Sentences with phrase «leading cancer biologist»

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«Especially in early stages, normal cells can kill cancer cells,» says biologist Yasuyuki Fujita, who led the British team.

Biologist Menna Jones of the University of Tasmania has led the charge to thwart the contagious cancer that threatens Tasmanian devils.

Scientists led by cancer biologist Wen - Hwa Lee of the University of California, Irvine, set out to identify genes regulated by BRCA1.

The team, led by biologists Jung - Joon Min and Joon Haeng Rhee, then set out to test the effects of the modified Salmonella on cancer.

Biologist Michael Wigler of Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, who led the study, started out studying genes in cancer cells but soon realized he was seeing unexpected patterns in the healthy cells he examined for reference.

«Pancreatic cancer develops from these lesions, so if we understand how these lesions come about, we may be able to stop the cancer train altogether,» says the study's lead investigator, Peter Storz, Ph.D., a cancer biologist.

The findings, featured on the cover of the March 7 issue of Cell Reports, show that patients with high levels of the biomarker, CD151, have a poor prognosis, says lead author Mauricio Medrano, a molecular biologist and research associate at Princess Margaret Cancer Centre, University Health Network.

A research team led by cancer biologist Daniel Starczynowski, PhD, found that overexpression of a protein called TRAF6 in hematopoietic (blood) cells drives the onset of MDS.

Furthermore, when the team, lead by cell biologist Valeria Fantin, implanted LDH - A-normal cancer cells and LDH - A-deficient cancer cells in mice, LDH - A-deficient tumors grew more slowly and took two - and - a-half times longer, on average, to kill the mice than LDA - A-positive tumors.

Study co-author Laura van't Veer, a molecular biologist and leader of the breast oncology program at the Helen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center at the University of California at San Francisco, did the research that led to the gene test while working for the Netherlands Cancer Institute.

«People who undergo chemotherapy or radiation therapy for oral cancer often lose their sense of taste, leading to decreased interest in food, weight loss, and malnutrition,» said lead author M. Hakan Ozdener, M.D., Ph.D., M.P.H., a cellular biologist at Monell.

«We calculated that 3.6 percent of cases traveled, basically meaning that if you were able to focus on those mobile cases and reduce their mobility, you might have had a disproportionate effect on the epidemic,» said computational biologist Dr. Gytis Dudas, a Mahan Postdoctoral Fellow at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center and the paper's lead author.

Finally this month, the Nobel Prizes were handed out with Japanese cell biologist Yoshinori Ohsumi awarded the Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his discoveries of mechanisms for autophagy, which it is hoped could lead to breakthroughs in treatments for cancer, Parkinson's disease and Alzheimer's disease.