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Biggest Myths About Food and Cancer

February 12, 2019 /in MEDICINE

The Internet has an abundance of articles and posts about cancer. People want to educate themselves more about the harms and threats that simple everyday things may bring, that can potentially cause cancer.

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Studying Crocodile Blood Could Lead To New Cancer Treatments

January 7, 2019 /in MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS

A new study has shown that extracts from crocodile white blood cells can reduce the growth of human cancer cells. Researchers are looking closer into the matter in hopes of finding novel cancer therapies in the future.

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Virtual Reality Tumors – New Way to Observe Cancer

January 2, 2019 /in MEDICINE, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS

Researchers from Cambridge have a new tool in the fight against cancer. Virtual reality (VR) simulation which can show detailed maps of the cells in a tumor. This way structure can be explored and analyzed from an entirely new perspective. Researchers hope their 3D models of cancer could lead to unexpected breakthroughs.

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Cancer-Fighting Cure Could Hide in the Last Pill You Would Think Of

April 18, 2018 /in MEDICINE

The class of drugs currently prescribed to treat male erectile dysfunction has the potential to be repurposed for use in cancer treatment. Cancer specialists would like to prescribe existing medications like Viagra and Cialis since they are affordable and approved for use, thus save significant research money otherwise spent on expensive drug discovery.

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Genetically Modified Chickens Lay Cancer-Fighting Eggs

October 18, 2017 /in MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS, MEDICINE

Researchers from Japan have bred genetically engineered chickens that lay eggs carrying interferon beta, a protein known to fight diseases like cancer and hepatitis. The method could eventually cut the cost of producing this important cancer-fighting agent by 90 percent.

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Exposure to Artificial Light Linked to Cancer

August 30, 2017 /in MEDICINE

Night shift work has been consistently associated with higher risk for cardiovascular disease, cancer, insomnia, depression and irritable bowel syndrome. Exposure to light at night is not only leaving scars on people’s well being but is affecting wildlife and entire ecosystems, it wastes energy, money and gives astronomers headaches.

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Swiss Scientists Use Viruses to put T Cells in Cancer-Fighting Overdrive

June 14, 2017 /in RESEARCH INSIGHTS, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS

Scientists from the University Of Geneva (UNIGE) and the University of Basel have created artificial viruses that can be used to target cancer. This virus is fashioned to act as an alarm for the immune system and instigate killer T cells to fight the tumour.

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New “Cancer Vaccine” Very Promising, Clinical Study Shows

April 20, 2017 /in MEDICINE, MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS, RESEARCH INSIGHTS

Researchers at Harvard University developed an effective personalized cancer vaccine that seems to have prevented early tumour relapse in 12 skin cancer patients. The vaccine targeted 20 tumour-specific proteins unique to each of the patients enrolled, keeping all free of cancer over 2 years after the trial.

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New Pre-Chemo Breast Cancer Therapy Destroys Tumours in Just 11 Days

March 23, 2017 /in MOLECULAR BIOLOGY AND GENETICS, MEDICINE

A new breast cancer drug combination significantly shrunk and eliminated tumours in 28% of women tested in just 11 days. The novel treatment involves a combination of pre-chemotherapy drugs lapatinib and trastuzumab that target HER2-positive tumours.

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Science Paving Way for Cancer Screening Breath Tests

March 16, 2017 /in MEDICINE

British scientists developed a revolutionary method for screening cancer using breath-analyzing technology. In a preliminary study involving more than 300 patients the instrument was capable of diagnosing those with esophageal and stomach cancer with 85% accuracy.

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