Curing Death by Curing Aging Archives Page 6

Prostate cancer vaccines more effective with hormone therapy (7/14/2008)

Among patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer, the addition of hormone therapy following vaccine treatment improved overall survival compared with either treatment alone or when the vaccine followed hormone treatment ...> Full Article

Study reveals a new function for an old enzyme in fatal childhood disease (7/13/2008)

The lack of a single protein usually thought of as a run-of-the-mill enzyme that helps to recycle molecules in cells causes an incurable and often fatal disease of children ...> Full Article

Sourdough Bread Has Most Health Benefits, Prof Finds (7/13/2008)

Not all bread is created equal. The type of toast you eat for breakfast can affect how your body responds to lunch ...> Full Article

Single-nucleotide polymorphisms do not substantially improve risk prediction for breast cancer (7/13/2008)

Recently identified genetic markers, called single nucleotide polymorphisms, that are associated with a small but statistically significant increase in the risk of breast cancer do not appear to substantially improve the accuracy of existing models that use clinical factors to predict an individual's risk ...> Full Article

Discovery of key malaria proteins could mean sticky end for parasite (7/13/2008)

Researchers have identified a key mechanism that enables malaria-infected red blood cells to stick to the walls of blood vessels and avoid being destroyed by the body's immune system ...> Full Article

Researchers discover mechanism that explains how cancer enzyme winds up on ends of chromosomes (7/13/2008)

have shown a mechanism that explains how two essential components of human telomerase-normally active only in early prenatal development but turned back on during cancer growth-are "recruited" from distinct sites in the cell to the telomere, an area at the end of a chromosome that normally protects it from destruction. ...> Full Article

Coping with 'chemo brain' (7/12/2008)

Study to look at effects of chemotherapy on brain function of breast cancer survivors ...> Full Article

Researchers Identify Cancer Preventive Properties in Common Dietary Supplement (7/12/2008)

Early laboratory research has shown that resveratrol, a common dietary supplement, suppresses the abnormal cell formation that leads to most types of breast cancer ...> Full Article

Researchers say popular fish contains potentially dangerous fatty acid combination (7/12/2008)

Tilapia low in omega-3s, high in omega-6s ...> Full Article

Herceptin targets breast cancer stem cells (7/12/2008)

HER2 gene causes cancer stem cells to multiply, spread ...> Full Article

Researchers locate and image prostate cancer as it spreads to lymph nodes (7/12/2008)

Discovery may lead to more effective diagnostic and therapeutics ...> Full Article

New treatment approach promising for lymphoma patients in the developing world (7/11/2008)

Preliminary results suggest that patients with aggressive non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in the developing world might benefit from a modified chemotherapy regimen ...> Full Article

New Device Shines Light on Disease-Causing Molecules (7/11/2008)

An engineer is developing light-based technique sensitive enough to detect a single disease molecule ...> Full Article

Can recycling be used to treat cancer? (7/11/2008)

New research suggests that the cellular recycling might be useful for battling cancer ...> Full Article

Trans-fatty acids and insulin sensitivity (7/11/2008)

Dietary study in rats suggests that trans-fats do not increase the risk of insulin resistance and diabetes ...> Full Article

Researchers crack final part of the immune system code (7/11/2008)

Researchers have developed models of neural networks that make it possible to simulate how the body protects itself from disease and predict the immune system's access codes ...> Full Article

Long-term study of middle-aged mice shows (7/10/2008)

Resveratrol improves health and mimics some benefits of dietary restriction ...> Full Article

Protein thought to promote cancer instead functions as a tumor suppressor, researchers report (7/10/2008)

A protein previously thought to promote colorectal cancer instead suppresses the growth of human cancer cells in culture ...> Full Article

Liver protein associated with type 2 diabetes in older adults (7/10/2008)

The presence of a protein expressed by the liver which inhibits insulin action may identify individuals more likely to develop type 2 diabetes ...> Full Article

Research scientists reveal key structure from ebola virus (7/10/2008)

Breakthrough findings point to targets for drugs and vaccines ...> Full Article

Pandemic mutations in bird flu revealed (7/10/2008)

Scientists have discovered how bird flu adapts in patients, offering a new way to monitor the disease and prevent a pandemic ...> Full Article

The potential epidemic of type 2 diabetes in young adults (7/9/2008)

researcher says full impact of childhood obesity epidemic has yet to be seen, but may lead to greater numbers of young adults with type 2 diabetes ...> Full Article

Researchers find molecule that kills kidney cancer cells (7/9/2008)

Kidney cancer patients generally have one option for beating their disease: surgery to remove the organ. ...> Full Article

How the malaria parasite hijacks human red blood cells (7/9/2008)

Research has uncovered an arsenal of proteins produced by the malaria parasite that allows it to hijack and remodel human red blood cells, leaving the oxygen-carrying cells stiff and sticky. Those effects on the blood cells play a major role in the development of malaria ...> Full Article

Antibody dual role discovery illuminates immune response (7/9/2008)

Researchers have found that antibodies - the immune system's frontline fighters - also play an unexpected behind-the-scenes role in kick starting the body's immune response. ...> Full Article

Researchers Identify Potential New Drug Candidates to Combat 'Bird Flu' (7/8/2008)

Researchers have isolated more than two dozen promising and novel compounds from which new "designer drugs" might be developed to combat bird flu ...> Full Article

Treatment delays result in poor outcomes for men with breast cancer (7/8/2008)

Men who develop breast cancer are often not treated until the disease has spread to the point that treatment becomes difficult ...> Full Article

Overweight, insulin resistant women at greater risk of advanced breast cancer diagnosis (7/8/2008)

Women who have risk factors commonly associated with Type 2 diabetes also have much greater odds of being diagnosed with an advanced breast cancer ...> Full Article

Counting tumor cells in blood predicts treatment benefit in prostate cancer (7/8/2008)

Counting the number of tumor cells circulating in the bloodstream of patients with castration-resistant prostate cancer can accurately predict how well they are responding to treatment ...> Full Article

The benefits of green tea in reducing an important risk factor for heart disease (7/7/2008)

More evidence for the beneficial effect of green tea on risk factors for heart disease has emerged in a new study ...> Full Article