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1930s drug slows tumor growth

Drugs sometimes have beneficial side effects. A glaucoma treatment causes luscious eyelashes. A blood pressure drug also aids those with a rare genetic disease. The newest surprise discovered by researchers at the Johns ...

Medicine & Health / Medications

created Nov 06, 2009 | popularity 4.7 / 5 (10) | comments 1

Insulin boost restores muscle growth in elderly

When most people think of insulin, they think of diabetes — a disease that arises when, for one reason or another, insulin can't do the critical job of helping the body process sugar. But the hormone has another, less well-known ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

created Sep 25, 2009 | popularity 5 / 5 (8) | comments 1

Team designs a bandage that spurs, guides blood vessel growth

Researchers have developed a bandage that stimulates and directs blood vessel growth on the surface of a wound. The bandage, called a "microvascular stamp," contains living cells that deliver growth factors ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

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Laying bare the not-so-sweet tale of a sugar and its role in the spread of cancer

Cancer has a mighty big bag of tricks that it uses to evade the body's natural defense mechanisms and proliferate. Among those tricks is one that allows tumor cells to turn the intricate and extensive system of lymphatic ...

Chemistry / Biochemistry

created Apr 25, 2011 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Protein targeted to stop melanoma tumor growth

Halting the growth of melanoma tumors by targeting the MIC-1 protein that promotes blood vessel development in tumors may lead to better treatment of this invasive and deadly cancer, according to Penn State College of Medicine ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Dec 09, 2010 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Medical imaging breakthrough uses light and sound to see microscopic details inside our bodies

See it for yourself: a new breakthrough in imaging technology using a combination of light and sound will allow health care providers to see microscopic details inside the body. Access to this level of detail potentially ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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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

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Scientists find gas pedal -- and brake -- for uncontrolled cell growth

Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a new way to regulate the uncontrolled growth of blood vessels, a major problem in a broad range of diseases and conditions.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Ingredient in red wine may prevent some blinding diseases

found in red wine, grapes, blueberries, peanuts and other plants — stops out-of-control blood vessel growth in the eye, according to vision researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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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 ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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Down's Syndrome Chromosome Yields More Cancer-Blocking Genes

(PhysOrg.com) -- Scientists from Queen Mary, University of London have discovered cancer-blocking activity for genes carried on chromosome 21 - an extra copy of which is carried by people with Down’s syndrome.

Medicine & Health / Genetics

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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

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Stem cells used to model infant birth defect

Hemangiomas -- strawberry-like birthmarks that commonly develop in early infancy - are generally harmless, but up to 10 percent cause tissue distortion or destruction and sometimes obstruction of vision or breathing. Since ...

Medicine & Health / Medical research

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Study finds link between low oxygen levels in body and cancer-aiding protein

What began as research into how diabetics could possibly preserve their eyesight has led to findings that could prolong the vision of children afflicted with retinoblastoma.

Medicine & Health / Cancer

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