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Scientists Find Leukemia’s Surroundings Key to its Growth

By Guest PostApril 2, 2016Healthcancer seed, chemotherapy, growth, lauren ehrlich, leukemia, lymphoblastic leukemia, radiation, surroundings key, t all

AUSTIN, Texas — Researchers at The University of Texas at Austin have discovered that a type of cancer found primarily in children can grow only when signaled to do so by other nearby cells that are noncancerous. The finding, published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, contributes to a growing body of research that implicates the environment around a cancer in its spread — an area of study that holds promise for new alternatives to treat the disease. (more…)

UCLA scientists test new strategy that could help fight ovarian cancer

By Guest PostMarch 26, 2016Healthcancer therapy, cell death, guardian of genome, gynecologic tumors, kill cancer cells, ovarian cancer, ovarian cancer cells, protein fibers

Approach borrows from technique of inhibiting protein fibers that cause Alzheimer’s and Parkinson’s diseases

UCLA scientists have developed a promising novel method to treat gynecologic tumors. The approach focuses on a protein called p53, which is commonly mutated in women who have high-grade serous ovarian cancer, the deadliest form of reproductive cancer. In many women with the disease, the cancer is very advanced by the time it is diagnosed and is therefore difficult to treat. (more…)

Borreliose: Übertragung durch Mückenstich?

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2016Health, Natureborreliose, christian melaun, durch, europa, gemeine holzbock, ixodes ricinus, kreisrunde, lyme borreliose, mueckenstich, sina zotzmann, sven klimpel, uebertragung

Senckenberg-Wissenschaftler haben erstmalig Borrelien in deutschen Stechmücken nachgewiesen. Die drei identifizierten Arten der Bakterien können beim Menschen die Multisystemerkrankung Lyme-Borreliose auslösen. In ihrer kürzlich im Fachjournal „Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases“ veröffentlichten Studie zeigen die Forschenden außerdem, dass die Krankheitserreger die Umwandlung der Mückenlarve zur Puppe und schließlich zum erwachsenen Tier überleben. Auch wenn die Mücken potentielle Borreliose-Vektoren sein können, spielen sie nach derzeitigem Erkenntnisstand höchstens eine untergeordnete Rolle bei der Übertragung der Krankheitserreger. (more…)

Drug curbs marijuana use, but with tough side effects

By Guest PostMarch 25, 2016Healthdrug, marijuana, robert miranda, side effects, topamax

Doctors have no approved medicine to help treat marijuana dependence and abuse, but in small new clinical trial topiramate reduced the amount of cannabis heavy smokers used when they lit up. The results also show, however, that many volunteers couldn’t tolerate the drug’s side effects. (more…)

Tuberculosis Study Launched, Powered By Citizen Scientists on IBM’s World Community Grid

By Guest PostMarch 24, 2016Health, Technologyhelp stop tb, ibm, project, tuberculosis

Crowdsourced research project led by University of Nottingham will help scientists better understand and address one of world’s deadliest diseases

ARMONK, NY & NOTTINGHAM, UK – 24 Mar 2016: IBM’s World Community Grid and scientists at the University of Nottingham are launching a study to address tuberculosis, one of the world’s most deadly diseases. It is expected that hundreds of thousands of volunteers will donate vast computing resources to aid this effort facilitated by IBM. (more…)

New test may improve diagnosis, treatment of gastrointestinal cancers

By Guest PostMarch 23, 2016Healthcancerous cells, cdk2na, ctcs, daniel catenacci, diagnosis, gastrointestinal cancers, irving waxman, new test, p16, smad4, tp53, treatment, tumor suppressor genes

University of Chicago researchers have developed a method to diagnose pancreatic cancer earlier in patients. By collecting samples from the portal vein—which carries blood from the gastrointestinal tract, including from the pancreas, to the liver—physicians can learn far more about a patient’s pancreatic cancer than by relying on peripheral blood from a more easily accessed vein in the arm. (more…)

The Gift of Life: How a daughter’s generosity allowed a mother’s love to live on

By Guest PostMarch 20, 2016Health, Mediaann baker pepe, blood cell dna, gift of life, lois frane, terminal breast cancer, whry

One of Lois Frane’s last wishes embraced life and hope.

Stricken with terminal breast cancer, just weeks before her death at the age of 62, she allowed doctors to draw her blood and bank it so that someone in the future might benefit from the genetic information encoded in the blood cell DNA. (more…)

Algorithm helps analyze neuron images

By Guest PostMarch 17, 2016Health, Sciencealgorithm, analyze, kwang min kim, neuron images, tayhas palmore

Researchers from Brown have come up with a new approach to analyzing images of neurons taken from microscopes. The Neuron Image Analyzer uses new techniques to pick out delicate neuron structures, helping scientists better assess the growth of cells. (more…)

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