News tagged with types of cancer

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DNA nanorobot triggers targeted therapeutic responses

Researchers at the Wyss Institute for Biologically Inspired Engineering at Harvard University have developed a robotic device made from DNA that could potentially seek out specific cell targets within a complex ...

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Feb 16, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (9) | comments 8 | with audio podcast

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

Biologically targeted nanoparticles may boost radiation therapy effects

(PhysOrg.com) -- Making a tumor more sensitive to radiotherapy is a primary goal of combining chemo and radiation therapy to treat many types of cancer, but with the chemotherapy drugs come unwanted side effects.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Oct 27, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Tissue structure delays cancer development

Cancer growth normally follows a lengthy period of development. Over the course of time, genetic mutations often accumulate in cells, leading first to pre-cancerous conditions and ultimately to tumour growth. Using a mathematical ...

Other Sciences / Mathematics

created Dec 19, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

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 ...

Biology / Cell & Microbiology

created Aug 15, 2011 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Toxic aldehydes detected in reheated oil

Researchers from the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU, Spain) have been the first to discover the presence of certain aldehydes in food, which are believed to be related to some neurodegenerative ...

Chemistry / Other

created Feb 22, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1

Get smart about science: Sorting through the studies about caffeine and other choices

Coffee, elixir of the gods. Studies say drinking it can lower your risk of developing type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, Alzheimer's disease and mouth cancer. It can prevent cavities. It can make you happier. It can kill ...

Medicine & Health / Health

created Feb 20, 2009 | popularity 4 / 5 (8) | comments 0

Gold nanoparticles bring scientists closer to a treatment for cancer

Scientists at the University of Southampton have developed smart nanomaterials, which can disrupt the blood supply to cancerous tumours.

Nanotechnology / Bio & Medicine

created Jul 07, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0

Study: 50-year-old with diabetes dies 6 yrs sooner

A 50-year-old with diabetes dies six years sooner than someone without the disease, and not just from a heart attack or a stroke, new research suggests.

Medicine & Health / Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

created Mar 02, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0

Annual report to the nation focuses on brain tumors

Lung cancer death rates in women have fallen for the first time in four decades, according to an annual report on the status of cancer published online March 31 in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. The drop c ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 31, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer death rate gap widens based on education

(AP) -- The gap in cancer death rates between college graduates and those who only went to high school is widening, the American Cancer Society reported Friday.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Jun 17, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Blood type study sheds light on biology of pancreatic cancer

(PhysOrg.com) -- Offering a novel clue about the basic biology of pancreatic cancer, researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute have confirmed a decades-old discovery of a link between blood type and the ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 11, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Human papillomavirus genotype distribution in New Mexico cervical cancers

DNA from human papilloma virus type 16 (HPV16) and HPV type 18 (HPV18) were found in the majority of invasive cervical cancers in New Mexico in the 1980s and 1990s, according to a population-based study published in the March ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 24, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers identify genetic markers for aggressive head and neck cancer

Scientists at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University have identified genetic markers that signal poor outcomes for patients with head and neck cancer. These findings could one day lead to a genetic test ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Researchers One Step Closer to Understanding Underlying Causes of Cancer and Diabetes

(PhysOrg.com) -- A Saskatchewan Cancer Agency researcher and her team have discovered a new link between the "on" and "off" switches that control cell growth and insulin responses in the body. This work could have implications ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Mar 10, 2010 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0