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New radiation therapy technology takes weeks off of lung cancer treatments - Elekta's Versa HD™
Sep 23, 2013
On September 4, Kettering Medical Center (Kettering, Ohio) became the first clinic in North America to use Elekta's Versa HD™ system to treat a patient, a 71-year-old woman with medically inoperable lung cancer. The rapid speed of radiosurgery with Versa HD enabled Kettering physicians to reduce the number of treatment sessions for this patient from seven weeks to three days... Read More
Discovery of Protein 'motif' crucial to telomerase activity offers insight in the hunt for drugs to block enzyme highly active in most cancers
Sep 23, 2013
It is difficult to underestimate the importance of telomerase, an enzyme that is the hallmark of both aging and the uncontrolled cell division associated with cancer. In an effort to understand and control telomerase activity, researchers at The Wistar Institute have discovered a protein "motif," named TFLY, which is crucial to the function of telomerase... Read More
Mass-spectrometry-based method adapted to profile ribsomes and associated factors
Sep 23, 2013
In molecular biology, the ribosome represents the machinery necessary to assemble proteins, the building blocks of life. In this process, information encoded in the genome's DNA is first transcribed to messenger RNA in the nucleus, then transported to the ribosome where protein-assembly instructions are put in motion to translate the code into actual proteins... Read More
A promising way to boost the body's immune surveillance via p53, "the genome guardian" in the fight against cancer
Sep 23, 2013
Researchers at A*STAR's Singapore Immunology Network (SIgN) have discovered a new mechanism involving p53, the famous tumour suppressor, to fight against aggressive cancers. This strategy works by sabotaging the ability of the cancer cells to hide from the immune system... Read More
Hormone fluctuations, immune cells and breast cancer risk
Sep 23, 2013
University of Adelaide researchers have made a major discovery that highlights the important role played by immune cells in the risk of developing breast cancer. Researchers have focused their efforts on immune cells known as macrophages in the breast, and how the role of these cells changes because of fluctuations in hormones during different times of the month... Read More
Tackling drug-resistant cancers using a genome-forward approach
Sep 23, 2013
If you really want to understand why a particular human cancer resists treatment, you have to be able to study that tumor - really study it - in a way that just isn't possible in humans. Cancer biologists have been developing a new approach to this challenge, by transplanting human cancers directly from patients to mice whose crippled immune systems will allow those human tissues to grow... Read More
Researchers reveal that proteins delivering leucine to prostate cancer cells may offer therapeutic targets
Sep 22, 2013
Like normal cells, cancer cells require amino acids for growth, maintenance, and cell signaling, and L-type amino acid transporters (LATs) are the delivery vehicles that supply them... Read More
New technique helps bring genome's 'dark matter' into the light
Sep 22, 2013
Using technology he helped develop, Vanderbilt University scientist Bryan Venters, Ph.D., has shed new light on the "dark matter" of the genome and has begun to explore a possible new approach to treating cancer... Read More
Researchers reveal that proteins delivering leucine to prostate cancer cells may offer therapeutic targets
Sep 22, 2013
Like normal cells, cancer cells require amino acids for growth, maintenance, and cell signaling, and L-type amino acid transporters (LATs) are the delivery vehicles that supply them... Read More
New technique helps bring genome's 'dark matter' into the light
Sep 22, 2013
Using technology he helped develop, Vanderbilt University scientist Bryan Venters, Ph.D., has shed new light on the "dark matter" of the genome and has begun to explore a possible new approach to treating cancer... Read More
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