POSTS TAGGED AS chemotherapy

Sonoporation for Enhanced Chemotherapy Effectiveness

Sonoporation
Sonoporation—i.e. using ultrasound to induce porosity—has been used in cell therapies for some years—but now researchers in Norway have used [MORE]

Monitoring the Immune System Noninvasively

Leukometer
Patients undergoing anticancer chemotherapy need frequent blood monitoring to see if the drugs are killing off more white blood cells [MORE]

Light-Activated Chemotherapy

Photostatins are molecules that respond to blue light by changing their shape. Knowing this, chemists at Ludwig-Maximillans University in Munich [MORE]

Microarray Testing for Chemotherapy Cocktails

Microarray
Tumor stem cells drive a mass’s growth and isolating those cells is a means for testing the probability that a [MORE]

Device to Measure Drug Metabolism in the Liver

Liver Drug Analysis
Anticancer drugs are metabolized in the liver before they reach the tumor target—thus a need for a means [MORE]

Regenerating Taste Buds

Taste Buds
Catenin beta-1 is a protein with two roles—it functions is cell-to cell adhesion and in transcription of RNA to [MORE]

Mapping DNA Repair in the Human Genome

DNA Repair
An unfortunate reality of cancer is that means for killing tumor cells (chemotherapy and radiation) can also cause more [MORE]

Chemotherapy Eluting Implant

MIT Personalized Medicine
MIT researchers have devised a tiny, implantable device that can deliver small doses of up to 30 different [MORE]

Iontophoresis, Drug Delivery by Electrical Waves

Iontophoresis
If you recall electrophoresis experiments from your high school biology class, you’ve seen how ions in an electrical current can [MORE]

3-D Printed Plastic Beads for Drug Delivery

Printing Custom Medical Implants
“Most of today’s antibiotic implants, or “beads,” are made out of bone cements which have to be [MORE]

Sensor that Monitors Drug Dosage

MEDIC
Anticancer chemotherapy has had some similarities to gunfire range-finding: too much, then too little to find the effective “shot” somewhere [MORE]

Prognostic Biomarkers for Chemotherapy

In bookbinding, a large printed sheet, folded into eight faces makes up a signature.  In this piece, Taiwanese cancer [MORE]

Genomics-Based Rx

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

New Discovery in Cell Death: Necroptosis

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