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Promiscuous Antibody Targets Cancer

Sunday, March 22nd, 2009 - 18:40:00 - Sarah Gingichashvili

Researchers have challenged an old immunological dogma — that an antibody can bind to only a single target or antigen — by engineering an antibody to...

Cancer-Causing Genes Removed from Stem Cells

Friday, March 6th, 2009 - 12:25:46 - Anuradha Menon

Whitehead Institute researchers have developed a novel method of removing potential cancer-causing genes during the reprogramming of skin cells from...

Colon Cancer Cause Revealed?
Monday, March 2nd, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
Additional evidence of the link between cancer and inflammation: Scientists from MIT have uncovered one of the causes for...

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Isolated Protein Domain Linked to Tumors

Friday, February 20th, 2009 - 14:11:27 - Anuradha Menon

When a promising cancer drug reached clinical trials in the 1990s, researchers were disappointed by the debilitating side effects that limited the...

Nanoscopic Changes to Cells Reveal Cancer

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 - 10:41:58 - Anuradha Menon

A team of researchers led by a Northwestern University biomedical engineer has developed a way to examine cell biopsies and detect never-before-seen...

Early Transfusion Fights Cancer
Tuesday, February 17th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
A research team from Tel Aviv University in Israel, led by Professor Shamgar Ben-Eliyahu, discovered that a transfusion of...

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RNA Interference Suppresses Ovarian Tumor

Thursday, February 12th, 2009 - 14:05:59 - Anuradha Menon

Small RNA molecules can effectively keep ovarian tumors from growing and spreading in mice, according to a team of researchers from MIT, the Lankenau...

Improved Early Cancer Nano-Detection

Wednesday, February 11th, 2009 - 18:06:53 - Anuradha Menon

Improved early disease detection is one of the major promises of nanotechnology. For many diseases, including cancer, early detection is the single...

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...

New Contrast Agent to Help Fight Cancer
Wednesday, February 4th, 2009 - Anni Shaer Levitt
Researcher Kristina Djanashvili, from Delft University of Technology in the Netherlands, has developed a new contrast agent...