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New Tumor Suppressor for Lung Cancer Identified
Cancer and cell biology experts at the (UC) have identified a new tumor suppressor that may help scientists develop more targeted drug therapies to combat lung cancer.The study, led by Jorge Moscat, PhD, appears in the journal Molecular...
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Breast Cancer Gene Linked to Disease Spread
A team of researchers at Princeton University and The Cancer Institute of New Jersey has identified a gene that is switched on in 30 to 40 percent of all breast cancer patients, spreading the disease, resisting traditional chemotherapies,...
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Prolonged Nevirapine in Breast-Fed Babies Prevents HIV Infection
Babies born to HIV-positive mothers and given the antiretroviral drug nevirapine through the first six weeks of life to prevent infection via breast-feeding are at high risk for developing drug-resistant HIV if they get infected anyway, a...
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Scientists Pull ProteinEURs Tail to Curtail Cancer
When researchers look inside human cancer cells for the whereabouts of an important tumor-suppressor, they often catch the protein playing hooky, lolling around in cellular broth instead of muscling its way out to the cells membranes and...
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Medication Errors Common in Outpatient Cancer Treatment
Seven percent of adults and 19 percent of children taking chemotherapy drugs in outpatient clinics or at home were given the wrong dose or experienced other mistakes involving their medications, according to a new study led by Kathleen E.
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Key Gene Tied to High Blood Pressure Found
Researchers at the have identified a common gene variant that appears to influence people's risk of developing high blood pressure, according to the results of a study being published online in the Proceedings of the National Academy of...
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FDA Approves New Prostate Cancer Drug
WASHINGTON (AP) - Federal regulators on Monday said they have approved the first new drug to treat prostate cancer in four years.The injectable treatment from privately held Ferring Pharmaceuticals fights the cancer by lowering levels of...
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Gene Therapy Reversed Heart Damage in Heart Failure
Long-term gene therapy resulted in improved cardiac function and reversed deterioration of the heart in rats with heart failure, according to a recent study conducted by researchers at s Center for Translational Medicine.The rats were...
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Scientists Isolate Genes that Made 1918 Flu Lethal
By mixing and matching a contemporary flu virus with the Spanish flu researchers have identified a set of three genes that helped underpin the virulence of the 1918 virus.A team led by University of Wisconsin-Madison virologists Yoshihiro...
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Safe New Therapy for Genetic Heart Disease
A new clinical trial suggests that long-term use of candesartan, a drug currently used to treat hypertension, may significantly reduce the symptoms of genetic heart disease.The related report appears in the The Journal of Molecular...
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