White blood cells genetically modified to be cancer killers.(News)

The Birmingham Post (England);  April 2, 2003 ;     262 words ......blood cells into potent cancer killers, it was revealed...technique involves modifying white blood cells so that they recognise...in Britain next year. White blood cells are the vanguards...unlike infectious agents, cancer cells originate from a patient...by tweaking the DNA ...

Changing Cancer Cells to Normal;Drug Appears to Cure Form of Adult...

The Washington Post;  May 16, 1991 ;     700+ words ......relatively uncommon form of cancer by making the uncontrollably multiplying cancer cells change back into normal...maturity. Normally white blood cells grow old and...potentially "immortal" cancer cells age and die off like normal white blood cells. "We have ...

Mice put cancer on ice?: Study of ordinary lab mice injected with white...

Newsday (Melville, NY);  May 9, 2006 ;     636 words ......they have prevented cancer in ordinary lab mice by injecting them with white blood cells from cancer-resistant mice bred...through the animal's white blood cells, which are immune...delivering more and more cancer cells. The mouse seemed...a large number of ...

Cancer cells caught in the (metastatic) act. (video images of cancer cells...

Science News;  May 22, 1993 ;     462 words ......radiation and drug treatments, some cancer cells manage to get away from physicians trying...question theories about why refugee cancer cells settle where they do, and they offer...light, the researchers record injected cancer cells as they course through the organ's blood...

Nanotechnology shows cancer cells are 'softer' than normal cells

The Hindustan Times;  December 3, 2007 ;     700+ words ......softness of cells, thereby differentiating cancer cells from normal cells in patient samples...move through tight anatomical spaces, cancer cells are much more flexible, or softer, than normal cells. Such spreading, invading cancer cells lead to a build-up of fluids in body...

Fed: Cancer cells may hold the key to immortality

AAP General News (Australia);  March 18, 2005 ;     316 words ......General News (Australia) 03-18-2005 Fed: Cancer cells may hold the key to immortality EDS...increase people's lifespans by learning why cancer cells are immortal. Brian Morris, a professor...University of Sydney, said cultures of cancer cells in laboratories across the world had...

Lab-Made Molecule Can Help T-Cells Kill Cancer Cells

The Washington Post;  February 1, 1988 ;     346 words ......itself unusually effective at killing cancer cells in a test tube, medical researchers...the blood and can detect and kill cancer cells. Killer cells produce enzymes that eat holes in the cancer cells' membranes, causing them to leak to...

New oncology strategy: molecular targeting of cancer cells.(Nursing...

MedSurg Nursing;  June 1, 2004 ;     700+ words ......for anti-cancer therapies which target cancer cells specifically and selectively with less...chemotherapeutic agents do not target cancer cells selectively, leading to widespread adverse...process of proliferation. Therefore, both cancer cells and mitotically active healthy cells...

vital: CHEMISTS FIND NEW ADVANCE IN DETECTION OF CANCER CELLS.(Features)

Daily Record (Glasgow, Scotland);  December 3, 2007 ;     294 words ...SCIENTISTS have found cancer cells are almost four times softer than...University of California showed cancer cells taken from the body fluid of patients...clinical histories, all types of cancer cells showed similar values of stiffness...

HIV PROTEIN ENLISTED TO HELP KILL CANCER CELLS

US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  February 8, 2007 ;     700+ words ......Louis issued the following news release: Cancer cells are sick, but they keep growing because...efficient way to get a messenger into cancer cells that forces them to respond to death...TAT to pull a protein called Bim into cancer cells. TAT alone cannot cause AIDS and has...

New oncology strategy: molecular targeting of cancer cells.

Dermatology Nursing;  June 1, 2005 ;     700+ words ...New understanding of how cancer cells survive, thrive, and metastasize...Describe molecular targets of cancer cells under investigation. 2. Discuss...cancer therapies which target cancer cells specifically and selectively with...

Laser therapy destroys cancer cells.(Academic: Emerging Technologies)

R & D;  August 1, 2005 ;     424 words ......Calif. Standard chemotherapy destroys cancer cells and normal cells alike. For us, the...be finding a way to selectively kill cancer cells and not damage healthy ones. Dai and...laser therapy treatment for killing cancer cells. Light therapy When irradiated with...

Cancer Cells 'Reprogram' Energy Needs to Grow and Spread, Study Suggests.

Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  May 7, 2007 ;     582 words ......researchers at Johns Hopkins have found that cancer cells can reprogram themselves to turn down...oxygen, and that these changes might help cancer cells survive and spread. The Hopkins scientists...the loss of a single gene in kidney cancer cells causes them to stop making ...

Compound that causes cancer cells to self-destruct identified

The Hindustan Times;  August 28, 2006 ;     295 words ......synthetic compound that causes cancer cells to self destruct, throwing up...cell death called apoptosis. In cancer cells, however, the signalling pathway...procaspase-3 is broken. As a result cancer cells escape destruction and grow into...

Cancer cells contain building blocks for recurring prostrate cancer

The Hindustan Times;  October 12, 2007 ;     328 words ......androgen-synthesizing proteins present within cancer cells are the reason why some prostate cancers...University of Washington, suggests that cancer cells may develop the capacity to produce...research in the field, suggests that cancer cells may have the ability to adapt and ...