Article: Gene therapy that can make cancer cells 'self-destruct'.

Article: Using Ti[O.sub.2] to treat brain cancer: scientists have ...
Ceramic Industry;  October 1, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... receptors expressed on brain cancer cells," said Maciej S. Lesniak ... cancer to invade surrounding healthy cells, can also be attacked by ... antibody only targets the cancer cells, surrounding healthy cells are not affected, unlike ...

Article: New technique kills cancer virus without harming healthy ...
Cancer Weekly;  October 29, 2002 ;     700+ words ... ... human cervical cancer cells grown in culture ... causing damage to healthy cells. The discovery ... gene), all the cancer cells died. Using ... establish that normal healthy cells remained unaffected ... elimination of cancer cells without adverse ...

Article: Lost Molecule Is Lethal for Liver Cancer Cells in ...
Ascribe Higher Education News Service;  June 11, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... microRNAs in cancer cells, a team of researchers ... rapidly died while healthy cells remained unaffected ... selectively kills the cancer cells without causing ... that this is why healthy cells are very tolerant ... cells become cancer cells. "Since we ...

Article: Scientists can now differentiate between healthy ...
NewsRx Health & Science;  January 25, 2009 ;     700+ words ... ... treatments at destroying malignant cells without killing healthy cells in the process. But a new study by McMaster University researchers ... that more carefully target cancer, while sparing normal healthy cells Mick Bhatia, scientific director of the McMaster Stem Cell ...

Article: Genetic Transformation Converts Healthy Cells.(into ...
Genomics & Genetics Weekly;  January 19, 2001 ;     700+ words ... ... tissue have been converted into breast cancer cells by a defined protocol of genetic changes ... far, the genetic complexity of breast cancer cells has made it difficult to identify the ... transformation protocol in generating breast cancer cells in vivo, scientists expect this system ...

Article: Cancer cells tricked into suicide by gene therapy
The Independent - London;  November 22, 2001 ;     666 words ... ... sleight of hand to convince cancer cells that they're switching on ... a toxin that rapidly kills cancer cells. Healthy cells will not produce nitroreductase ... are directly adjacent to a cancer cells that is producing the toxin ...

Article: MODIFIED GENE TARGETS CANCER CELLS 1,000 TIMES MORE ...
The Hindustan Times;  December 18, 2008 ;     637 words ... ... effective against cancer cells than healthy cells. The findings ... gene, forcing cancer cells to kill themselves while healthy cells remain largely ... higher level in cancer cells than in healthy cells, when they stumbled ...