News tagged with chemotherapy resistance

'Nanobubbles' plus chemotherapy equals single-cell cancer targeting

Using light-harvesting nanoparticles to convert laser energy into "plasmonic nanobubbles," researchers at Rice University, the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Apr 09, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medical students may soon be tested on evolution

What does evolution - a field that often deals with changes over many generations - have to do with preventing and treating disease in our lifetime? A lot, some scientists say. If recent recommendations are ...

Medicine & Health / Other

created Jan 26, 2010 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0

Scientists find how cancer cells become resistant to chemotherapy

A research team at the Scripps Research Institute has obtained the first glimpse of a protein that keeps certain substances, including many drugs, out of cells. The protein, called P-glycoprotein or P-gp for short, is one ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 26, 2009 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (4) | comments 0