Sentences with phrase «used against cancer»

This experiment could pave the way for the gene - editing tool to be used against cancer in the future.

Along with the drug types mentioned above, other categories that blocked viral entry included estrogen receptor modulators used against cancer and serotonin reuptake inhibitors used to treat depression.

Curcumin from turmeric has more evidence - based literature supporting its use against cancer than any other nutrient.

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Regulators also took issue with a number of claims used to market the technology, particularly calling it a «first step in prevention» against diseases like diabetes, heart disease and breast cancer.

TBR Newsmedia CSHL's Fan finds clue in the way ovarian cancer spreads August 2, 2016 Australian Financial Review Evidence accumulates against using antioxidants in cancer August 2, 2016

The second would be a medical use, and it needs to be balanced against the risk of increased breast, cervical and liver cancer.

Indeed, the animal rights movement's fury against the speciesist use of animals» a necessary element for human flourishing, particularly in medical research» has increased to the point that scientists are now under threat of death by the most radical liberationists for daring to experiment on rats or monkeys to find cures for cancer and other human afflictions.

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For this reason, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force has declined to issue a recommendation either for or against the use of 3D mammography as a screening procedure for breast cancer.

As the criminal complaint against Silver alleges, he used his authority to disburse HCRA grants to enrich himself, directing hundreds of thousands of dollars to renowned Columbia University physician Dr. Robert Taub for the completion of a center to study mesothelioma, a rare cancer that can be caused by asbestos exposure, in exchange for Taub's agreement to direct clients with cancer to Silver's law firm Weitz & Luxenberg, which specializes in lucrative asbestos lawsuits.

Silver — who at the time was one of the most powerful lawmakers in Albany — was found guilty on all seven counts against him that he engaged in two quid - pro-quo schemes in which used his position to benefit a cancer researcher and two real estate developers.

And using cells from someone other than the cancer patient being treated might trigger an immune response against the foreign cells.

Using infections to turn the immune system against cancer cells is a 100 - year - old technique.

Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resisCancer Center study published online ahead of print in the journal Oncogene offers compelling evidence explaining this failure and offering a possible strategy for the use of retinoic acid or other retinoids against some breast cancers: Because early clinical trials are often offered to patients who have already tried other more established therapies, breast cancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resiscancer cells may have been pushed past an important tipping point that offers retinoic acid resistance.

Last year, the FDA approved for use against lung cancer two antibody - based therapies that block PD - 1.

The researchers also say that the development of this synthetic route will enable chemists to attenuate the toxicity and potentially improve α - amanitin's activity against cancer, something that is only made possible by the use of synthetic derivatives.

The researchers also identified drugs that are effective against the cancers and could potentially be used in the fight to save the devils from extinction.

The best candidate biomarker, plasma thrombospondin - 2 (THBS2), was screened against 746 cancer and control plasma samples using an inexpensive, commercially available protein - detection assay.

Whether investigating fat cells, immunotherapy or use of the CRISPR - Cas 9 gene - editing tool, which a federal panel recently approved for a select number of patients suffering from three types of cancers, including multiple myeloma, approaches beyond attacking cancer cells are needed in the fight against many cancers.

After years of speculation about the promise of cancer vaccines as a way to use the immune system against tumors, the United States will soon see its first cancer vaccine hit the market.

The researchers showed how gelsolin works at the molecular level to protect cancer cells against a widely used chemotherapy drug called cisplatin.

There is plenty of anecdotal evidence out there claiming a link between cell phone use and cancer: Keith Black, chairman of neurosurgery at Cedars - Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, says that the brain cancer (malignant glioma) that killed O. J. Simpson's attorney, Johnnie Cochran, was the result of frequent cell phone use, based on the fact that the tumor developed on the side of the head against which he held his phone.

Initially used to protect against side - effects such as fractures, there is also some evidence that taking the drug extends the lives of women with breast cancer.

Although use of the human papillomavirus (HPV) vaccine, which helps prevent against cervical and other cancers, has increased in the past 5 years, HPV vaccination remains low with only 37.6 % of adolescent girls and 13.9 % of adolescent boys receiving vaccination.

This widespread lack of the need for telomerase is used by evolution as a key component of our defense against cancer, because having a limit to the size and renewal of telomeres prevents our cells from replicating themselves indefinitely — the crucial hallmark of cancer.

«We used to think it was too dangerous to use viruses that cause a raging infection,» NIH's David Bodine says, «but we've now realized that this incredible immune response can be turned very specifically against cancer.

Building on these successes, gene therapy may soon be used to correct hereditary genetic diseases like cystic fibrosis, hemophilia, and Tay - Sachs and to activate the immune response against a wide variety of infectious diseases and cancers.

Exploiting the same pre-clinical model used for their studies, the researchers are testing the efficacy of this kind of drug candidates against cancer stem cells, and the possibility of identifying combination regimens with standard chemotherapies with minimized toxic effects, with the perspective of their possible application for the treatment of human breast cancer.

«The microgravity environment of the International Space Station is now being used for myriad lines of research, for example: vaccine development, finding novel molecular targets against drug - resistant pathogens, and testing of molecules to be used against osteoporosis or cancer,» Zea says.

Researchers at the University of North Carolina Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center are using what they know about a rare, inherited autoimmune disease to turn the body's defenses against melanoma.

The test, described in tomorrow's issue of the journal Circulation, might be used to devise better antioxidant vitamin therapies against free radicals and to explore the mechanism of these compounds in cancer and other diseases.

In research published in BioMetals, UJ3 is shown to be as effective against human esophageal cancer cells, as a widely - used chemotherapy drug in use today.

One promising strategy in the fight against cancer is to use the body's own immune system to remove tumor cells, but due to a phenomenon called immune tolerance, the immune system has a difficult time identifying which cells to attack.

Harvard Stem Cell Institute scientists at Massachusetts General Hospital have devised a new way to use stem cells in the fight against brain cancer.

One could take Davis, who is the director of the Center for Environmental Oncology at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute, to task on the same grounds used by critics against Rachel Carson, whose book, Silent Spring, launched the modern environmental movement: Davis unabashedly makes the case against toxins and their health toll without presenting the other point of view.

Despite the widespread use of screening programs and the recent advent of vaccines against human papilloma virus, cervical cancer continues to be a significant public health problem.

Spain's top cancer scientist is fighting with the government over a plan to use private funding to develop drugs against lung cancer — and both parties have chosen the media as their battleground.

A related paper on the potential use of FAK inhibitors against lung cancer was recently published in JCI Insight by Marcus and his colleagues.

Interferon - a, a drug widely used to treat hepatitis C and several cancers, may also work against SARS, according to a study published online this week by Nature Medicine.

Chemicals from sponges are now used against herpes and some cancers.

An important approach in advanced cancer medicine is to treat cancer using a patient's immune cells after first arming the cells against the tumor in culture.

«Identifying a cancer driver is crucial for cancer treatment because it allows the use of targeted therapies, which have less side - effects than conventional chemotherapy drugs, against a particular protein,» said Kurokawa.

A study led by scientists at The Wistar Institute describes a novel immunotherapeutic strategy for the treatment of cancer based on the use of synthetic DNA to directly encode protective antibodies against a cancer specific protein.

They used the gene - editing CRISPR / Cas9 technique to sift the genomes of melanoma cells for changes that made tumors resistant to being killed by immune T cells, which are the main actors in the immune system response against infections and cancer cells.

Researchers also found that sequential use of an initial dose of chemotherapy first and then cannabinoids significantly improved overall results against the blood cancer cells.

One of the most contentious and closely scrutinized decisions before the FDA concerns Provenge, a proposed therapeutic vaccine made by Dendreon for use against prostate cancer.

Researchers are hopeful that the approach they used in this study of neuroblastoma may prove effective against some of the many other cancers also characterized by a surplus of MYC - family proteins in tumor cells.

«Since doxorubicin is one of the cheapest drugs that is effective against many types of cancer but rarely used in colon cancer, the combination therapy could be highly effective in combating colon cancer while drastically lowering risk of cardiotoxic side effects.»

Using these techniques, we were able to show polyploid liver cells protected the liver against cancer formation in the mouse,» said Dr. Hao Zhu, Assistant Professor at CRI and a CPRIT scholar in Cancer Rescancer formation in the mouse,» said Dr. Hao Zhu, Assistant Professor at CRI and a CPRIT scholar in Cancer ResCancer Research.