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Science News
September 15, 2007 |
Timeline: From the September 11, 1937, issue Heron in New York Zoo has long lease on life... Super-nova is 500,000,000 times brighter than sun... Ocean bottom shaken in New Zealand region...   |
Science News
November 24, 2001 |
TimeLine: November 21, 1931 Turkeys... Artificial gamma radiation approximates cosmic rays... Sex difference in oxygen need for tissues discovered... |
Chemistry World
November 4, 2011
Phillip Broadwith |
Chemists put finger on the trigger to attack cancer Hydrogen peroxide-triggered release mechanisms could help reduce the side effects of cancer drugs by keeping them safely locked up until they reach the oxidizing environment of cancer cells, say scientists in the US. |
Science News
October 11, 2003 |
From the October 7, 1933, issue Ancient Map Shows How World Looked to Columbus... Better Cancer Treatment May Result From Powerful x-Rays... Deutons Creating Neutrons Promise to Smash Atoms... |
Chemistry World
August 19, 2009
Phillip Broadwith |
Antioxidants could promote cancer Some tumor cells can actually use antioxidants to protect themselves from natural cellular defense mechanisms, enabling them to survive and proliferate. |
Science News
December 2, 2006 |
Timeline: From the November 28, 1936, issue Commonplace transformed into beauty by frost... Behavior of living cells linked to mathematics... |
Science News
July 13, 2002 |
From the July 9, 1932, issue Modernistic Building Shows Achievements of Science... X-Rayed Cells Live Faster; Die of Premature Old Age... Color Photographs Easily Made by New Process... |
American Family Physician
February 1, 2004 |
Penile Cancer What is cancer?... How does my doctor check for cancer?... How is penile cancer treated? |
Science News
January 11, 2003 |
TimeLine: January 7, 1933 Atom building keeps stars shining, says A.A.A.S. Head... Millikan and Compton debate cosmic-ray facts and theories... Growth of plants stimulated by proper x-ray treatment |
Scientific American
January 2009
Charles Q. Choi |
Do White Blood Cells Make Cancer Deadly? The ability to spread underlies the killing power of cancer. The process occurs, John Pawelek thinks, when tumor cells fuse with white blood cells -- an idea that, if right, could yield new therapies |
Science News
September 23, 2006 |
Timeline: From the September 19, 1936, Issue Largest Gaseous Nebula "Found" by New Telescope... Ounce of Oil Covers Eight Acres of Surface... Cancer Explained as Uncontrolled Cell Growth... |
Reactive Reports
Issue 56
Jeffrey Krise |
A Basic Approach to Chemotherapy Chemists have found a way to attack malignant cells with an anticancer drug, while sparing healthy cells. |
Chemistry World
March 16, 2009
Hayley Birch |
Nanodumbbells Target Cancer Cells US scientists have designed nanoparticles that function like 'guided missiles' in the targeted destruction of breast cancer cells. |
Chemistry World
July 28, 2009
Michael Gross |
DNA to direct and switch off chemo Researchers in the US have developed a new approach to cancer chemotherapy using short DNA strands to help target delivery of the drug directly to cancer cells, and 'call it off' should problems arise. |
Science News
October 16, 2004 |
From the October 13, 1934, Issue Scientists Study a Wingless Rooster... Artificial Radioelements for Medicine... Annihilation of Matter Seen as Cause of Cosmic Rays... |
Science News
April 1, 2006 |
From the March 28, 1936, issue Thaw-saturated earth forced Eastern rivers to overflow... Gigantic stellar explosion great event of astronomy... Three new planetary nebulae discovered in Milky Way... |
Chemistry World
July 31, 2012
Fiona McKenzie |
Sorting the good from the bad US scientists have found a way to separate cancerous cells from healthy cells by taking advantage of their adhesion properties. Separating cancer cells for analysis is a critical step for determining the recommended course of treatment for patients. |
Science News
May 13, 2006 |
From the May 9, 1936, Issue Scientists Describe Design of Fortress for Atom Study... New Weapon Against Cancer Possible in Neutron Ray... Scientist Predicts Nature of Communication of Future... |
Smithsonian
March 2004 |
Signal Discovery? A Los Angeles scientist says living cells may make distinct sounds, which might someday help doctors "hear" diseases |
BusinessWeek
June 13, 2005
Arlene Weintraub |
A Boost for Broken Hearts? The Institute of Regenerative Medicine in Barbados is convinced that stem cells from fetuses can repair cardiac damage. |
AskMen.com
Dave Golokhov |
Men And Skin Cancer Men are three times more likely to develop skin cancer than women. While that's not breaking news, scientists have struggled to figure out the reason why men are more susceptible, and there appears to be a breakthrough. |
Scientific American
December 2008
Tim Hornyak |
Turning Back the Cellular Clock: A Farewell to Embryonic Stem Cells? Shinya Yamanaka discovered how to revert adult cells to an embryonic state. These induced pluripotent stem cells might soon supplant their embryonic cousins in therapeutic promise |
Chemistry World
April 13, 2011
Kate McAlpine |
Microrockets aim at cancer diagnostics Researchers at the University of California, San Diego, have made self-propelled microtube rockets that can find and capture cancer cells from blood samples. |
HHMI Bulletin
Aug 2010
Richard Saltus |
Three-Dimensional Cell Cultures Thinking big but starting small, Sangeeta Bhatia is closing in on her ambitious goal: growing human livers in the lab from scratch. |
HHMI Bulletin
Feb 2012
Nicole Kresge |
Now You See It, Now You Don't A disappearing receptor could hold the key to beta-cell growth and insulin production. |
Chemistry World
October 31, 2010
Michael Gross |
Kiss of death for cancer cells Scientists have deciphered the surprising structure of the perforin pore, which delivers the 'kiss of death' to virus-infected cells and cancer cells in the body. |
Chemistry World
February 11, 2013
Helen Potter |
A new system for cancer detection Cancer cells have been found to differ from normal cells in several ways, including the make up of their cell membranes. Cancer-cell membranes have been found to contain more anionic lipids than normal cells, leading to an overall negatively charged cell surface. |
Chemistry World
September 18, 2006
Michael Gross |
Iron Chelates Beat Cancer Cancer cells need more iron than normal body cells to sustain their abnormally rapid growth. Researchers have now identified one particularly potent chelate complex that helps deplete tumors of iron. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2011
Jim Schnabel |
Oxygen on the Brain An ancient cellular program to protect cells when oxygen is low seems crucial for the production of new brain cells. |
Scientific American
August 2007
Thania Benios |
Updates: Whatever Happened to...? Quantum cryptography can be hacked... Lycopene does not appear to prevent prostate cancer as once hoped... Otzi Iceman's cause of death identified... Transplants for diabetes... |
Chemistry World
August 15, 2007
John Bonner |
Chemists Claim Biological Alchemy South Korean chemists say they have turned muscle cells from the sole of a human foot into something akin to stem cells, using a simple molecule called neurodazine. |
Chemistry World
October 7, 2012
David Bradley |
Magnetic nanoparticles zap cancer Nanoparticles can be used as a remote-controlled magnetic death switch to kill cancer cells, according to researchers from Korea. |
Science News
July 31, 2004 |
From the July 28, 1934, Issue Twelve Swamp Dinosaurs Found by Museum Party... Old Violin Makers' Secrets Revealed by x-Ray Analysis... Cancer Caused by Virus Present in Even Normal Cells... |
Scientific American
March 2009
Elaine Schattner |
A Chip against Cancer: Microfluidics Scrutinizes T Cells With just a blood sample, a device could determine whether cancer is about to spread or monitor the progress of treatment |
HHMI Bulletin
Fall 2012
Elise Lamar |
Push and Pull Jennifer Zallen, an HHMI early career scientist at Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, studies how embryonic tissues stretch along an anterior-posterior axis using the fruit fly Drosophila melanogaster as a model system. |
Chemistry World
February 12, 2014
Manisha Lalloo |
Synthetic strategy targets 'undruggable' small RNAs Chemists in the US have found a way to predict small molecules that can target short pieces of RNA involved in some diseases, such as cancer. |
Popular Mechanics
May 14, 2008 |
NASA Spots 'Warm Corpse' of Galaxy's Youngest Supernova: Could It Explain Origins of Life? (With Photos!) NASA announced today that it has found the Milky Way's youngest supernova remnant. |
Chemistry World
April 2, 2009
Michael Gross |
Light-guided hydrogels direct cell growth Researchers in the US have developed a gel-like material whose structural and chemical properties can change in response to laser light |
Science News
July 30, 2005 |
From the July 27, 1935, Issue "Geometry" of Bees is Not Result of Planning... Man-Made Gamma Rays Six Times as Piercing as Nature's... Electrical Device Aids in Measuring Speeds of Cars... |
Chemistry World
July 30, 2007
James Mitchell Crow |
Cell Transplant Hope for Diabetes Sufferers Iron-based 'magnetocapsules' of insulin-producing cells could help doctors use cell transplants to treat type I diabetes. |
Science News
May 3, 2003 |
TimeLine: April 29, 1933 Leaving the nest... Magnet pulls corpuscles out of circulation for study... More dark matter than luminous in universe |
BusinessWeek
December 12, 2005
Michael Arndt |
Cancer Cells With A Death Wish Is Abbott Labs' Stephen Fesik closing in on a way to make cancer cells self-destruct? |
Chemistry World
May 11, 2011
Jon Cartwright |
New radioisotope bodes well for cancer treatment The isotope, terbium-161, emits a number of low-energy electrons upon decay, which should make it useful for treating small tumors. |
The Motley Fool
November 2, 2004
Charly Travers |
Biotech's 5-Baggers: Part 3 Year after year, the hottest biotech companies with investors are those with drugs in development for the treatment of cancer. |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2007
Brian Orelli |
Stem Your Expectations of Stem-Cell Discoveries Making "stem" cells out of skin cells isn't all it's cracked up to be. The recent discovery has a long way to go before it can catch up to the research currently being done with stem cells. |
IEEE Spectrum
July 2007
Suhas Sreedhar |
Plastic Solar Cells Get a Boost by Doubling Up Scientists in Korea and California have invented a new way of boosting the efficiency of cheap plastic solar cells, making them more competitive with traditional silicon solar cells. The key is to make the solar cells in pairs. |
Chemistry World
April 2010 |
Column: The crucible We are getting better at manipulating cells to grow into the tissues we need. Chemical factors are key, says Philip Ball |
BusinessWeek
July 26, 2004
Arlene Weintraub |
The Stem-Cell Flap: Simmer Down Advocates are overstating stem cells' near-term ability to treat grave illnesses. In doing so, they not only distort the science; the hopes they raise among many people who are sick today are also sure to be dashed. |
HHMI Bulletin
May 2010
Sarah C.P. Williams |
Young Again Niche cells can reverse the aging of stem cells. |
Chemistry World
June 9, 2008
Simon Hadlington |
Artificial virus silences genes Scientists in Korea have created an artificial virus that can target the nucleus of cancer cells and knock out specific genes. |
