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Chemistry World April 10, 2008 Sarah Houlton	Radiotherapy Side-Effects Suppressed A new drug being developed by scientists at Cleveland BioLabs (CBLI) in the US may hold the key to protecting healthy cells from the effects of radiotherapy during cancer treatment.
Reactive Reports Issue 46 David Bradley	Oily Solution to Breast Cancer Potent new weapons in the fight against breast cancer could be developed by combining the commonly used intravenous anesthetic and sedative propofol with omega-3.
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.
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.
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 Aug 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	The Goldilocks of Cells Too much or too little cell death can lead to disease. Scientists are learning how to find the range that's just right.
Chemistry World April 11, 2008 Lewis Brindley	Super Cells Made with 'Inorganic Armor' Chemists in China have coated living cells with egg-like shells, granting them a wide range of new properties.
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.
Chemistry World January 26, 2011 Anna Watson	Channelling deeper to target breast cancer US scientists have developed a model of the breast ductal system that could be used to discover abnormal cells or deliver drugs at locations further along the ducts than other techniques. The model fits on a slide, enabling on-chip experiments.
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.
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
Chemistry World October 9, 2012 Elinor Hughes	A cancer treatment that goes further A cancer treatment that uses titanium dioxide nanoparticles to kill tumor cells has been given a sound revamping by researchers in Japan.
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The Motley Fool November 9, 2004 Charly Travers	Are Stem Cells a Rule Breaker? Does the science offer real hope or just hype? Biotech investors take on enough risk in the normal course of drug development that they do not need to worry about whether or not the underlying technology even works.
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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.
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.
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Chemistry World October 23, 2011 David Bradley	Clicking Together Cultural Niches Researchers in the US have made three-dimensional hydrogels that are not only compatible with living cells but can be tuned to create specialist growing environments - culture niches - for studying cell function.
HHMI Bulletin May 2012 Nicole Kresge	Reduce and Recycle According to investigator Beth Levine, cells break down cellular junk to get extra energy, thereby cleaning house while you exercise.
Scientific American March 2007 Alison Snyder	Sight for Sore Eyes Having generated a cell source and overcome the safety concerns associated with transplanting stem cells, researchers still face possibly their biggest challenge: showing that the transplanted photoreceptors wire up to other neurons that eventually connect to the optic nerves.
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 February 28, 2013 Andy Extance	Chemical transport defines 'Goldilocks' cell size A US team has suggested molecular movement as an answer to the question of why cells are the size they are. A question that they say 'still awaits an answer from first principles'.
HHMI Bulletin February 2011 Sarah C.P. Williams	Releasing the Brakes on Cell Fate Converting one cell type directly into another is a kind of modern-day alchemy, an ultimate goal in biological research. But unlike turning base metals into gold, changing a cell's identity is feasible, new research shows.
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 June 4, 2008 John Bonner	Fireflies make light work of tumours Cancer researchers can see how effective new chemotherapy drugs are at destroying tumours by using the light that causes fireflies to glow in the dark.
Chemistry World April 11, 2006 Jon Evans	Nanotechnology Tackles Chemotherapy Chemists and medical researchers have developed nanoparticles that target chemotherapy drugs directly at tumours. The researchers claim that the same technique could be used to develop nanoparticle-based treatments for a wide range of other diseases.
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Richard Saltus	T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system.
Chemistry World January 17, 2011 Laura Howes	Nanoparticle divides to conquer Scientists have made a nanoparticle that breaks up into smaller units once it reaches its target, allowing it to penetrate deeper into tumour tissue and deliver treatment more effectively.
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 October 31, 2012 Ian Le Guillou	A cell for a cell If you ever need to isolate a single bacterial cell, why not build it a prison cell? This is the approach that colleagues from Sandia National Laboratories, US, have taken. Using multi-photon lithography, they can construct four walls and a roof around a single cell in just over a minute.
Chemistry World August 11, 2011 Simon Hadlington	Getting to the Core of a Tumour for Drug Study Researchers have devised new a way to test how well drugs penetrate the low-oxygen core of solid tumors.
Chemistry World July 2, 2013 Sonja Hampel	Thalidomide teams-up with turmeric to kill myeloma cells Cancer researchers in the US and China have combined the turmeric spice pigment curcumin and the drug thalidomide to create hybrid compounds that can kill multiple myeloma cells.
Scientific American June 2008 Melinda Wenner	How Cells Make Use of Random Biochemical Reactions New studies reveal how cells exploit biochemical randomness.
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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.
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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.
Chemistry World June 19, 2013 James Urquhart	Goeey secret of naked mole rat's cancer resistance revealed The p16 gene provides naked mole rats with an early contact inhibition mechanism that causes cells to stop dividing at much lower densities, compared with mouse cells. Their cells secrete a very high molecular mass form of a molecule called hyaluronan.
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.
Chemistry World February 13, 2006	Nanoparticles Detect Cell Suicide Plans Researchers have developed a nanotechnological assay for detecting programmed cell death. The technique is effective in cell cultures, they report, and might eventually be used in humans.
Chemistry World March 8, 2011 Jennifer Newton	Measuring cells' oxygen levels with PEBBLEs Scientists in Germany have developed a strategy to visualise oxygen concentrations in cells to better understand its role in biological reactions such as metabolism.
Chemistry World November 13, 2012 Rachel Cooper	Detecting cancer cells and parasites Scientists in Denmark have designed a new sensor to detect cells that over-express folate receptors, including cancer cells. The sensor consists of an electrochemical platform composed of graphene and peptide nanotubes with folic acid.
Chemistry World December 2, 2010 James Urquhart	Micro organ system to test cancer drugs Japanese researchers have created an organ-on-a-chip system that simultaneously tests how liver, intestine and breast cancer cells respond to cancer drugs.
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