News tagged with muscle cancers
Impaired activity of the protein MTOR a strain on the heart
A team of researchers, led by Gianluigi Condorelli, at the University of California San Diego, La Jolla, has generated data in mice that suggest that drugs that inhibit the protein MTOR, which are used to treat several forms ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Jul 19, 2010 |
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The healing effects of forests
"Many people," says Dr. Eeva Karjalainen, of the Finnish Forest Research Institute, Metla, "feel relaxed and good when they are out in nature. But not many of us know that there is also scientific evidence about the healing ...
Jul 23, 2010 |
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With muscle-building treatment, mice live longer even as tumors grow
In the vast majority of patients with advanced cancer, their muscles will gradually waste away for reasons that have never been well understood. Now, researchers reporting in the August 20 issue of Cell, have found some n ...
Aug 19, 2010 |
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Stem cell breakthrough: Monitoring the on switch that turns stem cells into muscle
In a genetic engineering breakthrough that could help everyone from bed-ridden patients to elite athletes, a team of American researchers—including 2007 Nobel Prize winner Mario R. Capecchi—have created a "switch" that allows ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Mar 30, 2009 |
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Anti-psychotic drugs could help fight cancer
The observation that people taking medication for schizophrenia have lower cancer rates than other people has prompted new research revealing that anti-psychotic drugs could help treat some major cancers.
Aug 12, 2009 |
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Cells' grouping tactic points to new cancer treatments
The study, which used embryonic cells, points to a new way of treating cancer where therapy is targeted at the process of cancer cells grouping together. The aim is to stop cancer cells from spreading and ...
Jul 19, 2010 |
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Unusual protein modification involved in muscular dystrophy, cancer
With the discovery of a new type of chemical modification on an important muscle protein, a University of Iowa study improves understanding of certain muscular dystrophies and could potentially lead to new treatments for ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Dec 31, 2009 |
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New malaria protein structure upends theory of how cells grow and move
Researchers from the Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have overturned conventional wisdom on how cell movement across all species is controlled, solving the structure of a protein that cuts power to the cell ...
May 30, 2011 |
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New insight into the regulation of stem cells and cancer cells
Scientists at the Gladstone Institutes have gained new insight into the delicate relationship between two proteins that, when out of balance, can prevent the normal development of stem cells in the heart and may also be important ...
Aug 15, 2011 |
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Researchers attack stem cells that cause colon cancer
Many of the colon cancer cells that form tumors can be killed by genetically short-circuiting the cells' ability to absorb a key nutrient, a new study has found. While the findings are encouraging, the test tube study using ...
Apr 28, 2010 |
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Pomegranate extract stimulates uterine contractions
a steroid that can inhibit the absorption of cholesterol in the intestine - as the main constituent of pomegranate seed extract. The research suggests that pomegranate extract could be used as a natural stimulant to encourage ...
Jan 27, 2010 |
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Scientists discover cell of origin for childhood muscle cancer
Researchers at Oregon Health & Science University Doernbecher Children's Hospital have defined the cell of origin for a kind of cancer called sarcoma. In a study published today as the Featured Article in the journal Cancer Ce ...
Feb 15, 2011 |
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