A study led by scientists from Harvard Medical School reveals “hidden” variability in how tumor cells are affected by anticancer drugs, offering new insights on why patients with the same form of cancer can have different responses to a drug. The results, published in Nature Communications on Oct 30, highlight strategies to better evaluate drug effectiveness and...
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UTA study says zinc can halt the growth of cancer cells
Zinc supplements can significantly inhibit the proliferation of esophageal cancer cells, according to a new study co-authored by a University of Texas at Arlington researcher. Previous studies had shown that zinc is essential for maintaining human health and protects the esophagus from cancer. However, it has never been fully understood why zinc has the ability...
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Researchers May Have Discovered a New Way to Kill off Cancer Cells
IN BRIEF Researchers from Duke University’s Cancer Institute have published a study explaining how a modified poliovirus is able to effectively treat cancer patients. They discovered that the virus compels the body’s own immune system to join the fight against the cancer cells. LOCKING ON CANCER CELLS Since 2011, researchers have been conducting clinical trials involving a...
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Molecular nanosubmarines can target and kill specific cancer cells
In 2015, scientists from Rice University revealed they had created light-driven nanosubmarines. These tiny molecular machines were activated by ultraviolet light and based on earlier work from Nobel laureate Bernard Feringa, whose ground-breaking research won the prize for chemistry in 2016. These single-molecule machines have now been shown to be able to target, and drill into, specific...
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Groups of Nanoparticles Powered by a Magnet Team Up to Kill Cancer Cells
Number of ways have been developed that allow nanoparticles to kill cancer cells. Some of these include delivering chemo agents, converting electromagnetic energy beamed into heat, and manipulating with the signaling processes of tumor cells. An international team of researchers is now reporting in journal Theranostics a way of bunching iron oxide particles doped with zinc around tumors and then...
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Vitamin C and antibiotics could be up to 100 TIMES more effective than drugs at killing cancer cells – without the side effects
EXCLUSIVE: The combination starves cancer cells of their fuel, leading to death Vitamin C and the antibiotic are non-toxic with fewer side effects than drugs The vitamin inhibits cancer cells’ energy-making processes, leaving them weak Taking away their final energy source results in the cancer cells starving to death Vitamin C and antibiotics could be...
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Cancer cells disguise themselves by switching off genes, new research reveals
Scientists have uncovered how tumor cells in aggressive uterine cancer can switch disguises and spread so quickly to other parts of the body. In a study published in Neoplasia, researchers at the Washington University School of Medicine created a map showing which genes were switched on and off in different parts of the tumor, providing a...
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Scientists discover mechanism that causes cancer cells to self-destruct
Many cancer patients struggle with the adverse effects of chemotherapy, still the most prescribed cancer treatment. For patients with pancreatic cancer and other aggressive cancers, the forecast is more grim: there is no known effective therapy. A new Tel Aviv University study published last month in Oncotargetdiscloses the role of three proteins in killing fast-duplicating cancer cells...
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Researchers identify interaction among proteins that cause cancer cells to metastasize
Electron microscopic image of a single human lymphocyte. Researchers at Mayo Clinic have identified an interaction among proteins that allows cancer cells to grow and metastasize. They say the discovery may play a role in developing a better understanding of how tumors grow in a variety of malignancies, including breast, prostate, pancreatic, colon, lung...
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Organo-metal compound seen killing cancer cells from inside
Cancer cells seen to be targeted and killed from the inside with metal-based compound discovered by the University of Warwick The compound – Organo-Osmium FY26 – attacks the weakest part of cancer cells. FY26 is 50x more active than metal drugs used in current cancer treatments Unprecedented minute detail of cancer cells seen with nano-imaging...