News tagged with tumor blood
Blood test to spot cancer gets big boost from J&J
(AP) -- A blood test so sensitive that it can spot a single cancer cell lurking among a billion healthy ones is moving one step closer to being available at your doctor's office.
Jan 03, 2011 |
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Nano-Scale Drug Delivery For Chemotherapy
(PhysOrg.com) -- Going smaller could bring better results, especially when it comes to cancer-fighting drugs.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 31, 2009 |
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Radioactive Gold Nanoparticles Destroy Prostate Tumors, Leaving Healthy Tissue Untouched
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the promises of nanoparticles as delivery agents for cancer therapeutics is that they will attack tumors while sparing healthy tissue from the damage normally associated with today's anticancer therapies. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 21, 2010 |
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Researchers develop safer way to make induced pluripotent stem cells
Researchers at Johns Hopkins have found a better way to create induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells -- adult cells reprogrammed with the properties of embryonic stem cells -- from a small blood sample. This new method, described ...
Feb 01, 2011 |
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Researchers seek to put the squeeze on cancer
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cancer researchers have been studying angiogenesis — the growth of new blood vessels — since the early 1970s, when Judah Folkman first theorized that tumors could be destroyed by cutting off ...
Jun 15, 2010 |
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Magnetic nanochain detonates chemo barrage inside tumors
Medicine-toting nanochains slip into tumors and explode a chemotherapy drug into hard-to-reach cores of cancer, engineers and scientists at Case Western Reserve University report.
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Apr 18, 2012 |
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Cancer drug effectiveness substantially advanced
Researchers have shown that a peptide (a chain of amino acids) called iRGD helps co-administered drugs penetrate deeply into tumor tissue. The peptide has been shown to substantially increase treatment efficacy against human ...
Apr 08, 2010 |
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Morphine blocks tumor growth
Current research suggests that taking morphine can block new blood vessel and tumor growth. The related report by Koodie et al, "Morphine suppresses tumor angiogenesis through a HIF1α/p38MAPK pathway," appears in the ...
Jul 28, 2010 |
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Gold Nanoparticles Delivery Platinum Warheads to Tumors
(PhysOrg.com) -- Cisplatin is one of the most powerful and effective drugs for treating a wide variety of cancers, but serious side effects ultimately limit the drug's use and effectiveness. Now, however, researchers have ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 29, 2009 |
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Researchers use 'nano-Velcro' technology to improve capture of circulating cancer cells
(PhysOrg.com) -- Circulating tumor cells, which play a crucial role in cancer metastasis, have been known to science for more than 100 years, and researchers have long endeavored to track and capture them. ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Mar 07, 2011 |
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New 'nano-drug' hits brain-tumor target found in 2001
Nine years ago, scientists at Cedars-Sinai's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute detected a subtle shift occurring in the molecular makeup of the most aggressive type of brain tumors, glioblastoma multiforme. With further ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Nov 05, 2010 |
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Scientists combine tumor-targeting peptides and nanoparticles to destroy glioblastoma
Glioblastoma is one of the most aggressive forms of brain cancer. Rather than presenting as a well-defined tumor, glioblastoma will often infiltrate the surrounding brain tissue, making it extremely difficult to treat surgically ...
Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine
Oct 03, 2011 |
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Researchers uncover novel genetic pathway responsible for triggering vascular growth
Most solid cancers can't grow beyond a limited size without an adequate blood supply and supporting vascular network. Because of this, cancer researchers have sought to understand how a tumor's vascular network develops—and, ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Apr 04, 2010 |
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Researchers find potential therapeutic target across a range of cancer types
Researchers from Mount Sinai School of Medicine, in collaboration with investigators of the National Institute of Health and Medical Research (INSERM) of France led by Nicolae Ghinea, PhD, have found a common link among several ...
Oct 20, 2010 |
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UCLA team uncovers mechanism behind organ transplant rejection
UCLA researchers have pinpointed the culprit behind chronic rejection of heart, lung and kidney transplants. Published in the Nov. 23 edition of Science Signaling, their findings suggest new therapeutic approa ...
Medicine & Health / Medical research
Nov 18, 2010 |
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