Adult cells transformed into early-stage nerve cells, bypassing the...
Bypassing the ultra-flexible iPSC stage was a key advantage, says senior author Su-Chun Zhang, a professor of neuroscience and neurology. "IPSC cells can generate any cell type, which could be a...
View ArticleFocus on STD, not cancer prevention, to promote HPV vaccine use
These results go against the conventional wisdom that scaring women about the possibility of cancer is the best way to get them vaccinated. The failure of that cancer-threat message may be one reason...
View ArticleNew, more accurate way of imaging lung cancer tumors
Their study appeared in the March issue of Pattern Recognition. Lung cancer is the deadliest cancer in men and women. According to the National Institutes of Health, the five-year survival rate (16.3...
View ArticlePromising new method for rapidly screening cancer drugs
As Rotello and his doctoral graduate student Le Ngoc, one of the lead authors, explain, to discover a new drug for any disease, researchers must screen billions of compounds, which can take months. One...
View ArticlePortable device provides rapid, accurate diagnosis of tuberculosis, other...
"Rapidly identifying the pathogen responsible for an infection and testing for the presence of resistance are critical not only for diagnosis but also for deciding which antibiotics to give a patient,"...
View ArticleProtein complex may play role in preventing many forms of cancer
The broad reach of the effect of mutations in the complex, called BAF, rivals that of another well-known tumor suppressor called p53. It also furthers a growing notion that these so-called...
View ArticleDiscovery may help prevent chemotherapy-induced anemia
Constantly regenerating and maturing, the hematopoietic (blood-producing) stem cells in our bone marrow produce billions of red blood cells (RBC) every day. Cancer chemotherapy is notorious for...
View ArticleDiscovery helps show how breast cancer spreads
It has long been known that women with denser breasts are at higher risk for breast cancer. This greater density is caused by an excess of a structural protein called collagen. "We have shown how...
View ArticleNew target for personalized cancer therapy
The research team has pinpointed the cancer abnormality to a mutation in a gene called PIK3CA that results in a mutant protein, which may be an early cancer switch. By disrupting the mutated signaling...
View ArticleMaking cancer less cancerous
"This master regulator is normally turned off in adult cells, but it is very active during embryonic development and in all highly aggressive tumors studied to date," says Linda Resar, M.D., an...
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