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New Technique Holds Promise For Better Understanding Of Brain Disorders
Feb 10, 2012
By harnessing quantum dots - tiny light-emitting semiconductor particles a few billionths of a meter across - researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new and vastly more targeted way to stimulate neurons in the brain... Read More
Fasting May Boost Chemo By Weakening Cancer Cells
Feb 10, 2012
Fasting was as effective as chemotherapy in delaying growth of specific tumors in mice and boosted the effectiveness of chemotherapy on melanoma, glioma, and breast cancer cells... Read More
Guideline For Brain Metastases Developed By ASTRO
Feb 10, 2012
The American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) has developed a guideline on the radiotherapeutic and surgical management for newly diagnosed brain metastases. It has been published in Practical Radiation Oncology (PRO), ASTRO's official clinical practice journal... Read More
How DNA Finds Its Match
Feb 10, 2012
It's been more than 50 years since James Watson and Francis Crick showed that DNA is a double helix of two strands that complement each other. But how does a short piece of DNA find its match, out of the millions of 'letters' in even a small genome? New work by researchers at the University of California, Davis, handling and observing single molecules of DNA, shows how it's done... Read More
New Technique Holds Promise For Better Understanding Of Brain Disorders
Feb 10, 2012
By harnessing quantum dots - tiny light-emitting semiconductor particles a few billionths of a meter across - researchers at the University of Washington (UW) have developed a new and vastly more targeted way to stimulate neurons in the brain... Read More
Identifying Cancer Cells For Immune System Attack With DNA Sequencing
Feb 10, 2012
DNA sequences from tumor cells can be used to direct the immune system to attack cancer, according to scientists at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis. The research, in mice, appears online in Nature. The immune system relies on an intricate network of alarm bells, targets and safety brakes to determine when and what to attack... Read More
How Early Breast Tumors Become Deadly
Feb 10, 2012
Researchers have discovered a restricted pattern of molecules that differentiate early-stage breast tumors from invasive, life-threatening cancer. They also found a similar molecular signature that correlated with the aggressiveness of invasive tumors, and with the time to metastasis and overall survival. Researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center - Arthur G... Read More
Similarities Between Genetic Signatures In Developing Organs And Breast Cancer Could Predict And Personalize Cancer Therapies
Feb 10, 2012
Reviving a theory first proposed in the late 1800s that the development of organs in the normal embryo and the development of cancers are related, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have studied organ development in mice to unravel how breast cancers, and perhaps other cancers, develop in people... Read More
Breast Cancer Death Risk Grows With Age
Feb 09, 2012
A study in the February 8 edition of JAMA shows that postmenopausal women who suffer from hormone receptor-positive breast cancer have a higher death risk of breast cancer as they get older. Background information in the article states that: "Breast cancer is the leading contributor to cancer incidence and cancer mortality in women worldwide, with 1,383,500 new cases in 2008... Read More
Short Fasting Cycles Weaken Cancer In Mice; Can Work As Well As Chemotherapy, And The 2 Combined Greatly Improve Survival
Feb 09, 2012
Man may not live by bread alone, but cancer in animals appears less resilient, judging by a study that found chemotherapy drugs work better when combined with cycles of short, severe fasting. Even fasting on its own effectively treated a majority of cancers tested in animals, including cancers from human cells... Read More
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