By suppressing genes that are active in the developing embryo, silenced just before birth, and re-activated years later in many advanced cancers, the let - 7 family of «microRNAs» — tiny snippets of RNA that can put the brakes on expression of selected genes — appears to prevent
human cancer cells from reasserting their prenatal capacity to divide rapidly, travel and spread.
Not exact matches
Chronic cigarette smoke exposure, as noted in many
human cancers, tends to block these
cell maturation genes
from properly turning on, says Baylin.
An analysis of the HPV16 genome
from 5,570
human cell and tissue samples revealed that the virus actually consists of thousands of unique genomes, such that infected women living in the same region often have different HPV16 sequences and variable risks to
cancer.
«This model was trained on genetic data
from human tumors in The
Cancer Genome Atlas and was able to predict response to certain inhibitors that affect cancers with overactive Ras signaling in an encyclopedia of cancer cell lines,» Greene
Cancer Genome Atlas and was able to predict response to certain inhibitors that affect
cancers with overactive Ras signaling in an encyclopedia of
cancer cell lines,» Greene
cancer cell lines,» Greene said.
HBI member V. Wee Yong, PhD and research associate Susobhan Sarkar, PhD, and their team including researchers
from the Department of Clinical Neurosciences and the university's Southern Alberta
Cancer Research Institute, looked at
human brain tumor samples and discovered that specialized immune
cells in brain tumor patients are compromised.
In their latest study, they tested compounds against
cells from nine different types of
human cancer, including common types affecting blood, colon, breast, prostate, ovaries, kidneys, and lungs.
Although researchers do not yet know the biological significance of these discoveries, they say that fully cataloguing the genome may help them understand how genetic variations affect the risk of contracting diseases such as
cancer as well as how
humans grow
from a single -
celled embryo into an adult.
Using this biosensor in highly invasive breast
cancer cells taken
from rodents and
humans, the Einstein team discovered that when an individual invadopodium forms and is actively degrading the ECM, its Rac1 levels are low; on the other hand, elevated Rac1 levels coincide with the invadopodium's disappearance.
In experiments on normal and MLL
cells from mice and
humans, the researchers demonstrated that beta - catenin is activated in
cancer stem
cells that prompt leukaemic blood
cells to multiply.
By promoting DNA demethylation, high - dose vitamin C treatment induced stem
cells to mature, and also suppressed the growth of leukemia
cancer stem
cells from human patients implanted in mice.
Pre-clinical studies have shown it to be effective in eliminating a number of different kinds of
cancers cells, including
cancer stem
cells from human breast
cancer patient biopsies.
A DEVICE that filters
cancer cells from human blood using sound could help to identify tumour
cells that have spread.
The tissue barrier, about four
cells deep, was made
from «BeWo»
human cancer cells.
Serendipitously, the antimicrobial peptide shows promise for protecting
humans from cancer; it can inhibit the growth of prostate and bladder
cancer cells, as well as multi-drug resistant leukemic
cells.
The researchers hope that ultimately
human trials will prove the efficacy of the OH14 compound in sensitising tumour
cells and
cancer stem
cells to existing drug - based therapies thus disabling tumours
from seeding new growth after treatment.
Avivi's team has found out that fibroblast skin
cells from the armpits of the rats can kill
human cancer cells in a dish.
The stem
cells, derived
from human umbilical cord - blood and coaxed into an embryonic - like state, were grown without the conventional use of viruses, which can mutate genes and initiate
cancers, according to the scientists.
In this study, researchers took
cells from patients with blood
cancer MDS and turned them into stem
cells to study the deletions of
human chromosome 7 often associated with this disease.
They found out that TiY is capable of distinguishing TICs
from non-TICs in various
human lung
cancer cell lines and patient - derived lung tumors.
Beyond lung
cancer, TiY is able to target TICs in 28 types of
human cell lines derived
from the central nervous system, melanoma, breast, renal, ovarian, colon, and prostate
cancer.
By assessing the survival of the
cells that engulf the particles and measuring the levels of red or green light that they emitted, the researchers determined which formulation of particles performed best, then tested that formulation in mice with
human brain
cancer derived
from their patients.
The team tested its technique on three mice whose abdomens had been grafted with
cells from human brain
cancer.
To see whether
cancer stem
cell renewal involves a chain of events similar to that used by embryonic stem
cells, and whether the process was affected by oxygen levels, Semenza and graduate student Chuanzhao Zhang focused their studies on two
human breast
cancer cell lines that responded to low oxygen by ramping up production of the protein ALKBH5, which removes methyl groups
from mRNAs.
In addition to the afatinib - resistant NSCLC
cells, the researchers tested the neratinib and valproic acid combination on
cell lines derived
from human pancreatic and ovarian
cancers containing K - Ras mutations and N - Ras mutations, respectively.
A team of researchers, led by Keiko Kawauchi
from the Mechanobiology Institute at the National University of Singapore, studied
cells that had been transformed into
cancer cells by Ras, the most common oncogene in
human cancer.
One postdoc presents data on her efforts to develop an organoid model for small -
cell lung
cancer; another reports progress on culturing hormone - secreting organoids
from human gut tissue.
Now, scientists have modified Salmonella bacteria to trigger a particularly powerful immune response against
human cancer cells implanted in mice, shrinking the tumors and — for the first time — preventing them
from metastasizing.
As controls, fibroblasts and secretions
from normal lab rats, mice, and another rodent called the spiny mouse were powerless to stop the
human cancer cells growing.
That finding indicates that very low numbers of the
cells in the body could be enough to protect
human patients
from maladies ranging
from infections to
cancer.
Into the cerebral cortex of mice with these light - sensitive proteins, the team implanted
cancer cells from a
human pediatric cortical glioblastoma.
The Dicty
cells were taken
from the single -
celled organisms that make up slime molds, whereas the HL60
cells are highly studied
human cancer cells.
Over the past two years, investigators
from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania have reported results
from a
human trial in GBM using chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T
cell therapy, through which patients» own T
cells were engineered to track down and kill
cancer cells that express a tumor - specific protein known as EGFRvIII.
In a letter published in the
cancer journal Annals of Oncology, researchers led by Professor Jean - Philippe Spano, head of the medical oncology department at Pitie - Salpetriere Hospital AP - HP in Paris, France, report that while treating an HIV - infected lung
cancer patient with the
cancer drug nivolumab, they observed a «drastic and persistent decrease» in the reservoirs of
cells in the body where the
human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) is able to hide away
from attack by anti-retroviral therapy.
«Our new approach takes young and aggressive macrophages
from the bone marrow of a
human donor and removes a key safeguard that
cancer cells have co-opted to prevent them
from being engulfed,» Alvey said.
«For example, mouse mammary tumors shared a signaling pathway that is found in
human lung
cancer and controls how
cells reproduce and move
from one location to another.»
The study of
human astrocytes has faced issues related to access (samples of living tissue must be obtained
from brain
cancer or epilepsy surgeries or fetal tissue) and purification (breaking apart astrocytes away
from other
cells often killed them and many experiments ended in failure).
New research
from scientists at Huntsman
Cancer Institute (HCI) at the University of Utah and collaborators at University of Utah Health (U of U Health) sheds light on the complex process that occurs in the development of
human sperm stem
cells.
The researchers tested honokiol on
cell lines derived
from human cancers of the oral cavity, larynx, tongue, and pharynx.
The goal of the first experiment was to see whether lncRNAs are differentially expressed in prostate
cancer by measuring total RNA
from prostate
cancer cell lines and normal epithelial prostatic
cells using NCode
human ncRNA array and SurePrint G3
human lncRNA microarrays.
When the Cornell team cultured
human breast
cancer cells on matrix deposited by fat - derived
cells from obese mice, the
cancer cells grew faster than they did on the matrix of
cells from slimmer mice.
In a companion study also published in Science, Nick Haining, MD, and colleagues
from Dana - Farber
Cancer Institute, also found a distinct epigenetic landscape for exhausted T
cells in mice and
humans, and they were able to ascribe key functions in T
cell exhaustion to some of these epigenetic changes.
After confirming in mouse models that
cells from HER2 - positive breast
cancers became resistant to anti-HER2 treatment when implanted into the brain but not into other tissues, the investigators found that HER3 is overexpressed in brain metastases of HER2 - positive breast
cancers from both mice and
human patients.
As part of the international EU project «SPICE II Plus,» which is now coming to an end, scientists
from the MedUni Vienna's Institute for
Cancer Research have now also found evidence that synthetic substances damage the DNA of human cells and can therefore possibly have cancer - causing ef
Cancer Research have now also found evidence that synthetic substances damage the DNA of
human cells and can therefore possibly have
cancer - causing ef
cancer - causing effects.
Sergey Nikolaev
from the UNIGE Faculty of Medicine focused on Basal
Cell Carcinoma (BCC), a type of
cancer that is very common in
humans.
For the time course study,
cells were treated with 20 μM of EGCG for 12, 24, 48, 72, or 144 h.
Human colon
cancer cell line HT - 29 and prostate
cancer cell line PC3 were obtained
from American Type Culture Collection (Manassas, VA), and were grown in McCoy's 5A and RPMI 1640 containing 10 % fetal bovine serum, respectively.
Next steps include He's collaboration with Piedmont Atlanta Hospital to retrieve T
cells, liver
cancer cells and healthy tissue normally removed
from patients during surgery, put the mouse receptor genes on these T
cells and monitor in a dish both how those
cells now fight the tumor and react to healthy
human tissue.
Reykjavik, ICELAND, 25 September 2011 — Scientists at deCODE Genetics and academic collaborators
from Iceland, The Netherlands, Spain, Denmark, Germany, Sweden, the USA, the UK and Romania today report the discovery of a variant in the sequence of the
human genome associated with risk of developing basal
cell carcinoma of the skin (BCC), as well as prostate
cancer and glioma, the most serious form of brain
cancer.
The near - infrared light that causes the nanotubes to fluoresce can penetrate about eight centimeters into
human tissue, so physicians could potentially shine the light through skin and flesh to look for fluorescence
from nanotubes signaling the presence of
cancer cells.
Our technological expertise ranges
from the most fundamental approaches to study membrane transport in lymphocytes and dendritic
cells (subcellular compartmentalization, intravital microscopy, phagosomal functions), the systematic analysis of gene expression and it regulation (RNAseq, Chip Seq, proteomics) and physiological and pathological immune responses (mouse models for
cancer immunity, immunomodulation / vaccination,
human clinical studies in
cancer).
Findings
from basic research, such as studies of
cancer cells in the laboratory, can ultimately define research questions to study in
humans, such as helping to identify drugs to test in clinical trials.