The popular pain-killer disrupts the way blood platelets react with growths Specifically, it switches off down the enzyme COX-1, reducing their activity This, in turn, denies the malignant masses the ‘nutrients’ needed to expand It has already been credited with helping to reduce heart attack risk, but now it seems that daily doses of...
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Scientists reveal potential way of boosting immune system's memory to fight cancer
Scientists from the University of Southampton have discovered an important way that the immune system can learn to recognize and fight cancers. The team, led by Professor Aymen Al-Shamkhani and funded by Cancer Research UK, has shown that a protein called Akt, is vital for the way the body remembers a cancer it has eradicated....
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Stem cells beat the clock for brain cancer
New research has shown that human skin cells can be transformed into stem cells, and used to hunt down brain cancer Glioblastoma is an aggressive form of brain cancer that kills most patients within two years of diagnosis. In tests on mice last year, a team at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill...
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How breaks in DNA are repaired
The results are significant for gene therapy procedures and for our understanding of cell transformation. A team of researchers from the biology department at TU Darmstadt has discovered that the processes for repairing DNA damage are far more complex than previously assumed. The ends of breaks in the double helix are not just joined, they...
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Alternative theory on how aspirin may thwart cancer
Lab studies point to platelet action as key to anti-tumor effect Studies abound that point to a role for plain old aspirin in keeping deadly cancers at bay. While aspirin is not yet part of mainstream treatment for any cancer, it is recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force for certain adults to help...
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Biggest Breast Cancer Breakthrough: Map Links Breast Cancer Cell Shape And Genes To Disease Outcomes
Cell Shape-Gene Network Can Predict Cancer Outcome Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in London took a closer look at cell shapes in millions of imaging scans of more than 300,000 breast cancer cells and information for about 28,000 genes. They discovered that the changes in cell shape, which can result from physical pressures...
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Dozens of soccer players at the same university diagnosed with CANCER – after playing on 'contaminated' field
Washington state soccer players say playing on artificial turf gave them cancer Made of ground-up rubber tires, the turf fields contain carcinogenic chemicals One soccer coach has a list of 237 players – all whom played on the fake grass A state investigation, however, says there is no risk playing on artificial turf More than 50...
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Study unveils new way to starve tumors to death
Blocking cancer cells’ metabolism may make treatments more effective, less toxic Unlike a healthy cell, a sarcoma cell (above) relies on environmental sources of arginine, an important protein building block. Remove environmental arginine and the cell must begin a process called autophagy, or ‘self-eating,’ to survive. A second hit to its survival pathways then kills...
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Researchers Turn To Artificial Intelligence To Reach New, Previously Unachievable Cancer Outcomes
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been used to gain understanding into the biophysics of cancer. A machine learning platform predicted a trio of reagents capable of generating a one-of-a-kind cancer-like phenotype in tadpoles. The study, conducted by researchers at Tufts University’s School of Arts and Sciences, the Allen Discovery Center at Tufts, and the University of Maryland,...
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UNRAVELING THE MYSTERY OF WHY CANCER CELLS SURVIVE AND THRIVE
Some cancer cells have a trick up their sleeve to avoid cell death: boosting maintenance of telomeres, the protective “end caps” on chromosomes, a research team led by Jackson Laboratory (JAX) Professor Roel Verhaak reports in Nature Genetics. The findings open avenues for functional studies that may yield insight into how to steer cancer cells away from immortalizing...