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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

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A guide star lets scientists see deep into human tissue

Astronomers have a neat trick they sometimes use to compensate for the turbulence of the atmosphere that blurs images made by ground-based telescopes. They create an artificial star called a guide star and ...

Physics / Optics & Photonics

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Tick saliva could hold cancer cure: Brazilian scientists

It may be one of nature's repulsive little blood-sucking parasites, but the humble tick could yield a future cure for cancers of the skin, liver and pancreas, Brazilian researchers have discovered.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Strategy discovered to activate genes that suppress tumors and inhibit cancer

(Medical Xpress) -- A team of scientists has developed a promising new strategy for "reactivating" genes that cause cancer tumors to shrink and die. The researchers hope that their discovery will aid in the ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Boron-nitride nanotubes show potential in cancer treatment

A new study has shown that adding boron-nitride nanotubes to the surface of cancer cells can double the effectiveness of Irreversible Electroporation, a minimally invasive treatment for soft tissue tumors in the liver, lung, ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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In lab, Pannexin1 restores tight binding of cells that is lost in cancer

First there is the tumor and then there's the horrible question of whether the cancerous cells will spread. Scientists increasingly believe that the structural properties of the tumor itself, such as how tightly ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Inhaled nanoparticles deliver potent anticancer cocktail to lung tumors and block resistance

(PhysOrg.com) -- An ideal treatment for lung cancer would be one that could be inhaled deep into lung tissue where it would deliver tumor-killing agents that would then largely stay in the lungs, avoiding the toxicities that ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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New discovery may eliminate potentially lethal side effect of stem cell therapy

Like fine chefs, scientists are seemingly approaching a day when they will be able to make nearly any type of tissue from human embryonic stem cells. You need nerves or pancreas, bone or skin? With the right combination of ...

Biology / Biotechnology

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Flares on the move: Nanoparticle test kit shows how nanoparticles of different size disperse in tumor tissue

(PhysOrg.com) -- Nanoparticles play a significant role in the development of future diagnostic and therapeutic techniques for tumors, for example as transporters for drugs or as contrast agents. Absorption ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Nanoparticle thermotherapy as a chemotherapy alternative

Using hyperthermia, Virginia Tech engineering researchers and a colleague from India unveiled a new method to target and destroy cancerous cells. The research was presented at the 63rd annual meeting of the American Physical ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

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Research carries cautionary warning for future stem cell applications

Research work carried out at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem arouses a cautionary warning in the growing field of the development of stem cells as a means for future treatment of patients through replacement ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

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New studies explain how cancer cells 'eat us alive'

Four key studies now propose a new theory about how cancer cells grow and survive, allowing researchers to design better diagnostics and therapies to target high-risk cancer patients. These studies were conducted by a large ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Researchers link protein to tumor growth

(PhysOrg.com) -- Johns Hopkins researchers working on mice have discovered a protein that is a major target of a gene that, when mutated in humans, causes tumors to develop on nerves associated with hearing, as well as cataracts ...

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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Newly discovered mechanism controls levels and efficacy of a marijuana-like substance in the brain

A newly discovered molecular mechanism helps control the amount and effectiveness of a substance that mimics an active ingredient in marijuana, but that is produced by the body's own nerve cells.

Medicine & Health / Neuroscience

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MicroRNA network study implicates rewired interactions in cancer

Genes interact in complex networks that govern cellular processes, much like people connect a social network through relationships. Researchers are now discovering how biological networks change and are rewired in cancer. ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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