Study Sheds Light On Deadly Childhood Cancer
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 20:29 - http://www.postchronicle.com/A gene involved in cell division also helps fuel a deadly childhood cancer called neuroblastoma and could offer a new way to develop drugs to treat the disease....
Interview With Dr. Melvin Morse--Researcher of the Near Death Experience
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 19:12 - http://www.basilandspice.com/by Kelly Jad'on''Dr. Melvin L. Morse, a top pediatrician, has been identified by Woodword-White's Best Doctors in America From (1997-2006). Dr. Morse has researched near death experiences in...
Antibody-based prognostic test mayn’t detect all breast cancer subtypes
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 18:05 - http://www.entertainmentandshowbiz.com/Dutch researchers have shown that an antibody-based test called CellSearch, which is used to detect circulating breast cancer cells in patients before and during treatment, may not detect all...
Forma Therapeutics sheds secrecy, reveals $25M in financing
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 17:28 - http://www.fiercebiotech.com/Just because the headlines are looking gloomy, though, doesn't mean that individual biotech companies can't shine brightly. Case in point: Forma Therapeutics. The stealth biotech is shedding its...
Top bioresearch breakthroughs for 2008
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 15:00 - http://www.fiercebioresearcher.com/Wired has come up with its closely-watched list of top scientific breakthroughs of the past year, and the life sciences figure prominently on the top-10 countdown.'On the list: A new approach to...
New tests will help advance cancer therapies
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 14:46 - http://www.fiercebioresearcher.com/A group of Canadian scientists has developed new tests that can be used to distinguish between normal, healthy stem cells and cancer-causing stem cells. And they say the tests will be put to use to...
Broad Institute Scientists’ Forma Therapeutics Raises $25M, Aims to Knock Out Underpinnings of Cancer
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 14:15 - http://www.xconomy.com/Forma Therapeutics, a startup company co-founded by scientists at the Broad Institute of Harvard and MIT, has raised $25 million to create drugs that build on research that has yielded clues about...
New founding in cancer cell metastasis new hope for primary cancer
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 13:22 - http://mathaba.net/Little is known about how metastatic cancer cells choose where to relocate but researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found a relationship between a protein and the process....
Two Teens With Lupus Win Spots In The Rose Parade With Kaiser Permanente
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 13:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/Two southern California teens living with lupus will be among the riders aboard the Kaiser Permanente float in the 120th Annual Tournament of Roses Parade on January 1, 2009. Nathalie Gonzales and...
In Breast Cancers With Poor Prognosis Gene Plays Dual Role
Published on Tuesday 06 January 2009 - 13:00 - http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/A new study reveals that the metadherin gene (MTDH) plays a role in both cancer metastasis and resistance to chemotherapy. The research, published by Cell Press in the January 6th issue of the...
