Molecular "Mouse-trap" for Stem and Cancer Cells

8 Feb, 2008 06:09 pm Six years ago, biomedical engineer Michael King was exploring the strange rolling motion of white blood cells when his research took a radical turn.

Nanotechnology in Medicine: Massive Advances on a Tiny Scale

24 Jan, 2008 01:15 pm Professor Naomi Halas at Rice University (TX) discusses her nanotechnology research and its applicable uses in science and medicine of the future. (CNN)

Magic Bullets: How Nanosized Drug Packages Can Bring Drugs More Selectively to Cancer

27 Nov, 2007 10:42 am Anticancer agents such as paclitaxel and cisplatin display a very high therapeutic potency towards isolated cancer cells. However,...

A Vaccine for Cancer

12 Nov, 2007 10:21 am Efforts to train the immune system to attack cancer cells has been met with limited success, mainly because the immune system recognizes cancer cells as...

Slowing Cell Rolling in the Bloodstream

2 Nov, 2007 10:10 am Cell rolling is an important physiological and pathological process that is used to recruit specific cells in the bloodstream to a target tissue...

Nano particles, medicine and heat conduction

23 Oct, 2007 11:10 am Metal nano particles have a particularly large optical cross-section that can be used in high resolution imaging and treating cancer. Heat transport,...

Nanotechnology Researchers at Northwestern University Revolutionize Drug Delivery with Advanced Nanomaterials

22 Oct, 2007 10:09 am Nanodiamonds, a revolutionary class of nanomaterials, are 2 nanometers in diameter in single-particle form, and can be manipulated to form clusters with...

Targeting and Detecting Cancer Cells Using Nanoparticles

23 Jul, 2007 02:26 pm Current cancer therapy always experiences non-specific killing of healthy cells, thus the therapeutic efficiency is extremely low...

A One-Two Punch Against Multidrug Resistant Cancer

13 Jul, 2007 03:10 pm The development of multidrug resistance represents the single most important reason for therapeutic failure in the clinical management of cancer,...

Four New Breast Cancer Genes Identified

7 Jun, 2007 04:11 pm A Sky News Video on the discovery of four new genes that contribute to the risk of breast cancer. Geneticists believe that their findings may help to develop...

New Lead For Breast Cancer Therapy

7 Jun, 2007 04:11 pm Breast cancer is a deadly disease. This year over 170,000 new cases of breast cancer will be diagnosed in the United States...

Gene Therapy Fights Cancer

25 May, 2007 03:55 pm A report on BBC News shows how gene therapy using viruses is a new frontier in the fight against cancer.

Inhibition of Vinyl Carbamate-Induced Mutagenicity and Chromosomal Damage by a Garlic Component in Mice

21 Mar, 2007 07:00 pm Vinyl carbamate (VC) is derived from ethyl carbamate (EC), a chemical found in alcoholic beverages and fermented foods. We carried out studies to determine...

Characterization of Ovarian Tumor Vascular Cells, a New Source for Ovarian Cancer Biomarkers

26 Mar, 2007 11:36 am We recently characterized the genes expressed by ovarian tumor blood vessel cells[1]. This work demonstrated that the blood vessel cells in ovarian cancer...

Role of the Rb tumor suppressor in regulation of stem cell proliferation

13 Mar, 2007 03:21 pm The first tumor suppressor gene was identified in the 1950s and was designated Retinoblastoma (RB) because of the tumors that formed on the retina of the...

Epilepsy Diet is Effective in Managing Malignant Brain Cancer

6 Mar, 2007 10:35 am The ketogenic diet is a high fat, low carbohydrate and low protein diet that has been used for decades as a last resort for managing drug-resistant seizures...

DNA As a Sensor of Oncogenic Threat

18 Jan, 2007 06:14 pm DNA has been the focus of biomedical research since the discovery of its structure by Watson and Crick in 1953. DNA is portrayed as the essence of life...

An Exciting Moment In Time For Cancer Research

12 Jan, 2007 02:01 pm Dr. Kenneth Kinzler is a professor of oncology at the Johns Hopkins School of Medicine. He is also a MERIT Award recipient at the National Cancer Institute...

Common Drugs Can Be Effective Anticancer Drugs

11 Jan, 2007 09:49 am Worldwide, cancer persists as one of the most important diseases that affects human beings. According to the Globocan series of the International Agency...

Possibility of Drug Treatment to Prevent Breast Cancer

1 Jan, 2007 04:26 pm Over 200,000 women will be diagnosed with breast cancer this year, but thanks to new findings, at least five percent of those cases can potentially be...