Researchers at Boston University School of Medicine (BUSM) have discovered that blocking a specific protein, may be a promising strategy to prevent the spread of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC). Under the direction of BUSM’s Gerald V. Denis PhD, researchers have long studied a family of three closely related proteins, called BET bromodomain proteins, composed of […]
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Everyone should take these, the first five warning signs of prostate cancer serious
What are the symptoms that indicate a change in the prostate? In men, prostate cancer is the most common cancer in the Western world. Each year 60,000 new cases are registered. Every fourth Tumor developed in men in the prostate. About 10 percent of the disease cases are fatal. Often the disease is detected too […]
Surprising research result: All immature cells can develop into stem cells
A new study conducted at the University of Copenhagen challenges traditional knowledge of stem cell development. The study reveals that the destiny of intestinal cells is not predetermined, but instead determined by the cells’ surroundings. The findings may make it easier to manipulate stem cells for stem cell therapy. Results have just been published in […]
Fishing for cures: New zebrafish model identifies drugs that kill pediatric cancer cells
A new animal model developed by Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH) investigators promises to be less expensive, easier to use and to improve personalized therapies for cancers and potentially other diseases. In their paper published online in Cell, the investigators describe using their immunodeficient zebrafish model to visualize drug responses at single-cell resolution in live animals. […]
Magnetic nanoparticles can ‘burn’ cancer cells: Magnetic hyperthermia is still a highly experimental cancer treatment, but new research shows that the therapy is tunable
Unfortunately, cancer isn’t simply a single disease, and some types, like pancreas, brain or liver tumours, are still difficult to treat with chemotherapy, radiation therapy or surgery, leading to low survival rates for patients. Thankfully, new therapies are emerging, like therapeutic hyperthermia, which heats tumours by firing nanoparticles into tumour cells. In a new study […]
Drug takes aim at cancer metastasis
Many cancers are relatively harmless at their site of origin, and it is only when they metastasize to sites like the brain, bones, lungs, and liver that they become especially dangerous. And so, in addition to stopping the growth of cancer at its primary site, an ongoing goal of cancer research is to keep cancer […]
Removal of ‘zombie cells’ alleviates causes of diabetes in obese mice
Mayo Clinic researchers and their collaborators have shown that when senescent cells — also known as “zombie cells” — are removed from fat tissue in obese mice, severity of diabetes and a range of its causes or consequences decline or disappear. The findings appear in Aging Cell. Inflammation and dysfunction of fat tissue cause some […]
Cancer has a biological clock and this drug may keep it from ticking: A promising drug slows cancer’s circadian clock, halts its spread
A new drug shows potential to halt cancer cells’ growth by stunting the cells’ biological clock. The findings from scientists at the USC Michelson Center for Convergent Bioscience and Nagoya University’s Institute of Transformative BioMolecules (ITbM) advance a burgeoning area of research: turning the body’s circadian rhythms against cancer. Their study, conducted on human kidney […]
Test for esophageal cancer could save millions of lives: A tiny capsule, a string and a 2-centimeter sponge are the future of screening for deadly disease
Cancer of the esophagus claims more than 400,000 lives around the world each year. With no efficient, reliable method of screening for the disease, by the time symptoms become apparent, it’s often too late to save the patient. A Johns Hopkins researcher who has devoted his career to the detection and prevention of esophageal cancer […]
Breakthrough in cancer diagnosis: blood test to detect all cancers at the same time within a few minutes
Can this revolutionize the fast test, the cancer diagnosis? A new type of blood or tissue test can diagnose within just ten minutes cancer. As the basis of a newly-discovered structure of DNA, which seems to be the case with all types of cancer to occur. The Test detects quickly and easily, whether these structures […]