Distinguishing cancer cells using fractal geometry offers faster diagnosis
Photo: Rum Bucolic Ape/Flickr Fractals are non-regular geometric shapes that have the same degree of non-regularity on all scales. Fractals are ...
Tag: cancer
Going to the root of cancer fatality: metastasis
It's not the cancer tumor itself that kills people, but rather the spread of cancer cells is what ultimately may ...
New nano carrier performs both diagnosis and drug delivery to cancer cells
Researchers at University of Cincinnati have developed an unique all-in-one nanostructure: it can both diagnose cancer cells and deliver its ...
Veggie-based chemical protects against lethal radiation exposure
Researchers at Georgetown University Medical Center have found that a chemical compound derived from cruciferous vegetables such as cabbage, cauliflower and broccoli has ...
Girls who eat peanut butter 39% less likely to develop benign breast cancer in adulthood
A new study made by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis and Harvard Medical School found that girls ages ...
Married people are more likely to survive cancer
A Harvard longitudinal study that looked at 734,889 people who were diagnosed with cancer between 2004 and 2008 found that married ...
Cancer vaccine with 50% regression rate in mice enters clinical trial
A cross-disciplinary team of scientists at Harvard that developed a novel type of vaccine for treating melanoma - the most ...
Combination of common kitchen spice and anti-nausea medication effectively kills cancer cells
In a preclinical study recently published by the journal Organic & Biomolecular Chemistry, researchers combined structural features from anti-nausea drug ...
Smart drug delivery via microcapsules could lead to safe cancer tumor treatment
Today, cancer is typically treated through highly invasive, painful and low efficiency treatments. Doctors resect the tumors, do radiation therapy, ...
Only 6% of Marijuana research studies medical benefits, says Dr. Sanjay Gupta
Dr. Sanjay Gupta is an established neurosurgeon, but you all might know him better as CNN's chief medical correspondent through the ...
‘Sniffing’ cancer: device detects cancer odors in urine
A while ago, ZME Science reported on some mind blowing research in which dogs were trained to literally sniff lung ...
Genetically engineered virus kills liver cancer and significantly prolongs life
Researchers have developed a gene engineered vaccinia virus JX-594 - one of the pox viruses - that selectively kills cancer cells ...
Gold nanoparticles show new way to annihilate lymphoma cells without chemotherapy
How do you annihilate lymphoma cells without any chemotherapy or drugs at all? Simply by starving it of the thing ...
Detecting biomarkers in urine could allow for earlier cancer diagnosis
By detecting specific biomarkers (proteins) produced by cancer cells, physicians can diagnose a tumor, however these are so diluted in ...
Imaging cancer in real time hints when its most vulnerable
A surgical implant allows for real-time observations of the spread and growth of cancer cells in a mouse. (c) AAAS ...
Redheads may have more fun, but are more prone to cancer
Researchers have shown that it's genes, and not the Sun which increases the risk of melanoma in redheads. Doctors ...
Green tea not only good for preventing cancer – but also for slowing it down
Green tea has some absolutely remarkable properties: it has a swarm of antioxidants, it is good for preventing a huge ...
Beating cancer by making it forget what it is [TED VIDEO]
(c) DANA SMITH Dr. Jay Bradner, a physician and chemical biologist at the Dana-Farber Cancer Institute in Boston, makes beating cancer sound ...
Drug used for skin cancer might provide remarkable results for Alzheimer’s patients
Researchers report that after testing on lab mice an FDA-approved drug, used as treatment for skin cancer, that significant improvements ...
New treatment kills cancer cells with near infrared light
Cancer is currently responsible for 13% of all worldwide deaths, and although remarkable progress has been made in treating this ...
Spinal implant causes cancer, medical company tries to cover it up
Medtronics is a medical tech behemoth worth $15 billion. Among other cutting edge medical tech and R&D SciFi prototypes, the ...
Anti-cancer virus shows promise
An engineered virus injected directly in the patient's blood has shown some remarkable promise in targeting and destroying cancer cells, ...
Lung cancer may be detected with a cheek swab
It is always better to prevent than to treat, but when you have no other choice but treatment, the absolute ...
Photograph of nanobots killing off cancer
Take a really good look at this picture; you may just be looking at the very thing that will defeat ...
Just a single cigarette has very harmful effects
It may seem hard to believe, but even smoking a single cigarette has really bad effects on you, especially if ...
Bioengineered proteins: Trial confirms new way to tackle cancer
The war on cancer is more intense than ever, and it's taking place on many, many fronts. We've seen the ...
Of Trojan Horses and miracle drugs
When Oscar was diagnosed with a very aggresive form of cancer called anal sac adenocarcinoma, his days seemed numbered - ...
Mini-“submarine” will be able to combat cancer within 3 years
Normal 0 false false false MicrosoftInternetExplorer4 The craziest futuristic ideas from movies seem to become reality one after another even ...
