News tagged with tumour cells

New key mechanism in cell division discovered

Researchers from the Bellvitge Biomedical Research Institute (IDIBELL) have identified the mechanism by which protein Zds1 regulates a key function in mitosis, the process that occurs immediately before cell division. The ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created May 18, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Scientists unlock key to cancer cell death mystery

An international team of scientists has announced a new advance in the ability to target and destroy certain cancer cells.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Mar 26, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (10) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Cell movement patterns

(PhysOrg.com) -- Whereas a cut knee often reduces children to tears, adults are more likely to be distressed by the fear of cancer. In both cases, that is wound healing and the growth and spread of tumours, ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Mar 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Record reaction cascade yields cancer drug candidate

(PhysOrg.com) -- New active substances can be produced quickly and efficiently with the help of reaction cascades. Once set in motion, these processes lead to the desired end product via a series of intermediate steps which ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Dec 26, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers describe a new genetic program that converts static cells into mobile invasive cells

Researchers at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine (IRB Barcelona) have identified the gene GATA 6 as responsible for epithelial cells -which group together and are static- losing adhesion and moving ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Dec 15, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

'Trojan Horse' particle sneaks chemotherapy in to kill ovarian cancer cells

A common chemotherapy drug has been successfully delivered to cancer cells inside tiny microparticles using a method inspired by our knowledge of how the human immune system works. The drug, delivered in this way, reduced ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Sep 12, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Scientists uncover role for cell scaffold in tumor formation

A group of scientists at the Instituto Gulbenkian de Ciencia, in Portugal, have uncovered a surprising link between the cell's skeleton and organ size. The team, led by Florence Janody, show in the journal ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Jun 06, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

The sweet mysteries of the nervous system

Researchers in Germany have produced an antibody that allows them to distinguish the numerous types of stem cells in the nervous system better than before.

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created May 10, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer prognosis goes high tech

Cancer researchers at the University of Calgary are investigating a new tool to use for the prognosis of breast cancer in patients. This new digital tool will help give patients a more accurate assessment ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 18, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Liquid biomaterials take stem cell therapy to new level

At present, cartilage implants created using stem cells can only be constructed as a solid shape, acting as an interim measure before the almost inevitable need for total joint replacement.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 17, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1

Suggesting genes' friends, Facebook-style

Scientists at the European Molecular Biology Laboratory (EMBL) and the German Cancer Research Centre (DKFZ), both in Heidelberg, Germany, have developed a new method that uncovers the combined effects of genes. ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Mar 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

BNCT, a new-generation radiation treatment, is effective in advanced head and neck cancer

Biologically targeted BNCT treatment is based on producing radiation inside a tumour using boron-10 and thermal neutrons. Boron-10 is introduced into cancer cells with the help of a special carrier substance (phenylalanine), ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 04, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

More tests needed for oesophageal cancer patients

A University of Adelaide medical researcher says current treatment for people diagnosed with oesophageal cancer could be improved with additional pathology tests.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 01, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Gene fuelled transporter causes breast cancer cells to self-destruct

Scientists at Queen's University Belfast have shown that they can deliver a gene directly into breast cancer cells causing them to self-destruct, using an innovative, miniscule gene transport system, according to research ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Feb 28, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Natural (born) killers: What do they really do?

Our immune systems contain three fundamentally different types of cell: B-cells, T-cells and the mysteriously named Natural Killer cells (NK cells), which are known to be involved in killing tumour cells and other infected ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Feb 22, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Tumor

A tumor or tumour is the name for a swelling or lesion formed by an abnormal growth of cells (termed neoplastic). Tumor is not synonymous with cancer. A tumor can be benign, pre-malignant or malignant, whereas cancer is by definition malignant.

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