Items tagged with Tumor

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Electroporation 'Knife' for Cancer Friday, February 6th, 2009 - 12:45:26 - Anuradha Menon Electroporation, a technique that microbiologists have long used experimentally to temporarily punch holes in cell membranes and ferry drugs or genes... read more

'Crystal Ball' Personalizes Cancer Treatment Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 - 19:36:38 - Ehud Rattner For many cancer patients, chemotherapy can be worse than cancer itself. A patient may respond to one drug but not another - or the tumor may mutate... read more

Extra Chromosome Cells Share Cancer Traits Friday, October 31st, 2008 - 18:51:08 - Anuradha Menon Mammalian cells with extra chromosomes share some common traits that could be exploited to develop cancer treatments, according to MIT biologists... read more

Nicotine Linked To Breast Cancer Sunday, October 19th, 2008 - 09:55:16 - Ehud Rattner A study published in Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research, suggests a possible role for nicotine in breast... read more

Robot to Detect, Destroy Breast Cancer Sunday, October 12th, 2008 - 18:21:20 - Iddo Genuth For mechanical engineering professor Jaydev Desai, breast cancer awareness is more than a month-long endeavor. Though October is Breast Cancer... read more

Receptor's Function to Stop Tumor Growth Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 16:05:34 - Anuradha Menon An international team of researchers has discovered what promises to be the on-off switch behind several major diseases. In the advance online... read more

Advance in Pluripotent Cell Creation Tuesday, October 7th, 2008 - 12:11:12 - Anuradha Menon A team of Harvard Stem Cell Institute (HSCI) scientists has taken an important step toward producing induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells that are... read more

Nano-Sized 'Cargo Ships' to Destroy Tumors Friday, September 12th, 2008 - 16:24:21 - Anuradha Menon Scientists have developed nanometer-sized 'cargo ships' that can sail throughout the body via the bloodstream without immediate detection from the... read more

Eradicating Leukemia Initiating Cells Tuesday, May 13th, 2008 - 12:17:15 - Ehud Rattner In both leukemia and solid tumors, there exists among the multitude of warrior cancer cells a small subgroup that work undercover, patiently lying in... read more

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