Can an ancient yellow root spice be good for you? A recent study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences shows curcumin, an active ingredient in turmeric, effectively kills certain cancer cells. While research continues on the role turmeric plays in treating cancer, there may be other health benefits to ingesting the...
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Bioadhesive, wirelessly-powered implant emitting light to kill cancer cells
Scientists from Waseda University, the National Defense Medical College, and the Japan Science and Technology Agency have developed a new bioadhesive, wirelessly powered light-emitting device that could better treat cancers in delicate organs. The newly-developed, bioadhesive, wirelessly-powered implant. Credit: Dr. Toshinori Fujie, Waseda University Conventional photodynamic therapy induces cancer cell death by using photosensitizing agents,...
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Overlooked molecule might be key to how well cancer-fighting CAR-T cells work
Amostly overlooked component of CAR-T cells has a surprisingly strong effect on the cancer-fighting cells’ behavior, scientists reported on Tuesday, including in ways that might affect their safety and efficacy. The component is called the co-stimulatory domain, and the two CAR-T therapies approved last year to treat forms of leukemia and lymphoma — Yescarta and...
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To find and disarm: Scientists develop platform to kill cancer cells
NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY MISIS The new treatment will serve as both diagnosis and treatment of malignant tumors. This breakthrough in the technologies of cancer diagnosis and treatment was made by an interdisciplinary Russian-German collaboration of chemists, physicists, and biologists from NUST MISIS, Lomonosov Moscow State University, Pirogov Russian National Research Medical University (RNRMU), and...
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CAR-T immunotherapies may have a new player
Emerging CAR-T immunotherapies leverage modified versions of patient’s T-cells to target and kill cancer cells. In a new study, published June 28 online in Cell Stem Cell, researchers at University of California San Diego School of Medicine and University of Minnesota report that similarly modified natural killer (NK) cells derived from human induced pluripotent stem cells (iPSCs) also...
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Hitchhiking to kill: Transport of lipid-conjugated floxuridine by natural serum albumin for delivery to cancer cells
How can elimination of therapeutics from the bloodstream or their early enzymatic degradation be avoided in systemic delivery? Chinese scientists have new developed a method to bind an established cancer therapeutic, floxuridine, with natural serum albumin for its transport and delivery to target cancer cells. In the journal Angewandte Chemie, the authors demonstrate the automated synthesis...
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Second ‘don’t eat me’ signal found on cancer cells
Cancer cells. A second biological pathway that signals immune cells not to engulf and kill cancer cells has been identified by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine. An antibody that blocks the “don’t eat me” signal has shown promise as a cancer treatment in animal models and is currently in clinical trials. Combining...
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Study reveals new mechanism used by cancer cells to disarm attacking immune cells
A new study by researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center – James Cancer Hospital and Solove Research Institute (OSUCCC – James) identifies a substance released by pancreatic cancer cells that protects them from attack by immune cells called macrophages. The study found that the substance, called Gdf-15, might be required for the...
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Decongestant ‘highly effective’ at starving cancer cells
Cancer cells. Cancer researchers seeking non-toxic alternatives to harmful chemotherapy are reporting a highly significant result for a humble cold remedy. N-Acetyl cysteine (NAC) is routinely used as a dietary supplement and as a decongestant given to children to ward off a cold. Now, clinical trials in the US indicate the cheap, over-the-counter drug,...
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Cancer Cells Destroyed with Dinosaur Extinction Metal
*Cancer cells can be killed with metal from the asteroid that killed the dinosaurs, thanks to new research from University of Warwick UK and Sun-Yat Sen University in China This is an artist´s impression of a dinosaur *Compound based on iridium kills cancer cells by filling them with deadly version of oxygen when activated by...