Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
The crystal structure of an RNA molecule bound to a protein was used by Purdue and University of Texas at Austin researchers to study a stage of evolution. (Credit: Image courtesy of Barbara Golden, Purdue University Department of Biochemistry)
The crystal structure of a molecule from a primitive fungus has served ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
A radical light-activated cancer therapy that destroys tumours while leaving healthy tissues untouched has been demonstrated for the first time by a team of British scientists. The treatment, which has been developed over the past 11 years, was used to cure ovarian tumours in mice, though in principle it could ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Jennifer Sieck knew something had to be done when she would lie in bed most of the day and night. “It would be a big deal and everyone would get excited if I’d come down to the living room and could sit there for 10 or 20 minutes,” the 38 ...
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Thursday, October 25th, 2007
Studying childhood cancer patients who have suffered tissue and organ damage from chemotherapy treatments, researchers have found that growth hormones can reverse damage to the heart. Before the children started growth-hormone treatment their heart walls were very thin. Within weeks of starting it, the walls became thicker and their heart ...
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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007
A person is 100 times more likely to get cancer at age 65 than at age 35. But new research reported today in the journal "Nature Genetics" identifies naturally occurring processes that allow many genes to both slow aging and protect against cancer in the much-studied C. elegans roundworm.
Many of ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
Herpes viruses, though not life-threatening, are usually considered to be embarrassing and annoying. Researchers at the LSU School of Veterinary Medicine, however, are using the virus to potentially fight breast cancer, which, according to the American Cancer Society, is the most common cancer among women.
In fact, excluding cancers of the ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
A group working at the Swiss Institute for Experimental Cancer Research (ISREC) in collaboration with the University of Pavia has discovered that telomeres, the repeated DNA-protein complexes at the end of chromosomes that progressively shorten every time a cell divides, also contain RNA.
This discovery, published in Science Express, calls into ...
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