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Cancer Treatment

Enhancing arrest of cell growth to treat cancer in mice

Contact: Karen Honey press_releases@the-jci.org 215-573-1850 Journal of Clinical Investigation A team of researchers, led by Pier Paolo... 

February 7, 2010 | Read the story »

A potent suppressor of endometrial cancer is revealed

Contact: Kristy Kain kristy.kain@vanderbilt.edu 615-343-1298 The Company of Biologists  Read More →

February 7, 2010 | Read the story »

A feasible and safe treatment for recurrent hepatocellular carcinoma in elderly patients

Contact: Ye-Ru Wang wjg@wjgnet.com 86-105-908-0039 World Journal of Gastroenterology Conventional hepatectomy is an effective way to... 

February 3, 2010 | Read the story »

Rice physicists kill cancer with ‘nanobubbles’

Contact: David Ruth druth@rice.edu 713-348-6327 Rice University Team finds method of IDing, destroying individual diseased cells  Read More →

February 3, 2010 | Read the story »

Stem Cell Research

Experimental stem cell treatment arrests acute lung injury in mice, study shows

Contact: Robert Cahill Robert.Cahill@uth.tmc.edu 713-500-3030 University of Texas Health Science Center at Houston Stem cell researchers... 

February 1, 2010 | Read the story »

Bone marrow cells are the answer hp stem cell breakthrough

Contact: Cody Mooneyhan cmooneyhan@faseb.org 301-634-7104 Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology  Read More →

January 27, 2010 | Read the story »

Disarming specialized stem cells might combat deadly ovarian cancer

Contact: Karen N. Peart karen.peart@yale.edu 203-432-1326 Yale University Eliminating cancer stem cells (CSCs) within a tumor could... 

January 26, 2010 | Read the story »

New way to generate abundant functional blood vessel cells from human stem cells discovered

Contact: Andrew Klein ank2017@med.cornell.edu 212-821-0560 New York- Presbyterian Hospital/Weill Cornell Medical Center/Weill Cornell... 

January 19, 2010 | Read the story »

Diabetes

Early artificial pancreas trials show benefits for kids, teenagers with diabetes overnight

Contact: Joana Casas mcasas@jdrf.org 212-479-7650 Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation International  Read More →

February 4, 2010 | Read the story »

New study finds possible source of beta cell destruction that leads to Type 1 diabetes

Contact: Jina Gaines gainesjn@evms.edu 757-446-7070 Eastern Virginia Medical School  Read More →

February 3, 2010 | Read the story »

‘Artificial pancreas’ a step nearer for children with type 1 diabetes

Contact: Becky Allen becky.allen@admin.cam.ac.uk 44-122-333-2300 University of Cambridge Scientists in Cambridge have made a significant... 

February 3, 2010 | Read the story »

Scientists map out regulatory regions of genome, hot spots for diabetes genes

Contact: Tom Hughes tahughes@unch.unc.edu 919-966-6047 University of North Carolina School of Medicine  Read More →

February 1, 2010 | Read the story »

Heart Disease

Cholesterol’s link to heart disease gets clearer — and more complicated

Contact: Cathleen Genova cgenova@cell.com 617-397-2802 Cell Press By considering molecular-level events on a broader scale, researchers... 

February 1, 2010 | Read the story »

Landmark heart treatment study

Contact: Jim Ritter jritter@lumc.edu 708-216-2445 Loyola University Health System  Read More →

January 25, 2010 | Read the story »

Nanoparticles designed to target cardiovascular disease

Contact: Jen Hirsch jfhirsch@mit.edu 617-253-1682 Massachusetts Institute of Technology  Read More →

January 17, 2010 | Read the story »

Scientists find ‘missing link’ between heart failure and environment

Contact: Becky Allen becky.allen@admin.cam.ac.uk 44-012-233-32300 University of Cambridge Scientists have found what they believe is... 

January 11, 2010 | Read the story »

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