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Tobacco plants could act as safe, speedy factories for growing antibodies for personalized treatments against a common form of cancer, without the side effects of traditional chemotherapy.
Tagged: cancer, healthcare, vaccines, Human Health, Medicine, Faculty
According to Sanjiv "Sam" Gambhir, molecular imaging is not so very
different from good detective work. Just as detectives use a range of
creative methods to find out what's going on behind the scenes, so do
his "molecular detectives," as he calls them.
Tagged: Bio-X, cancer, molecular imaging, Human Health, Medicine
Researchers identified potential new targets for cancer treatments by disovering two new proteins making up telomerase, an enzyme that maintains cells' genetic material.
Tagged: cancer, genes, proteins, telomerase, Human Health, Medicine
A follow-up study of postmenopausal women who took the combination of estrogen and progestin for more than five years shows an increased risk for breast cancer nearly three years after they quit taking the hormones.
Tagged: cancer, healthcare, hormones, Human Health, Medicine
Doctors may one day be able to detect early stages of colon cancer without a biopsy, using a new technique developed by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Tagged: cancer, imaging, Human Health, Medicine
Making rare cells available to researchers could hasten work on better cancer treatments.
Tagged: cancer, stem cells, Human Health, Medicine
Building on a newly rigorous understanding of the building blocks of life, two bioengineering professor are custom engineering peptides, small snippets of proteins, to fight disease.
Tagged: bioengineering, cancer, proteins, Human Health, Engineering, Medicine
A protein previously implicated in colon cancer now appears to have an additional role in preventing cells from dividing, a finding that could lead to new cancer therapies.
Tagged: cancer, healthcare, proteins, Human Health, Medicine
A protein crucial to healthy cell growth now appears also to maintain stockpiles of bone marrow stem cells. This finding could lead to better techniques for growing stem cells in culture and for understanding the mechanism of some cancers.Tagged: cancer, stem cells, students, Human Health, Medicine
Researchers have obtained a baseline snapshot of working conditions and
health concerns of nail salon workers in the first step of studies to
determine the health impact of their exposure to potential carcinogens
in nail care products.
Tagged: cancer, healthcare, Human Health, Medicine