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Pharmaceutical Executive February 1, 2007 Bradley Thompson |
Virus as Viable Drug Coincidence or phenomena? The reovirus is Mother Nature's own cancer-killer. |
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. |
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. |
The Motley Fool July 30, 2007 Brian Orelli |
Another Blow to Gene Therapy The FDA shuts down a clinical trial, tripping up Targeted Genetics and possibly its competitors. A subject in the trial of their gene therapy arthritis medication died shortly after taking the drug. |
AskMen.com Jacob Franek |
New Cancer Therapies As cancer research explodes, the availability of new and innovative interventions is expanding almost daily. |
Chemistry World September 5, 2013 Emma Stoye |
Raman-based imaging takes guesswork out of brain surgery A new technique that color-codes cancerous and healthy brain cells according to their chemistry could help surgeons remove all traces of brain tumors while minimizing damage to sensitive tissues. |
Chemistry World March 4, 2011 Elinor Richards |
Laser treatment for late-stage cancer Scientists from China, the US and Peru claim to have successfully treated late-stage breast cancer patients using laser immunotherapy to stimulate patients' own immune systems to fight the cancer. |
Popular Mechanics September 2006 Ben Harder |
Seeking Immunity Pathogens like West Nile virus show no respect for borders. But a new class of vaccines may soon keep them in check. |
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. |
Managed Care June 2007 Thomas Morrow |
Dendritic Cell Vaccine Hits FDA Roadblock Questions about study design and analysis prompted the FDA to postpone action on Provenge, a treatment for advanced prostate cancer. |
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. |
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 |
Scientific American January 2009 Melinda Wenner |
Does Herpes Cause a Form of Sen. Edward Kennedy s Brain Cancer? New evidence points to a link between the herpesvirus and the deadly cancer glioblastoma |
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. |
The Motley Fool June 29, 2011 Brian Orelli |
4 Immunotherapies to Watch Just don't go all-in. |
Wired August 2003 Jennifer Kahn |
The End of Cancer (As we Know it) Diagnosis. Chemotherapy. Radiation. Slow painful death. No more. A new era of cancer treatment is dawning. Meet three scientists who are using the revelations of the Human Genome Project to reshape medicine. |
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 November 21, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Side-Effect-Free Chemotherapy Scientists have now developed an enzyme with the potential to eliminate the extreme fatigue, sickness and hair loss that result from this cell damage and strike fear into the hearts of cancer patients. |
The Motley Fool August 9, 2010 Luke Timmerman |
Kaleetan Seeks to Stand on Dendreon's Shoulders Kaleetan Pharmaceuticals tries to improve upon Dendreon's breakthrough cancer drug. |
Chemistry World November 23, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Bacteria That Help Fight Cancer Scientists have given a new meaning to the term `friendly bacteria' by discovering a bacterial protein that helps treat cancer. |
Pharmaceutical Executive June 1, 2007 |
Thoughtleader: Stephen Sherwin, Cell Genesys Cell Genesys has been able to raise enough capital to gamble on what it CEO believes could be the future's most promising therapies, including gene activation, immunotherapy, and oncolytic virus therapy. |
The Motley Fool May 21, 2007 Mike Havrilla |
Allos Aligned for Success With two drugs that both sport reasonable chances of positive clinical data and FDA approval, biotech investors should take a look at Allos -- before any potential good news rolls in. |
Chemistry World January 25, 2010 Hayley Birch |
Stabilising RNAs enhances gene silencing in tumours South Korean scientists have found a way to stabilise therapeutic RNA molecules, using chemical modifications, so that they can be more smoothly trafficked into cells. |
Unix Insider January 2001 Sandra Henry-Stocker |
Understanding viruses What exactly is a virus, how does it work, and how can you protect your system from one? The author explains the difference between viruses and worms, and why keeping up with and preventing them is so difficult... |
BusinessWeek May 27, 2010 Pettypiece & Gibson |
Training the Immune System to Fight Cancer Bristol-Myers' new melanoma drug may be a "game changer." |
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 July 3, 2015 Andy Extance |
Pharma queues up for checkpoint inhibitor collaborations Amid fierce rivalries over the latest generation of cancer treatments, drug makers have been weaving a complex web of collaborations on combination therapies spanning much of the pharmaceutical industry. |
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. |
BusinessWeek April 30, 2007 Catherine Arnst |
Teaching The Body To Fix Itself Cancer vaccines still in trial stages may be able to prolong life with few side effects, but the FDA has yet to be convinced. |
Chemistry World October 5, 2014 Andy Extance |
Tea tonic peps up tumor treatment Researchers in Singapore and the US have brewed up a green tea-based cancer drug delivery system where both the drug and its carrier fight tumor growth. |
Chemistry World July 22, 2013 Kirsty Muirhead |
Circulating cancer cells spiral towards separation A new biochip developed by researchers in Singapore can isolate tumor cells from blood samples, and may one day be an alternative to more invasive methods for tracking later stage cancers. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Richard Saltus |
T-Cell Booster Kits A bioengineer remodels cell surfaces to prod the immune system. |
Chemistry World January 6, 2011 Laura Howes |
Using HIV against itself US researchers have developed a 'Trojan horse' molecule that uses HIV to trigger the release of a drug that destroys the virus. |
HHMI Bulletin Aug 2011 Cassandra Willyard |
A Faster Knockout With a virus, a needle, and an ultrasound machine, researchers have drastically cut the time it takes to disable a gene in mice. |
Chemistry World June 12, 2014 Andy Extance |
Pharma vies to unleash immune system power on cancer Drug firms are investing heavily in clinical trials and collaborations as they seek to capitalize on the potential of cancer therapies that enlist or enhance our immune systems' ability to fight tumors. |
BusinessWeek June 13, 2005 Catherine Arnst |
Biotech, Finally The past 30 years of biological discoveries, insights into the human genome, and exotic chemical manipulation have unleashed a wave of biological drugs, many of them reengineered human proteins. |
Chemistry World July 28, 2006 Tom Westgate |
Radioactive Scorpion Venom Stings Brain Tumours Scorpion venom carries a nasty sting for brain tumour cells. A peptide based on chlorotoxin, found in the venom of the Giant Yellow Israeli Scorpion, has been used to target glioma, a particularly aggressive form of brain tumour. |
American Family Physician February 1, 2004 |
Penile Cancer What is cancer?... How does my doctor check for cancer?... How is penile cancer treated? |
Chemistry World September 1, 2008 Hayley Birch |
Cancer target structure unveiled Researchers in the US have produced the first detailed structure of a key protein involved in regulating cancer, an eagerly anticipated advance that should speed anti-cancer drug development. |
Chemistry World January 21, 2011 Jennifer Newton |
Early lung cancer diagnosis Patients with lung cancer have elevated levels of a specific protein in their blood that could be used as a biomarker for the disease, say scientists from South Korea. |
HHMI Bulletin May 2010 Sarah C.P. Williams |
Lab-Grown Liver New cell culture system solves problem of growing liver cells. |
Pharmaceutical Executive July 1, 2011 Dickmeyer & Rosenbeck |
From Rut to Racetrack Can the pharmaceutical industry deliver on its objective to make cancer a curable, chronic condition? |
Chemistry World November 25, 2008 James Urquhart |
Virus revealed by flipping lipid A drug that flags up virus-infected cells for destruction by the body's own immune system could lead to new, broad-spectrum anti-viral treatments, say US scientists. |
HHMI Bulletin Nov 2010 |
Fusion genes that drive solid tumors are a new target for cancer therapies The success of Gleevec and related drugs has inspired researchers to step up their hunt for the molecular defects underlying other cancers. |
IEEE Spectrum August 2006 Schoenbach et al. |
Zap Extreme voltage could be a surprisingly delicate tool in the fight against cancer. The list of effects that scientists have achieved using nanoseconds-long pulses is growing rapidly, though their actual use as a medical treatment is still years away. |
Chemistry World June 11, 2015 Sarah Houlton |
Companies clamour for CAR-T The biopharmaceutical industry is getting excited about chimeric antigen receptor T-cells, or CAR-T cells, designed to harness the cell-killing power of the immune system. |
BusinessWeek November 24, 2003 John Carey |
Barring The Door Against AIDS A new generation of drugs focuses on keeping the virus from entering cells. |
Chemistry World November 11, 2015 Maria Burke |
Viral cancer therapy approved in the US The first virus therapy to target cancer has been approved in the US. Its main target will be melanoma, the most aggressive form of skin cancer. |
Chemistry World November 1, 2006 Victoria Gill |
Beta Blockers as Cancer Therapy Researchers have shown how the stress hormone noradrenaline fuels the growth and spread of aggressive, malignant tumours. The data suggest beta blockers, drugs commonly used to treat high blood pressure reverse the effects of noradrenaline. |
Chemistry World September 26, 2006 Fiona Case |
Synchronised Delivery for DNA and Drugs Polymer capsules that can simultaneously deliver drug molecules and DNA into a cell could boost the power of cancer treatments. |