Cancer
Breast cancers enhance their growth by recruiting cells from bone marrow
Credit: Raz et al., 2018 Researchers in Israel have discovered that breast tumors can boost their growth by recruiting stromal...
Sugar supplement slows tumor growth and can improve cancer treatment
Mannose sugar, a nutritional supplement, can both slow tumour growth and enhance the effects of chemotherapy in mice with multiple...
Screening for colorectal cancer spares male patients from intense treatments
Colorectal cancer is the third most common form of cancer in the world. Every year in Finland, approximately 3,000 new...
A protein that makes skin cancer cells more invasive
Credit: Yanagi T. et al., Cancer Research, November 2, 2018 Loss of a protein called TRIM29 promotes cancer cell invasion...
As vaping increased in popularity, use of cigarettes declined
WASHINGTON -- A comprehensive analysis examining the relationship between vaping and smoking among youth and young adults finds that cigarette...
Treating a rare genetic disorder that causes colon cancer in children
Credit: University of Houston A University of Houston pharmaceutical scientist is developing a new drug which could bring relief to...
Cutting the legs off cancer
Credit: Wellcome Images CC-BY-NC-ND http://www.cellimagelibrary.org/images/38960 Melanoma skin cancer tumors grow larger and are more likely to metastasize due to interactions...
The Pancreatic Cancer Collective awards $7 million in ‘New Therapies Challenge’ grants
Credit: Pancreatic Cancer Collective, Stand Up To Cancer, Lustgarten Foundation The Pancreatic Cancer Collective, the strategic partnership of the Lustgarten...
Researchers stop ‘sneaky’ cancer cells in their tracks
Credit: Tabdanov/Provenzano, University of Minnesota A new study by University of Minnesota biomedical engineers shows how they stopped cancer cells...
New mechanism controlling the master cancer regulator uncovered
Of the more than 23,000 genes in the human genome, only a handful assume a very central role in signal...
Women benefit from mammography screening beyond age 75
CHICAGO - Women age 75 years and older should continue to get screening mammograms because of the comparatively high incidence...
Aspirin and omega-3 reduce pre-cancerous bowel polyps
Both aspirin and a purified omega-3, called EPA, reduce the number of pre-cancerous polyps in patients found to be at...
‘Druggable’ cancer target found in pathway regulating organ size
Credit: Wei-Chien Yuan/Boston Children's Hospital It's known that cancer involves unchecked cell growth and that a biological pathway that regulates...
Human images from world’s first total-body scanner unveiled
Credit: UC Davis and Zhongshan Hospital, Shanghai EXPLORER, the world's first medical imaging scanner that can capture a 3-D picture...
Repurposing FDA-approved drugs can help fight back breast cancer
Credit: Baylor College of Medicine Screening Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved compounds for their ability to stop cancer growth in...
Identification of LZTR1 leads to novel insights into RAS-driven diseases
Mutations in RAS proteins initiate many of the most aggressive tumors, and the search for pharmacological inhibitors of these proteins...
Study links social isolation to higher risk of death
A large American Cancer Society study links social isolation with a higher risk of death from all causes combined and...
Vine compound starves cancer cells
Credit: Pictures: Severin Muyisa / Suresh Awale Professor Gerhard Bringmann, an expert in natural product chemistry, and his team from...
Insilico Medicine to present ‘Cure a disease in a year’ challenge at BioDataWorld 2018
Credit: Insilico Medicine Friday, November 16 - Insilico Medicine, a Rockville-based company developing the end-to-end drug discovery and real world...
From the ashes of a failed pain drug, a new therapeutic path emerges
Credit: Woolf Lab/Boston Childrens Hospital/IMBA In 2013, renowned Boston Children's Hospital pain researcher Clifford Woolf, MB, BCh, PhD, and chemist...