Industry News
Getting To The Root Of Aggressive Ovarian Cancer
Mar 08, 2013
Cornell University researchers have discovered a likely origin of epithelial ovarian cancer (ovarian carcinoma), the fifth leading cause of cancer death among women in the United States. Pinpointing where this cancer originates has been difficult because 70 percent of patients are in advanced stages of disease by the time it is detected... Read More
Resistance Report Released By The American Academy Of Microbiology
Mar 08, 2013
What do cancer cells, weeds, and pathogens have in common? They all evolve resistance to the treatments that are supposed to eliminate them. However, researchers developing the next generation of antibiotics, herbicides, and anti-cancer therapeutics rarely come together to explore the common evolutionary principles at work across their different biological systems... Read More
Using 'Acid Reflux' To Kill Cancer Cells
Mar 08, 2013
A University of Central Florida chemist has come up with a unique way to kill certain cancer cells - give them acid reflux. Chemistry professor Kevin Belfield used a special salt to make cancer cells more acidic - similar to the way greasy foods cause acid reflux in some people... Read More
Lack Of Studies Means Benefit Of PET Or PET/CT In Bone And Soft Tissue Tumours Is Not Proven
Mar 08, 2013
For patients with bone and soft tissue tumours, the study data currently available allow no robust conclusions as to the advantages and disadvantages of using positron emission tomography (PET), alone or in combination with computed tomography (CT). This is because no studies have directly compared the benefit of these imaging techniques with conventional diagnostics... Read More
Focal Laser Ablation Offers Another Option For Some Prostate Cancer Patients
Mar 08, 2013
Men with low-risk prostate cancer who previously had to choose between aggressive treatment, with the potential for significant side effects, and active surveillance, with the risk of disease progression, may have a new option... Read More
Progression Of Barrett's Esophagus To Esophageal Adenocarcinoma May Be Predicted By Biomarkers
Mar 08, 2013
A series of microRNA expression signatures that may help to define progression of the precancerous condition Barrett's esophagus into esophageal adenocarcinoma was reported recently in Cancer Prevention Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research... Read More
Biochemists Gain New Insight Into Double-Protected Dance Of Cell Division
Mar 08, 2013
Biochemists at the University of Massachusetts Amherst including assistant professor Peter Chien recently gained new insight into how protein synthesis and degradation help to regulate the delicate ballet of cell division. In particular, they reveal how two proteins shelter each other in "mutually assured cleanup" to insure that division goes smoothly and safely... Read More
'Prevent Loss' Message Better Than 'Provide Benefits' In Blood Donation Campaigns
Mar 08, 2013
Subtle changes in messaging can have a profound impact on the effectiveness of charitable messages such as calls for blood donations, according to research published in the open access journal PLOS ONE by Eileen Chou from the University of Virginia and co-author Keith Murnighan at Northwestern University. Though chronic shortages in U... Read More
Physicists Probe Stress-Induced Changes In Clot-Forming Protein
Mar 08, 2013
New research from Rice University, Baylor College of Medicine (BCM) and the Puget Sound Blood Center (PSBC) has revealed how stresses of flow in the small blood vessels of the heart and brain could cause a common protein to change shape and form dangerous blood clots... Read More
Focal Laser Ablation Offers Another Option For Some Prostate Cancer Patients
Mar 08, 2013
Men with low-risk prostate cancer who previously had to choose between aggressive treatment, with the potential for significant side effects, and active surveillance, with the risk of disease progression, may have a new option... Read More
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