Freeing the bonds: 2010 Nobel highlights the carbon future
In the 1960s, American scientists made an exciting discovery: a compound extracted from the bark of the Pacific yew tree destroyed cancer cells in the lab.
Materials Science
Oct 6, 2010
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News tagged with ovarian cancer
Novel electronic biosensing technology could facilitate a new era of personalized medicine
The multi-welled microplate, long a standard tool in biomedical research and diagnostic laboratories, could become a thing of the past thanks to new electronic biosensing technology developed by a team of microelectronics ...
Bio & Medicine
Sep 20, 2010
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Researchers raise concerns over the increasing commercialization of science
The increasing commercialisation of science is restricting access to vital scientific knowledge and delaying the progress of science, claim researchers in the British Medical Journal today.
Other
Sep 17, 2010
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First purification of cancer gene, BRCA2, studied by UNC scientists
Scientists at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill were among co-authors of a study that described the first isolation and purification of the BRCA2 protein which is produced by a gene whose loss greatly increases ...
Cell & Microbiology
Sep 15, 2010
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Magnetic Nanoparticles Remove Ovarian Cancer Cells from the Abdominal Cavity
A major complicating factor in the treatment of ovarian cancer is that malignant cells are often shed into the patient’s abdominal cavity. These cells can then spread to other tissues, seeding new tumors that make effective ...
Bio & Medicine
Jul 18, 2010
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Curcumin nanoparticles 'open up' resistant cancers
Pre-treatment with curcumin, a component of the spice turmeric, makes ovarian cancer cells more vulnerable to chemotherapy and radiotherapy. Researchers writing in BioMed Central's open access Journal of Ovarian Research ...
Bio & Medicine
Apr 28, 2010
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Attacking Cancer Cells with Hydrogel Nanoparticles
(PhysOrg.com) -- One of the difficulties of fighting cancer is that drugs often hit other non-cancerous cells, causing patients to get sick. But what if researchers could sneak cancer-fighting particles into just the cancer ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 15, 2010
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Magnetic nanoparticles show promise for combating human cancer
Scientists at Georgia Tech and the Ovarian Cancer Institute have further developed a potential new treatment against cancer that uses magnetic nanoparticles to attach to cancer cells, removing them from the body. The treatment, ...
Bio & Medicine
Feb 1, 2010
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Nanoparticles for gene therapy improve
(PhysOrg.com) -- About five years ago, Professor Janet Sawicki at the Lankenau Institute in Pennsylvania read an article about nanoparticles developed by MIT's Robert Langer for gene therapy, the insertion of genes into living ...
Bio & Medicine
Nov 6, 2009
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Metals could forge new cancer drug
Drugs made using unusual metals could form an effective treatment against colon and ovarian cancer, including cancerous cells that have developed immunity to other drugs, according to research at the University of Warwick ...
Biochemistry
Oct 19, 2009
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