IT’S a heavy price to pay for a sweet tooth. Researchers have tricked glucose-eating cancer cells into consuming a sugar that essentially poisons them – it leaves a... Read more
The result is that only cancer cells are affected by the light-activation Besides surgery, chemotherapy and radiation are the foundation of modern day cancer treatment. Although effec... Read more
We’ve previously looked at the development of cancer treatments that deliver drugs directly into cancer cells before releasing their chemotherapeutic payload to reduce the damage done... Read more
Diagnostic Network Incorporated Into Human Cells Researchers led by ETH professor Yaakov Benenson and MIT professor Ron Weiss have successfully incorporated a diagnostic biological “co... Read more
Stanford University School of Medicine researchers have identified a compound that attacks the Achilles’ heel of certain cancer cells by depriving them of their energy source, the suga... Read more
U.S. researchers have discovered a compound that can kill breast cancer stem cells Read more
Image via Wikipedia Not many things are tougher than dealing with a diagnosis of cancer. But often the protracted wait for biopsy results, and the uncertainty surrounding them, can be excruc... Read more
Early detection of lung cancer is vital for increasing a patient’s survival rate and to prescribe the best form of treatment. Now New York researchers have developed an early detection metho... Read more
Image via Wikipedia Using an off-the-shelf digital camera, Rice University biomedical engineers and researchers from the University of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center have created an inexp... Read more