All Articles Tagged As: cancer

Stem cells and cancer: Scientists investigate a fine balancing act (4/16/2008)

Professor shows how the mechanisms normally involved in balancing different functions of stem cells may also contribute to cancer ...> Full Article

Researchers find stem cell marker controls two key cancer pathways (4/16/2008)

Researchers have discovered that a gene associated with human breast stem cells can stimulate development of mammary cells by activating two critical cancer pathways ...> Full Article

Cardiff stem cell expertise showcases at national conference (4/12/2008)

Cardiff University research will be showcased at an annual scientific conference celebrating the latest and best in UK stem cell science ...> Full Article

Module map links embryonic stem cells and cancer stem cells (4/12/2008)

A new study suggests that a genetic fingerprint associated with normal embryonic stem cells may be important for the development and function of cancer stem cells ...> Full Article

Gene Therapy Protocol Activates Immune System in Patients with Leukemia (2/13/2008)

A research team at the Rebecca and John Moores UCSD Cancer Center at University of California, San Diego (UCSD) reports that patients with chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) who were treated with a gene therapy protocol began making antibodies that reacted against their own leukemia cells. The study will be published on line the week of February 11-15 in the online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. ...> Full Article

Discovery Of Good - And Bad - Liver Stem Cells Raises Possibility Of New Treatment (2/12/2008)

Many scientists believe up to 40 percent of liver cancer is caused by stem cells gone wild -- master cells in the organ that have lost all growth control. But, despite years spent looking, no one has ever found these liver "cancer stem cells" -- or even normal stem cells in the organ. Until now. ...> Full Article

NYU Medical Center Awarded 1 Million Stem Cell Grant from New York State (1/13/2008)

NYU Medical Center has received a grant of $1 Million from the Empire State Stem Cell Board, which-established in 2007 by Governor Eliot Spitzer-announced its first awards today. The award will be used to supplement funding for work already underway in NYU School of Medicine's Helen and Martin Kimmel Center of Stem Cell Biology, as well as to acquire state-of-the art equipment and to create training programs to attract more researchers to the stem cell field. ...> 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

New Marker To Identify Cancer Stem Cells Discovered (12/16/2007)

Researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center have found a marker that can be used to identify stem cells in breast tumors, suggesting a potential simple test that could help determine the best treatment for breast cancer. ...> Full Article

Gentler Chemotherapy Before Blood Stem Cell Transplant Causes Long-Term Complete Remission in Relapsed Follicular Lymphoma Patients (12/13/2007)

Treating relapsed follicular lymphoma patients with a milder chemotherapy regimen before they receive a blood stem cell transplant from a donor resulted in long-term complete remission for 45 of 47 patients in a clinical trial, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center report at the 49th annual meeting of the American Society of Hematology Meeting in Atlanta. ...> Full Article

New marker identifies cancer stem cells (12/7/2007)

Marker corresponds to worse outcomes, could help determine treatments ...> Full Article

Team Finds Way To Create Cancer Stem Cells (8/14/2007)

MIT achievement could aid cancer research ...> Full Article

Gene Therapy Using Adeno-Associated Virus Linked To Liver Cancer In Mice (8/10/2007)

Researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis have found further evidence linking a method used to deliver gene therapy in humans with the development of liver tumors in mice. ...> Full Article

When Tissue Repair Backfires (7/9/2007)

A new molecular link between inflammation and cancer, discovered through experiments with mice, has revealed how the body's natural repair response to tissue injury can actually spur tumor growth. ...> Full Article

Extracting Eggs From Pre-pubertal Cancer Patients Brings Hope For Future Fertility (7/7/2007)

Scientists in Israel have been able to obtain and freeze eggs from the ovarian tissue of girls as young as 5 years old, the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology was told today (Tuesday 3 July). Dr. Ariel Revel, from the Department of Obstetrics and Gynaecology, Hadassah University Hospital, Jerusalem, Israel, said that the growing number of survivors of childhood cancers meant that such techniques would become increasingly important in preserving fertility in young patients. ...> Full Article

Turning Stem Cells Taken from Fat Tissue into Personalized, Cancer-Targeted Therapeutics (7/5/2007)

Researchers in Slovakia have been able to derive mesenchymal stem cells from human adipose, or fat, tissue and engineer them into "suicide genes" that seek out and destroy tumors like tiny homing missiles. This gene therapy approach is a novel way to attack small tumor metastases that evade current detection techniques and treatments, the researchers conclude in the July 1 issue of Cancer Research, a journal of the American Association for Cancer Research. ...> Full Article

Adult Stem Cells May Have Smarts To Guard Against Cancer (4/20/2007)

Some bewildering behavior seen in the stem cells of muscles has led researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine to an unexpected discovery that could explain why cancer isn’t more common. ...> Full Article

Cancer-Initiating Stem Cells Taking a Larger Role in Cancer Treatment (4/20/2007)

Recent discoveries about the role of stem cells in cancer have altered the landscape of cancer research. With each new study, scientists are learning more about cancer-initiating properties of stem cells at organ sites and throughout the body. Increasingly, stem cells are examined as the cause - and potential target of treatment - for many, if not all, cancers. ...> Full Article