Are you able to taste a bitter chemical found in foods like dark chocolate, coffee and broccoli? It means you are almost 60 per cent more likely to get CANCER, reveals study Tasting a bitter chemical in green vegetables puts you more at risk of cancer The chemical PTC, short for phenylthiocabamide, is tasteless to […]
Research identifies new breast cancer therapeutic target
Research led by Suresh Alahari, Ph.D., Professor of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology at LSU Health New Orleans School of Medicine, has shown for the first time that a tiny piece of RNA deregulates energy metabolism, an emerging hallmark of cancer. The finding identifies a new target for therapeutic intervention in breast cancer. The research is […]
Scientists discover a mechanism of drug resistance in breast and ovarian cancer
There is a highly sophisticated way to treat some breast and ovarian cancers—a class of drugs called PARP inhibitors, designed to exploit the very defects that make tumors with certain mutations especially deadly. Yet this targeted approach to cancer therapy sometimes fails, and scientists have anxiously sought to understand why. Now, research at The Rockefeller […]
Ayurveda drug trials against cancer to begin in Chennai
Clinical human trials on an Ayurvedic cancer drug that reduces cancer tumours when used with routine chemotherapy will begin in Chennai next month. “We have tested the drug on 10 patients with encouraging results, and the second trial with 30 persons is expected to get over in March 2019, after which we will apply for […]
Girl who missed years of school fighting cancer is voted prom queen
Teenager who triumphed over cancer: Girl, 16, who missed three years of school battling disease sits her GCSE exams and is voted prom queen by classmates at her end-of-school ball Charlotte Jenkins, from Stockport in Manchester, had acute myeloid leukaemia After years of gruelling treatment she was able to go to her end of school […]
Engineered cancer cells can fight primary and metastatic cancer
What if cancer cells could be re-engineered to turn against their own kind? A new study led by researchers at Brigham and Women’s Hospital leverages the power of gene editing to take a critical step toward using cancer cells to kill cancer. The team reports promising results in preclinical models across multiple types of cancer […]
Focussed ultrasound used to improve effects of cancer drugs
Researchers have made a breakthrough in more precisely targeting drugs to cancers. Using ultrasound and lipid drug carriers (liposomes), a multi-disciplinary team of biomedical engineers, oncologists, radiologists and anaesthetists at the University of Oxford have developed a new way to improve the targeting of cancer drugs to tumours. The new technology has been used in […]
New method discovered to view proteins inside human cells: Scientists develop tagging device using Ferritin
Scientists at the University of Warwick have created a new way to view proteins that are inside human cells. Using Ferritin, a large protein shell that our cells use to store iron, the researchers have found a method they have called FerriTag that allows an electron microscope (EM) to view proteins precisely unlike current methods. […]
Prostate cancer diagnosis later for Kiwi men
New Zealand men are being diagnosed with prostate cancer later in life at a higher prostate-specific antigen (PSA) level and higher disease grade compared to men in the United States according to University of Auckland research. Dr. Nishi Karunasinghe and colleagues at the Auckland Cancer Society Research Centre at the University’s Faculty of Medical and […]
Limiting These Foods Could Help Fight Breast Cancer
Healthy dietary changes have long been associated with reducing the risk of developing different cancers, but a new study has found that curbing certain foods from your diet could also influence the deadliness of the disease. Research suggests that limiting the consumption of an amino acid called asparagine could dramatically reduce the ability of cancer to spread to other […]