluidic device may help clinicians improve a promising cancer therapy that harnesses the body's own immune cells to fight such diseases as metastatic melanoma, non-Hodgkin's ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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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

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Control of cancer cell pathways key to halting disease spread, study shows

Oncogenes are like friends who've gone off the deep end. Normally steady, reliable members of the cellular workforce, these genes become very bad influences when mutated or expressed at high levels -- urging a cell to divide ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 14, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

A new target for lymphoma therapy

Researchers at the Program in Cellular and Molecular Medicine and the Immune Disease Institute at Children's Hospital Boston (PCMM/IDI) have found a link between a common mutation that can lead to cancer and ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers restore some function to cells from cystic fibrosis patients

In an encouraging new development, a team led by Scripps Research Institute scientists has restored partial function to lung cells collected from patients with cystic fibrosis. While there is still much work to be done before ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 06, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

New cancer target for non-Hodgkin's lymphoma

Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College have discovered a molecular mechanism that may prove to be a powerful target for the treatment of non-Hodgkin's lymphoma, a type of cancer that affects lymphocytes, ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Nov 22, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | 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

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