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Fighting Ovarian Cancer With Gold Nanoparticles

Positively charged gold nanoparticles are usually toxic to cells, but cancer cells somehow manage to avoid nanoparticle toxicity. Mayo Clinic researchers found out why and determined how to make the nanoparticles effective against ovarian cancer cells. The discovery is detailed in the current online issue of the Journal of Biological Chemistry…

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Cancer Biorepository Speeds Clinical Trials, Drug Development, Moffitt Analysis Shows

Researchers at Moffitt Cancer Center say identifying and selecting participants for phase II cancer clinical trials from a centralized warehouse of patient-donated biological data expedites participant accrual, reduces trial size, saves money, and may speed test drugs through the drug development pipeline.

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Cellular Secrets May Be Revealed By New Imaging Technology

Researchers have married two biological imaging technologies, creating a new way to learn how good cells go bad. “Let’s say you have a large population of cells,” said Corey Neu, an assistant professor in Purdue University’s Weldon School of Biomedical Engineering. “Just one of them might metastasize or proliferate, forming a cancerous tumor…

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Prof. Levitzki chosen for Cancer Research Award

The American Association for Cancer Research has chosen Prof. Alexander Levitzki of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem as the winner of its 2013 Award for Outstanding Achievement in Chemistry in Cancer Research The AACR is currently holding its annual meeting through Wednesday in Washington, D.C. Levitzki, professor of biological chemistry at the … (more)

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Revealing How Melanoma Evades Chemotherapy

Nitric oxide , a gas with many biological functions in healthy cells, can also help some cancer cells survive chemotherapy.

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More Realistic Tumor Growth And Response To Anti-Cancer Drugs Using Polymer Scaffolds

Porous polymer scaffolds fabricated to support the growth of biological tissue for implantation may hold the potential to greatly accelerate the development of cancer therapeutics…

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Can repurposed cancer drugs counter bioterror threats?

Scientists are investigating whether two cancer medications have the potential of protecting U.S. troops from biological agents that could be unleashed during an attack.

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DNA Breakthrough Could Help Those At Risk For Breast, Ovarian Cancer

Erika Larson was just 21 when she got the news that changed her life. Adoption records showed her biological mother and grandmother had both died by 40 from ovarian cancer.

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DNA breakthrough could help those at risk for cancer

Erika Larson was just 21 when she got the news that changed her life. Adoption records showed her biological mother and grandmother had both died by 40 from ovarian cancer.

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Molecular Switch Discovered That Turns On Self-Renewal Of Liver Damage

The liver is one of the few organs in our body that can regenerate itself, but how it occurs is a biological mystery. New research from BRIC, University of Copenhagen and the Finsen Laboratory, Rigshospitalet, has identified a protein complex that acts as a molecular switch turning on a self-regeneration program in the liver…

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