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Problems with Sequencing Tumor Cells

May 29, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

It is common knowledge that it’s better to catch cancer in an early state than later. The reason is that [MORE]

Cell-Engineering for Drug Free Organ Transplants

May 22, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Kidney transplant patients can take up to 25 drugs, every day for the rest of their lives, to suppress [MORE]

A Cancer Breathalyzer

April 24, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Breath Tester
Dogs can be trained to detect the smell of lung cancer in a person’s breath—with 98% accuracy.  With [MORE]

Advanced Microfluidics

April 17, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Microfluidic Device
In developing inkjet printers during the 1980’s scientists observed how differently fluids behave at the micro level than [MORE]

DNA “Origami”

April 17, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

DNA Robot
DNA’s ability to fold tightly probably explains why it survived in the primordial soup that covered the Earth before [MORE]

Genomics-Based Rx

April 3, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Alexis Borisy (left) and Michael Pellini lead an effort to make DNA data available to help cancer patients.
With lower costs [MORE]

Visualizing Cancer Cells in Vivo

January 31, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

Visualizing cancer cells with "spray"
Cancer gets its name from the crab because of its resemblance to a mass with [MORE]

Looking for Cancer with a Flashlight

January 24, 2012 | | Posted in Newsletter

It is a flashlight of sorts, but a more accurate description is an endoscope that emits short bursts of [MORE]

Implantable Tumor Monitor

November 29, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Inside an implantable device about the size of a thumbnail, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have placed [MORE]

Biomarker for Earlier Detection of Ovarian Cancer

October 18, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Epidemiologists have long suspected a link between infertility and ovarian cancer, and researchers at Rush University Medical Center may [MORE]

New Insight into Breast Cancer Biology

October 18, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

 
Researchers at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia have found that breast cancer cells secrete hydrogen peroxide, thereby creating oxidative stress [MORE]

Leukemia Trial Brings New Hope from Gene Therapy

October 11, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Purple Cells – New Leukemia Treatment
This piece reports a gene therapy success against chronic lymphocytic leukemia for three patients [MORE]

New Discovery in Cell Death: Necroptosis

September 13, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Cells become cancerous when they loose their ability to undergo programmed cell death (known as “apoptosis”).  Until recently, apoptosis [MORE]

Magnetic Hyperthermia

August 9, 2011 | | Posted in Newsletter

Treating Cancer with Magnets
Fascination with magnets has launched thousands of claims for their health benefits-in treating pain, asthma, allergies, [MORE]