Curing Death by Curing Aging Archives Page 42

New Ingredients in Drug-Like Anti-Aging Products Improve Skin (12/29/2007)

Cosmecueticals, beauty aids that reportedly work like prescription drugs, are providing new ways to treat aging skin. A study recently published in the Journal of Cosmetic Dermatology explores a variety of new ingredients in cosmeceuticals that provide a visibly noticeable improvement in maturing skin. ...> Full Article

New Drug Targets May Fight Tuberculosis and Other Bacterial Infections in Novel Way (12/29/2007)

Research Into 'Virulence Factors' Expands War Against Infectious Disease Beyond Antibiotics ...> Full Article

Breast cancer gene mutation more common in Hispanic, young black women (12/28/2007)

A genetic mutation already known to be more common in Ashkenazi Jewish breast cancer patients is also prevalent in Hispanic and young African-American women with breast cancer, according to one of the largest, multiracial studies of the mutation to date. ...> Full Article

Biomarker could lead to new treatment for cancer and Crohn's disease (12/28/2007)

Cambridge Enterprise Limited, the commercialisation office of the University of Cambridge, has completed a licence agreement with Medarex, Inc. for the potential development of a therapeutic drug to treat cancer and autoimmune diseases. ...> Full Article

Sea cucumber protein used to inhibit development of malaria parasite (12/27/2007)

Scientists have genetically engineered a mosquito to release a sea-cucumber protein into its gut which impairs the development of malaria parasites, according to research out today (21 December) in PLoS Pathogens. Researchers say this development is a step towards developing future methods of preventing the transmission of malaria. ...> Full Article

New Research Tools Suggest Cancer And Other Diseases Are Too Complex For Easy Answers, Researchers Say (12/27/2007)

Scientists who study cancer may be prone to drawing simplistic conclusions from the powerful molecular tools now available because they don't appreciate how complex the data is that is being generated, said a team of Georgetown University Medical Center (GUMC) researchers in the January issue of Nature Reviews Cancer. ...> Full Article

New thermal-imaging technique may help victims of head and neck cancers (12/27/2007)

When University of Chicago head-and-neck cancer researcher Cindy Bajda felt a raised bump on the bottom of her mouth, she'd spent too much time around oral cancer patients to have any doubt as to her diagnosis. ...> Full Article

Researchers Initiate Gene Therapy Trial in Patients with Advanced Skin Cancer (12/26/2007)

Researchers at the Ireland Cancer Center of University Hospitals Case Medical Center are the first in the region to have joined a nationwide clinical trial to evaluate the effectiveness of a gene therapy in patients with advanced melanoma which is aimed to help a patient's own immune system fight their cancer. ...> Full Article

Light powered platinum more targeted and 80 times more powerful than similar cancer treatments (12/25/2007)

Researchers have discovered a new light-activated platinum-based compound that is up to 80 times more powerful than other platinum-based anti-cancer drugs and which can use "light activation" to kill cancer cells in much more targeted way than similar treatments. ...> Full Article

First Look at an Enzyme Target for Antibacterial and Cancer Drugs (12/25/2007)

The veil has finally been lifted on an enzyme that is critical to the process of DNA transcription and replication, and is a prime target of antibacterial and anticancer drugs. Researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (Berkeley Lab) and the University of California (UC) at Berkeley have produced the first three-dimensional structural images of a DNA-bound Type II topoisomerase (topo II) that is responsible for untangling coiled strands of the chromosome during cell division. ...> Full Article

Scientists develop new drug candidate to outflank cancer resistance (12/25/2007)

A new drug candidate first synthesized by scientists in the Medicinal Chemistry Group at the University of Bath has shown promising experimental results against breast and prostate cancer cells and tumours that are resistant to conventional hormone-based treatments. ...> Full Article

Cancer Stem Cells: Know Thine Enemy (12/24/2007)

Stem cells-popularly known as a source of biological rejuvenation-may play harmful roles in the body, specifically in the growth and spread of cancer. Amongst the wildly dividing cells of a tumor, scientists have located cancer stem cells. Physician-scientists from Weill Cornell Medical College are studying these cells with hopes of combating malignant cancers in the brain. ...> Full Article

Aging Gracefully Requires Taking Out The Trash (12/24/2007)

Suppressing a cellular cleanup-mechanism known as autophagy can accelerate the accumulation of protein aggregates that leads to neural degeneration. In an upcoming issue of Autophagy, scientists at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies report for the first time that the opposite is true as well: Boosting autophagy in the nervous system of fruit flies prevented the age-dependent accumulation of cellular damage in neurons and promoted longevity. ...> Full Article

Researchers find link between cellular defense processes, showing how cancer cells survive (12/24/2007)

investigators have discovered that immune system cells that engulf and destroy germs in the body enlist help for this task from a common housekeeping mechanism that most cells use to keep their interiors healthy, a finding that is likely to help researchers understand how the body defends itself against infections and how cancer cells can resist chemotherapy drugs before they have a chance to work. ...> Full Article

New insights into deadly heart rhythm disorder (12/23/2007)

Better ways to identify people at risk for ventricular fibrillation could arise from U-M/SUNY group's work showing universal law of electrical turbulence in the heart ...> Full Article

Microchip-based device can detect rare tumor cells in bloodstream (12/23/2007)

Blood 'biopsy' may provide information to guide treatment planning, monitor response ...> Full Article

High-Fat, High-Carb Meal More Destructive to the Obese (12/23/2007)

Increase in already high free radicals significantly raises heart-attack risk ...> Full Article

Studies New Treatment for Advanced Melanoma (12/22/2007)

researchers are evaluating the safety and effectiveness of Allovectin-7, an investigational treatment for advanced melanoma. ...> Full Article

Heart Attack Risk From Smoking Due to Genetics (12/22/2007)

Heart attacks among cigarette smokers may have less to do with tobacco than genetics. ...> Full Article

Attention Guys - Testicular Cancer Isn't as Rare as You Think (12/22/2007)

Paying closer attention to the look and feel of your testicles could be a lifesaver. ...> Full Article

Researcher helping Estonia develop system for HIV/AIDS (12/22/2007)

A researcher has received a grant from Estonia to develop a program to understand its burgeoning number of HIV/AIDS cases. ...> Full Article

Researchers reveal missing link in a heart disease pathway (12/22/2007)

Scientists have helped characterize a previously unknown link in the chain of biochemical reactions implicated in some forms of heart disease. ...> Full Article

Team Finds a Widely Used Anti-Malarial Drug Prevents Cancer Development (12/22/2007)

Study Offers Proof of Principle for Novel Anti-Tumor Therapy ...> Full Article

Why don't we get cancer all the time? (12/21/2007)

The seemingly inefficient way our bodies replace worn-out cells is a defense against cancer, according to new research. ...> Full Article

Scientists Report Ability to Identify and Repress Breast Cancer Stem Cells in Mouse Tissue (12/21/2007)

An approach based on the manipulation of microRNAs ...> Full Article

National study looks at genetics of COPD (12/21/2007)

The identification of genes and other risk factors that influence the development of chronic obstructive pulmonary disease or COPD are under study at Baylor College of Medicine and the Michael E. DeBakey Veterans Affairs Medical Center. ...> Full Article

Mutant Gene Identified as Villain in Hardening of the Arteries (12/20/2007)

A genetic mutation expands lesions in the aorta and promotes coronary atherosclerosis, more commonly known as hardening of the arteries, according to a study by Yale School of Medicine in Cell Metabolism. ...> Full Article

Researchers Train the Immune System to Deliver Virus that Destroys Cancer in Lab Models (12/20/2007)

An international team of researchers led by Mayo Clinic have designed a technique that uses the body's own cells and a virus to destroy cancer cells that spread from primary tumors to other parts of the body through the lymphatic system. In addition, their study shows that this technology could be the basis for a new cancer vaccine to prevent cancer recurrence. ...> Full Article

Firefly genes allow testing of new therapy against lymphoma (12/20/2007)

Researchers here have figured out a way to use a firefly gene to let them see just how effective a new drug combination actually is against some forms of cancer and its serious complication. ...> Full Article

Molecular 'trip switch' shuts down inflammatory response (12/19/2007)

Like a circuit breaker that prevents electrical wiring from overheating and bringing down the house, a tiny family of three molecules stops the immune system from mounting an out-of-control, destructive inflammatory response against invading pathogens, researchers at the Salk Institute for Biological Studies have found. ...> Full Article