Sentences with phrase «cancer in laboratory»

The chemical has been linked to reproductive defects in fish and prostate and breast cancer in laboratory rodents — studies suggest it is carcinogenic to humans.

One effect of the changes to the draft, reviewed by Reuters in a comparison with the published report, was the removal of multiple scientists» conclusions that their studies had found no link between glyphosate and cancer in laboratory animals.

Toxic products from spoiled foodstuffs Drug residues Hormone levels comparable to amounts that have produced cancer in laboratory animals Artificial colors, flavors, and preservatives, all of which he claims are responsible for an epidemic of cancer and degenerative diseases And even euthanized dogs and cats, which he claims «are routinely rendered by veterinary hospitals or shelters and recycled into pet food.»

Among it's valuable components are gamma - linolenic acid (GLA), linoleic and arachidonic acids, vitamin B12 (needed, especially for vegetarians, for healthy red blood cells), iron, a high level of protein (60 to 70 percent), essential amino acids, the nucleic acids RNA and DNA, chlorophyll, and phycocyanin, a blue pigment that is found only in blue - green algae and that has increased the survival rate of mice with liver cancer in laboratory experiments.

Like emu oil, this oil is rated as one of the most powerful of skin healers, research has even discovered that pomegranate oil can fight both skin and breast cancer in laboratory testing.

Trihalomethanes (THMs) are Cancer Group B carcinogens, meaning they've been shown to cause cancer in laboratory animals.

Charcoal grilled meats and smoked foods contain chemicals called polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons that are used to induce cancer in laboratory animals, yet our ancestors ate liberally of smoked meats and fish without suffering from high levels of cancer.

Most recently he has been studying the use of Vitamin D in the treatment of pancreatic cancer in the laboratory.

But while most PDX mice are used as general models of human cancer in the laboratory, others seek to use them as Fiebig originally hoped — as avatars to guide customized patient care.

These compounds cause cancer in laboratory animals, and studies of industrial workers strongly suggest they can cause lung cancer in humans too.

The study, published Nov. 17 by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, shows that triclosan causes liver fibrosis and cancer in laboratory mice through molecular mechanisms that are also relevant in humans.

(It's relatively easy to cure cancer in laboratory mice — «If you can't cure cancer in a mouse,» a cancer researcher once said to me, «then you should change careers» — but certainly not easy in people.

Some PAHs have caused cancer in laboratory animals when they breathed air containing them (lung cancer), ingested them in food (stomach cancer), or had them applied to their skin (skin cancer).»

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SHENZHEN / SHANGHAI, China (Reuters)- At its high - tech laboratories in the Chinese manufacturing hub of Shenzhen, Beike Biotechnology is developing medical robots that could help treat cancer.

Hugh Jackman, in his most challenging role to date, plays Tommy Creo, a present - day scientist laboring zealously in a laboratory to find a cure for cancer.

Dean Hamer, the chief of gene structure and regulation at the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Biochemistry, wrote recently in Scientific American about his vision of a not - too - distant future in which an imaginary couple, Syd and Kayla, got to tweak the emotional makeup of their fetus.

In the laboratory, steviol can be converted into a mutagenic compound — if cell DNA becomes mutagenic, cancer may ensue.

Carrageenan is such an efficient inflammatory agent and carcinogen, it is widely used with laboratory animals to study the molecular signals involved in cancer and anti-inflammatory drugs.

The Food and Drug Administration has long permitted its use, but in recent years concerns about the chemical have grown as studies have indicated low doses of the substance can disrupt hormone systems in laboratory animals and possibly increase the risk of cancer or other serious illness.

Best to avoid the anti-fertility chemicals in the bug sprays on our fruits and veggies... my advice is to buy non-GMO and Organic — real fruit and veggies; not laboratory - made, and void of brain - damaging, cancer - causing, and fertility - damaging pesticides.

Three popular brands of baby mattresses that were marketed in recent months to families and day care centers contained toxic flame retardants linked to increased cancer risk, according to laboratory tests conducted for the Chicago Tribune.

Over the past decade, a growing body of scientific studies has linked the chemical to breast cancer, testicular cancer, diabetes, hyperactivity, obesity, low sperm count, miscarriage and other reproductive problems in laboratory animals.

The BJC's mission is to encourage communication of the very best cancer research from laboratories and clinics in all countries.

Scientists at the Johns Hopkins Kimmel Cancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer develoCancer Center say they have preliminary evidence in laboratory - grown, human airway cells that a condensed form of cigarette smoke triggers so - called «epigenetic» changes in the cells consistent with the earliest steps toward lung cancer develocancer development.

After graduating in 1993, Mangahas went to work as a lab technician at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, managing the laboratory of Virginia Zakian and conducting research using common baker's yeast — the same yeast he uses today to ferment wine.

Hongbing Wang's laboratory was interested in how this principle applied to cancers of the liver.

A raft of studies in laboratory animals, molecular models and cancer patients suggest that pain drugs given during and after cancer surgery stimulate the growth and spread of certain tumors.

Sometime around 2010, a fellow scientist at the Mayo Clinic had agreed to donate her healthy blood for use in the research laboratory where Markovic studies the interface between cancer and the immune system.

«We were surprised to find cancer - linked genes in these benign endometriosis samples because these lesions do not typically become cancer,» says Papadopoulos, whose Ludwig Center laboratories performed the sequencing.

The NCI Summer Curriculum in Cancer Prevention, which consists of the «Principles and Practice of Cancer Prevention and Control» course, the «Molecular Prevention» course, and the «Molecular Prevention Laboratory» practicum, allows fellows to expand their knowledge in the multidisciplinary aspects of cancer prevention and coCancer Prevention, which consists of the «Principles and Practice of Cancer Prevention and Control» course, the «Molecular Prevention» course, and the «Molecular Prevention Laboratory» practicum, allows fellows to expand their knowledge in the multidisciplinary aspects of cancer prevention and coCancer Prevention and Control» course, the «Molecular Prevention» course, and the «Molecular Prevention Laboratory» practicum, allows fellows to expand their knowledge in the multidisciplinary aspects of cancer prevention and cocancer prevention and control.

This realization «pushed one entire laboratory project in the direction of understanding the immunology of pregnancy as a model for immunity of cancer,» Markovic says.

Laboratory mice that have received rapamycin have reduced the age - dependent decline in spontaneous activity, demonstrated more fitness, improved cognition and cardiovascular health, had less cancer and lived substantially longer than mice fed a normal diet.

While pursuing her project on how environmental contaminants and oxidative stress cause lung cancer, Gelhaus complemented her postdoctoral training by spending some time with other PIs at Penn. «She has worked hard to develop skills that are independent of those available in my own laboratory while working on a project that is central to my research program,» Blair writes in an e-mail to Science Careers.

«That's when Big Pharma started sniffing around and really got interested in immunotherapy,» says Jeffrey Schlom, chief of the National Cancer Institute's Laboratory of Tumor Immunology and Biology.

My next career step was to accept a 6 - month position, which was then extended by an additional year, to establish a translational research laboratory for cancer immunotherapy at the Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, a major nonprofit health care, research, and teaching institution in cancer immunotherapy at the Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus, a major nonprofit health care, research, and teaching institution in Cancer Campus, a major nonprofit health care, research, and teaching institution in Paris.

Scientists from Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory in collaboration with researchers from University of California campuses at Merced and Davis have found that a secreted protein predominantly expressed in bone inhibits prostate cancer metastasis to bone.

The research team, including Soumen Paul, Ph.D., associate professor, Arindam Paul, Ph.D., assistant professor, and Ossama Tawfik, professor, M.D., Ph. D., all in the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, and their colleagues, studied atypical protein kinase c lambda / iota signaling during the invasive progression of triple - negative breast cancer.

Now, in a new study using laboratory - grown cells and mice, Johns Hopkins scientists report that a method they used to track metabolic pathways heavily favored by cancer cells provides scientific evidence for combining anti-cancer drugs, including one in a nanoparticle format developed at Johns Hopkins, that specifically target those pathways.

Isoflavones have been shown to slow the growth of breast cancer cells in laboratory studies, and epidemiological analyses in East Asian women with breast cancer found links between higher isoflavone intake and reduced mortality.

Singapore has shown to be a powerhouse of nanotech research as «it is pouring lots of money into recruiting high - level scientists in nanomedicine and nanotechnology,» says Scott McNeil, who heads the U.S. National Cancer Institute's Nanotechnology Characterization Laboratory (NCL).

In a separate laboratory experiment, they found the same JK - 31 molecule also blocked a specific growth factor (VEGF - A) produced by the cancer to attract the growth of blood vessels.

Although skin cancer is on the rise in humans, Sweet's group contends that it's occurrence in fish has not been reported outside of the laboratory.

A case of cancer was diagnosed in his family, and Delahaye decided to spend his postdoc working on tumor immunogenetics in the laboratory of Laurence Zitvogel at the Institut Gustave Roussy in Paris.

Focusing on basic research for the functional regulation of innate and adaptive immunity and on translational research for cancer immunotherapies, the National Key Laboratory of Medical Immunology has been conducting innovative research and exploration, and is becoming a rising star in the international immunology community.

«Despite the low infection levels of mouse cells with oHSV, we were able to cause a delay in tumor growth in one of the cancer models and even cure many of the mice in a second model,» said first author Jennifer Leddon, who conducted much of the laboratory work during a research experience in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood Discancer models and even cure many of the mice in a second model,» said first author Jennifer Leddon, who conducted much of the laboratory work during a research experience in the Center for Childhood Cancer and Blood DisCancer and Blood Diseases.

The Singapore team used leading edge DNA sequencing tools, some of which were developed in - house, including specialised laboratory techniques and computational methods developed at Duke - NUS and GIS to characterise genetic alterations associated with the spread of colorectal cancer to the liver.

Spearheaded by first author Christopher McNair, PhD, a graduate student in the laboratory of Dr. Knudsen, the study undertook an extensive analysis of tumor samples and cell - free DNA samples from patients with advanced, lethal - stage prostate cancer.

Today, a team of researchers at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory reports in the journal Genes & Development that they have arrived at «new insights into signaling events that underlie metastasis in ovarian cancer cells,» says Gaofeng Fan, Ph.D., postdoctoral investigator who conducted most of the experiments, in the laboratory of his mentor, CSHL Professor NicholasLaboratory reports in the journal Genes & Development that they have arrived at «new insights into signaling events that underlie metastasis in ovarian cancer cells,» says Gaofeng Fan, Ph.D., postdoctoral investigator who conducted most of the experiments, in the laboratory of his mentor, CSHL Professor Nicholaslaboratory of his mentor, CSHL Professor Nicholas K. Tonks.

The phi test is now available to physicians nationwide through Innovative Diagnostics Laboratory (IDL), a national clinical reference laboratory specializing in personalized blood ‐ based testing to find, understand and treLaboratory (IDL), a national clinical reference laboratory specializing in personalized blood ‐ based testing to find, understand and trelaboratory specializing in personalized blood ‐ based testing to find, understand and treat cancer.

The initial experiments made use of cancer cells that Quiñones - Hinojosa and his team removed from willing patients and grew in the laboratory until they formed little spheres of cells, termed oncospheres, likely to be the most resistant to chemotherapy and radiation, and capable of creating new tumors.