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This Germ Could Save Your Life
Tooth Fairy The Streptococcus mutans bacteria shown here lives inside your mouth. It eats sugars and excretes teeth-rotting acid. But by replacing its acid-production gene with a gene that makes...
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Wriggling Away From Cancer
Wriggling Away From Cancer (Blow it Up!) Medi-Mation "Cancer treatments have hit a wall," says chemist Michael J. Sailor of the University of California at San Diego. Today's chemotherapy drugs leave...
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Veggies May Be the Key to Fighting Cancer
Tumor Killer? cowfish (CC Licensed) When your mother says eat your greens, you just might want to listen. It's been known since the 1970's that cruciferous vegetables, or cabbage family vegetables,...
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Radioactive Cancer-Binding Buckyballs For Targeted Chemotherapy
Plasma-filled Bucky Ball Creation Chamber via Future of ThingsChemotherapy is notorious for the toll it takes on the entire body. It kills cancer cells, sure, but it kills a lot of healthy cells, too....
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Surgical Scalpel Sniffs Out Tumors While It Cuts
Scalpels of Yore These are your daddy's scalpels Transforming surgical scalpels into imaging tools could provide instant feedback on suspicious tumors or tissues. European researchers plan for the new...
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First Preventative Cancer Vaccine Demonstrated to Work in Mice
Breast Cancer Cells crafty dame via FlickrIn a breakthrough that could shake up the way researchers think about cancer vaccines, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic have found a protein that appears...
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Portable Breast Scanner Makes Real-Time Cancer-Hunting Quick, Painless, and...
Portable Breast Cancer Scans University of Manchester School of Electrical and Electronic Engineering Just in time for the end of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a University of Manchester...
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Implantable Tumor Tracker Is a Tiny Lab That Lives Inside Your Body And...
The Implantable Tumor-Tracker Courtesy Michael Cima/MIT Rather than bringing people into the lab, researchers at MIT are putting tiny labs into people via a tiny implantable capsule that can track the...
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Using Light to Target and Kill Cancer Cells, Without Chemotherapy's Side Effects
Mouse Light Therapy A mouse with two implanted tumors received photoimmunotherapy treatment. The tumor on the mouse's left side (at the bottom in this image) was covered up, while the tumor on the...
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Petite Particle Accelerator: A Proton Gun For Killing Tumors
Proton Gun Click here to get a bigger view of this amazing image. Davvi Since 1990, doctors have been regularly treating cancer patients using proton beams, which work similarly to radiation. Proton...
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Brain Matters
Brain Tumor Courtesy Sherbrooke Hospital Last year, a 54-year-old Canadian woman had a malignant brain tumor that was blurring her left field of vision and causing severe headaches. It needed to be...
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New Imaging Technique Shows Surgeons Where Tumors End And Brains Begin
Visible Brain Tumor With SRS microscopy, the tumor appears blue, while normal tissue shows up green. Xie lab, Harvard University Scientists from the Harvard University and the University of Michigan...
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How International Guidelines For Lab Mice May Interfere With Cancer Research
The Long-Suffering Lab Mouse Oak Ridge National Laboratory Given the choice, a mouse wouldn't keep his house at what's considered "room temperature" for people. Mice are smaller. They lose heat...
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In a breakthrough that could shake up the way researchers think about cancer vaccines, researchers at the Cleveland Clinic have found a protein that appears to prepare the immune system to prevent...
View ArticlePortable Breast Scanner Makes Real-Time Cancer-Hunting Quick, Painless, and...
Just in time for the end of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month, a University of Manchester professor has developed a portable, radio frequency-based scanner that is able to show the presence of...
View ArticleImplantable Tumor Tracker Is a Tiny Lab That Lives Inside Your Body And...
Rather than bringing people into the lab, researchers at MIT are putting tiny labs into people via a tiny implantable capsule that can track the growth of a tumor or detect heart-deterioration or even...
View ArticleUsing Light to Target and Kill Cancer Cells, Without Chemotherapy's Side Effects
A new, finely tuned light-based treatment kills cancer cells in mice without harming the tissue around them, and could conceivably used to treat a wide range of human cancers, researchers say. The...
View ArticlePetite Particle Accelerator: A Proton Gun For Killing Tumors
Since 1990, doctors have been regularly treating cancer patients using proton beams, which work similarly to radiation. Proton therapy is more precise, however, causing less harm to healthy...
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Last year, a 54-year-old Canadian woman had a malignant brain tumor that was blurring her left field of vision and causing severe headaches. It needed to be removed. So David Fortin, a neurosurgeon at...
View ArticleNew Imaging Technique Shows Surgeons Where Tumors End And Brains Begin
Scientists from the Harvard University and the University of Michigan have developed a way to image brain tumors to reveal exactly where the tumor cells end and the healthy tissue begins, a technique...
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