POSTS TAGGED AS cancer

Surviving Cancer, Facing Bankruptcy

Not long ago, opponents of healthcare reform asserted that the US had the best healthcare system in the world [MORE]

Google-Earth View of Bladder’s Interior

Saying that he wants to give urologists “a Google Earth view of the bladder, University of Washington engineering professor [MORE]

General Medicine Links

The Mesothelioma Cancer Alliance providing educational resources for patients and families.

Plying the Blood-Brain Barrier with Ultrasound

Using a headset to beam low-intensity ultrasound over the entire brain, for an hour’s duration, Perfusion Technology (Andover, MA) [MORE]

Aging vs. Immortality

If cancer cells represent a kind of immortality (having lost their inability to die naturally), then it is not [MORE]

More Horsepower for Molecular Imaging

Last month, four of the UK’s leading research institutions-the Medical Research Council, Imperial College London, King’s College London, and [MORE]

Robot for IV Cancer Therapy

Getting the right mix of chemotherapy drugs, properly diluted, in a sterile IV bag, without contamination, can be a [MORE]

Cancer Detection in an Hour

Investigators at Massachusetts General Hospital’s Center for Systems Biology have used magnetic nanoparticles, with attached protein ligands, to detect [MORE]

Circulating Tumor Cells, Alternative to Biopsy?

Capturing circulating tumor cells not only could be an alternative to taking a biopsy, their detection could hold earlier diagnosis [MORE]

A Catch-22 for Cancer Survivors

Surviving cancer can have adverse effects-e.g. cardiovascular complications, obesity, diabetes, osteopenia and osteoporosis, et al. For those reasons, cancer [MORE]

Cancer Markers In Toenail Tissue

Nicotine accumulates in toenail tissue whether or not the toes belong to a smoker or a nonsmoker who had [MORE]

New Genetic Target for Hypertension

Yale scientists recently announced their findings that a genetic mutation resulting in loss of potassium channel function is implicated [MORE]

Magnetic Nanoparticles for Early Cancer Detection

Enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay diagnostic is the gold-standard for determining cervical cancer, but it is not particularly adept for identifying [MORE]

Internal Device for Navigating Cancer Treatments

By implanting a tracking sensor inside a surgical patient’s body, robotics manufacturer Adept Technology, Inc. (Pleasanton, CA) is testing [MORE]

Insight on DNA Repair

Near the end of chromosome 9′s long arm, the SET oncogene plays several roles in cellular function, including apoptosis, [MORE]

Urine Biomarker for Brain Tumors

Matrix metalloproteinases (MMPs)are zinc-dependent enzymes that play degrading roles with certain extracellular proteins, and have been implicated in breast [MORE]

Microfluidics Chip for Cancer Diagnosis

Microfluidic chips that can capture cancer cells circulating in the blood have existed for a few years, but a [MORE]

Nanostructures for Drug Delivery

One of the great unknowns about cancer is how metastasized cells, sometimes, can develop drug resistance, making for a [MORE]

Nanomaterials that Capture Circulating Tumor Cells

Biomedical engineers at Cornell University have added Halloysite nanotubes to a protein coated surface of a microflow device to more [MORE]

Growing Tumors Rapidly in the Lab

Todd Ridky, MD and a group at Stanford, were able to transform several human epithelial cells into invasive malignancies [MORE]