Sentences with phrase «human cancer»

They also found that drugs that target this newly identified cancer pathway can prevent tumor growth, both in human cancer cells and mice with a form of brain cancer.

But marijuana can still kill many types of human cancer cells.

The next steps will be to test these combinations in more human cancer cell types and eventually in mouse models.

A controversial weed killer may inadvertently act as a fertilizer for human cancer cells — and scientists are closer to understanding how.

Many human cancer patients find they are unable to maintain adequate body weight.

The next stage of research will examine the feasibility and safety of using a similar therapy on human cancer patients in clinical trial.

Treatment for pets with cancer has many similarities with human cancer treatment, now more so that new drug therapies are available for animal patients.

They are not widely available, but have recently been introduced into human cancer treatment.

A better understanding of the mutations that cause human cancer, they said, will help to define the best strategies for reducing cancer deaths.

As in human cancer research and treatment, canine cancer is big business.

We are currently extending these findings in multiple directions, including to other human cancers such as prostate cancer and leukemia.

Dogs are also helping advance the fight against human cancer as they serve as a model for various human tumors.

The results in dogs allowed the scientists to advance PAC - 1 as a potential therapy against human cancers.

Finding answers to these questions may go a long way toward preventing and treating human cancers.

Unlike most human cancers, this one can spread from animal to animal.

Using human cancer cell lines helps, but the crucial interplay between the cancers and their host environments is absent.

The process of integrating naturally occurring cancers in dogs into the general studies of human cancer biology and therapy is known as comparative oncology.

All well and good, but what about human cancer cells?

The authors studied a standard panel of 60 established human tumor cell lines representing nine different human cancers, as well as several specimens of human primary ovarian cancer.

For one, they were about 10 times smaller than normal human cancer cells.

He said more refined versions of the optical scanner may then be able to locate a tumor within seconds, and further advances may extend the method's application to human cancer detection.

Some tissue types give rise to human cancers millions of times more often than other tissue types.

According to its developers, the technique can be applied to assess mutation dynamics in other types of cells, even human cancer cells.

It was the first genetic defect linked with a specific human cancer.

His lab recently succeeded in creating the first genetically defined human cancer cells.

A significant amount of literature exists on relationships between coffee consumption and human cancer occurrence at 11 organ sites.

Our work is also aimed at benefiting human cancer patients.

Importantly it is also one of the most frequently activated genes in human cancer.

The group defined a new role for two proteins implicated in the majority of human cancers by showing they interact directly with the DNA replication machinery.

The authors of the studies state how their findings can be used to further research on human cancers.

In studies of mice injected with human cancer cells, the drug appeared to work according to plan.

Dogs play a crucial role in human cancer research.

But it's possible that human cancer treatment might also work against parasite cancer cells.

Many owners hesitate to pursue chemotherapy in their pets based on their knowledge of side effects in human cancer patients.

A growing field called comparative oncology studies these naturally arising tumors in pets to learn more about human cancers.

The size difference between tumor and healthy circulating DNA was initially discovered in animal tumor models created by inducing tumors with human cancer cells.

The team combed through data from eight different human cancer genome projects.

Cucinotta said the findings show a tremendous need for additional studies focused on cosmic ray exposures to tissues that dominate human cancer risks, and that these should begin prior to long - term space missions outside the Earth's geomagnetic sphere.

STAT5 belongs to a family of transcription factors that regulate cytokine - induced gene expression and is constitutively activated in several human cancers including breast cancer, where it promotes the expression of genes encoding cell survival factors (44).

The researchers tested honokiol on cell lines derived from human cancers of the oral cavity, larynx, tongue, and pharynx.

Canine malignancies that have been established as strong comparative models (17) for human cancers include transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder (17), non-Hodgkin's lymphoma (18, 19) and leukemia, osteosarcoma (20), melanoma (particularly oral melanoma; refs.

«In the area of oncology, but even more generally, embracing the genetic diversity of disease is really important,» says Golub, who is also director of the Broad's Cancer Program, the Charles A. Dana Investigator in Human Cancer Genetics at Dana - Farber, professor of pediatrics at Harvard Medical School, and a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator.

The Xie Lab demonstrated that differentiation - defective Drosophila ovarian germline stem cells (GSCs), behaving like human cancer stem cells, can out - compete normal stem cells for a position in the niche.

«Being recognized as the 2017 Human Cancer Hero has given me the platform to recognize my heroes in the fight against cancer,» says Dr. Sullivan.