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Chasing Cancer; New directions in research may finally break the stalemate.
Byline: David H. Freedman (Freedman is co-author of "A Perfect Mess," a book about the benefits of disorganization, to appear in January 2007.)
You've probably never heard of Theodor Boveri , but his insight into cancer might save your life someday. It certainly has scientists buzzing. "Everyone cites Boveri in their papers, and he gets talked about at a lot at conferences," says Peter Sorger, an MIT biologist who studies cancer. The acclaim comes a little late for Boveri; he died in 1915. But a year before that he noted that tumor cells under a microscope showed mix-ups in their chromosomes. These X-shaped blobs of DNA, found in almost every human cell, contain ...
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...point at which a cancer signal reverted to...the July 1 issue of Cancer Research. Identifying...healthy and cancerous cells as a transcription...percent of human cancers, including malignancies...levels, for normal cell function. So, switching...option for treating cancer. "I wanted ...
- Aggressive Cancer Cells.
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- Why cancer cells are addicted to sugar ... and what you can do about it.
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...Akt and promotes cell death in ovarian cancer cells. In fact, ovarian cancer cells are particularly sensitive to cell death caused by glucose destruction...additional research on resveratrol and other cancers. No doubt there will also be more studies...
- TARGETING CANCER CELLS; A small Washington County company is working toward...
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- Tricking cancer cells to destroy themselves. (Malignancy).(Purdue University...
- Magazine article from: USA Today (Magazine) February 1, 2003 700+ words
...system to kill those resistant cancer cells by using our folate-targeted...Researchers have found that certain cancers--among them ovarian cancer and renal cell carcinoma--have high levels...on the surfaces of cancer cells and are responsible for binding...
- Natural-born killers: some cancer cells not only dodge immune cells, they kill...
- Magazine article from: Science News Vergano, Dan February 8, 1997 700+ words
...All of the cancerous cells expressed FasL, whereas healthy skin cells from the same patients...team discovered the cancer's cell-killing capability...bred to have immune cells lacking Fas, developed cancers at a much lower rate...
- Breast cancer cells recycle to escape death by hormonal therapy.
- Magazine article from: Women's Health Weekly October 30, 2008 700+ words
...therapy or you can make the cell eat itself to the point of no return and the cell self-destructs. You...treat some aggressive cancers, prompts cancer cells to die from self digestion...Ceramide is vital but causes cell death at high levels...
