New Target Found for Stem Cell, Cancer Treatment
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A new discovery about a cellular control mechanism could lead to drugs for both stem cell-driven tissue regeneration and cancer. American researchers at Duke University Medical Center in Durham, North Carolina
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Scientists have identified a cardiac stem cell that could be the basis for new heart therapies
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Scientists discover a new protein they believe could help develop much more effective medicines.
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Scientists have discovered a new type of embryonic stem cell in mice and rats that should speed up research into regenerative medicine and help in the hunt for cures to a range of diseases.
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Scientists say they may be able to make cancer drugs target tumours by using ultra-violet light to activate them.
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WEDNESDAY, Feb. 14 (HealthDay News) -- Researchers have discovered that a gene that triggers the growth of stem cells during early brain development is also key to the growth of deadly adult brain tumors called gliomas.
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The discovery of cancer stem cells is just one result of the increasing scientific attention being paid to a once-unheralded corner of biology: the apparently deep connections between cancer and stem cells.
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Researchers in Singapore have worked out a way to kill intestinal stem cells that may develop into colorectal cancer, the second largest cause of cancer related deaths in western countries.
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US researchers have found a way to use an antibiotic to correct a flaw in cancer cells that allows them to avoid the normal death process.
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Stem cells, which are believed to hold great medical promise, also play a lead role in fuelling the formation and growth of brain tumours.
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A new gene therapy causes the bladder to act like a &quot;bioreactor&quot; and secrete an anticancer agent that has proven to fight human tumors.
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Scientists from Boston&#39;s Dana-Farber Cancer Institute are hoping to garner new methods of treating skin cancer from studying the ageing processes that turn a person&#39;s hair grey.
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Researchers in Singapore have worked  out a way to kill intestinal stem cells that may develop into  colorectal cancer, the second largest cause of cancer related  deaths in western countries.
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The effectiveness of therapy for advanced breast cancer can be rapidly predicted by an analysis of the level of cancer cells in the patient's blood, according to a study.
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British researchers have identified the cancer stem cells that spawn tumors in the most common form of childhood leukemia, and said on Thursday it provided a "bull's eye" target for new drugs.
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Scientists have shown that a common antibiotic can turn off cancer cells in mice, offering hope of new treatments for cancer patients.
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HOUSTON - Stress response proteins present on the outside of cancer cells offer a promising target for a novel drug &quot;guidance system,&quot; say researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.