A group of researchers at the Institute for Research in Immunology and Cancer (IRIC) of Universit- de Montr-al discovered a promising new approach to treating leukemia by disarming a gene that is responsible for tumor progression. That ...
Tags: Immunology and Cancer(IRIC), Leukemia Treatment, Brg1 gene
The discovery of seven new regions of DNA linked to type 2 diabetes could lead to new ways of thinking about diabetes and new treatments for the disease, researchers suggest. The findings were among the results of the largest study to ...
Tags: genetic effects, compiled genetic information, biology of the disease
A new combination MRI-ultrasound imaging system can result in fewer biopsies and better treatment decisions for prostate cancer patients. The technology, called UroNav®, fuses images from magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) with ...
Tags: MRI, PSA blood, Prostate Cancer, aggressive tumor, Loyola
Findings suggest drugs can now be developed to stall the growth of K-Ras cancers, previously deemed impossible to treat NYU Langone Medical Center researchers have found a biological weakness in the workings of the most commonly mutated ...
Tags: K-Ras, DNA, radiation, Mutated Gene
Patients with a common form of lung cancer — lung squamous cell carcinoma — have very few treatment options. That situation may soon change. A team of cancer biologists at Mayo Clinic in Florida is reporting in the Feb. 10 ...
Tags: Oncogene, lung cancer, PKCiota, SOX2
Inspired by tiny particles that carry cholesterol through the body, MIT chemical engineers have designed nanoparticles that can deliver snippets of genetic material that turn off disease-causing genes. This approach, known as RNA ...
Tags: RNA, MIT, Gene Silencing, Nanoparticle
A University of Otago, New Zealand, research breakthrough from the Sir John Walsh Research Institute is helping pave the way for novel antifungal drugs designed to overcome the world-wide problem of growing resistance to current treatments. ...
Tags: Aids, Drug Resistance, expand the array of antifungal treatments
The Whipple procedure, used to remove tumors from pancreatic cancer patients, is one of surgery's most extensive and challenging operations. Now, surgeons are using a minimally invasive robotic surgical system to perform the surgery. ...
Tags: Minimally Invasive Robotic Surgical System, Whipple Procedure
Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital and Carnegie Mellon University Announce a unique micro-robotic technique to assemble the components of complex materials Researchers at Brigham and Women's Hospital (BWH) and Carnegie Mellon ...
Tags: 3D Printing, Tissue Engineering, Micro-Robotic Technique, BWH
Putnam Hospital Center in Carmel, NY, is leading by example when it comes to promoting healthy lifestyle choices and encouraging workplace wellness. The CEO Roundtable on Cancer has accredited Putnam Hospital Center with the CEO Cancer Gold ...
Tags: Cancer, healthy lifestyle, workplace wellness, organization
In research that could ultimately lead to many new medicines, scientists from the Florida campus of The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have developed a potentially general approach to design drugs from genome sequence. As a proof of ...
Tags: Identify New Drug Candidates, unparalleled selectivity, cell permeable
Penn Medicine is the first academic medical center in Philadelphia - one among just a handful of academic medical centers in the U.S.—to launch a program across multiple professional schools and affiliated hospitals at Penn to improve ...
Tags: LGBT, health, medical education, outreach
Young women who smoke and have been smoking a pack a day for a decade or more have a significantly increased risk of developing the most common type of breast cancer. That is the finding of an analysis published early online in Cancer, a ...
Tags: Breast Cancer, Seattle-Puget Sound, cancer-free controls
The first large-scale study testing all the DNA—the entire genome—of tumour cells from more than 400 women with advanced breast cancer has identified individuals with a good chance of benefiting from specific treatments already ...
Tags: CGH, SAFIR01, DNA, Gustave Roussy
New surgical guidelines announced today by the Society of Surgical Oncology (SSO) and the American Society for Radiation Oncology (ASTRO) have the potential to significantly reduce unnecessary breast surgeries, improve patient outcomes and ...
Tags: SSO, ASTRO, AIS, Peggy Johnson