Article: Stunning art by Damien Hirst mixes beauty and death

Article: Gene therapy that can make cancer cells 'self-destruct'.
Asian News International;  December 18, 2008 ;     475 words ......to develop a gene therapy that makes cancer cells 'self-destruct'. Researchers at the...produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells. Using this new...codes into the modified gene, forcing cancer cells to kill themselves while healthy cells...

Article: MODIFIED GENE TARGETS CANCER CELLS 1,000 TIMES MORE OFTEN
The Hindustan Times;  December 18, 2008 ;     430 words ......thousand times more effective against cancer cells than healthy cells. The findings may...specifically and effectively target cancer cells. Using this new approach, scientists...codes into the modified gene, forcing cancer cells to kill themselves while healthy cells...

Article: U.S. scientists modify gene to specifically target cancer cells
Xinhua News Agency;  December 17, 2008 ;     346 words ......scientists modify gene to specifically target cancer cells WASHINGTON, Dec. 17 (Xinhua) -- Researchers...produces a thousand times more protein in cancer cells than in healthy cells. The findings...specifically and effectively target cancer cells. Using this new approach, ...

Article: Dormant cancer cells rely on cellular self-cannibalization to survive
Xinhua News Agency;  January 4, 2009 ;     538 words ...Dormant cancer cells rely on cellular self-cannibalization...and perhaps killing, dormant ovarian cancer cells that persist after initial treatment...or self-cannibalization, in ovarian cancer cells. Often a mechanism for cancer cell...

Article: Cancer cells caught in the (metastatic) act. (video images of cancer cells in blood vessels)
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...

Article: 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...

Article: Good versus bad cells.(cell death and metabolism of cancer cells and neurons)(Report)
The Science Teacher;  February 1, 2009 ;     501 words ...Cancer cells and nervous system neurons may not look...describe how neurons (nerve cells) and cancer cells (see image above) achieve the common...Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. In cancer cells, blocking cell death allows them to...

Article: 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...

Article: DORMANT CANCER CELLS RELY ON CELLULAR SELF-CANNIBALIZATION TO SURVIVE
US Fed News Service, Including US State News;  December 31, 2008 ;     622 words ......and perhaps killing, dormant ovarian cancer cells that persist after initial treatment...or self-cannibalization, in ovarian cancer cells. Often a mechanism for cancer cell death...as a survival mechanism for dormant cancer cells. "Prolonged autophagy is lethal to cancer...

Article: 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...

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

Article: 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...

Article: Shared survival mechanism explains why 'good' nerve cells last and 'bad' cancer cells flourish.(Report)
NewsRx Health;  January 4, 2009 ;     512 words ...Cancer cells and nervous system neurons may not look...describe how neurons (nerve cells) and cancer cells achieve the common goal of inhibiting...Lineberger Comprehensive Cancer Center. In cancer cells, blocking cell death allows them to...

Article: 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...