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A compound that appears to target the master cells which help breast cancers grow and spread has been discovered by US scientists.Some 16,000 chemicals were tested by researchers In tests in mice, salinomycin killed breast cancer stem cells far more effectively than some existing drugs, and slowed tumour growth. The drug, a farm antibiotic, has yet to be tested in humans, the journal Cell reports. But UK experts warned a human version could be some years away. This is one of the biggest advances we have seen this year in this area of research Dr John Stingl Cancer Research UK...

Scientists say they have discovered a missing link in the way cells protect themselves against cancer.Zebrafish share the p53 gene with humans They have uncovered how cells switch a gene called p53, which can block the development of tumours, on and off. The researchers say the finding has important implications for cancer treatment and diagnosis. The study, published in Genes And Development, was carried out by teams of scientists in Singapore and the University of Dundee. Discovering how it is regulated will have incredibly important implications in the development of better drugs and ways to diagnose cancer Lesley WalkerCancer Research...

NOTE: it can now be revealed. My trip to the Northeast, in which we screened HILLARY! UNCENSORED, began as a trip to attend the Denise Rich Angel Ball. It is a long story, but I'll have to give the short version. A friend invited me to join her party at the Ball. She had arranged a major donation of artwork for the charity auction and was supposed to have a table for 10. Unfortunately, it didn't quite work out that way, and they only allowed two to attend the Ball. The rest of us were allowed to go to the...

Cancer cure 'may be available in two years' By Nic Fleming Science Correspondent  Last Updated: 8:26pm BST 19/09/2007   Cancer sufferers could be cured with injections of immune cells from other people within two years, scientists say. Red tape hinders cancer research, says reportUS researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of “super strength” cancer-killing cells from donors.Dr Zheng Cui, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, has shown in laboratory experiments that immune cells from some people can be almost 50 times more effective in fighting cancer than in others.Dr Cui, whose work is highlighted...

Speak with University of Texas at Arlington cancer researcher and biochemistry professor Sharad Singhal and it's easy to come away with a conviction that you've just met one of the smartest guys on the planet.Then turn around in the same lab and darned if there isn't another one, Sanjay Awasthi, full-time M.D./oncologist and somehow part-time biochemistry professor. Call it an intellectual tie.Fortunately, all that brain power collaborates on research, a beneficial partnership for mankind. Their laboratory experiments with mice have stopped several types of cancer cold and in a hurry. Without harming the mice. They'll soon be ready to move...

A midweek thread celebrating our entry into the Top 300 Folding teams in the world! First, a big shout out to the SETI and BOINC members who have added CPUs to the effort. Remember, its Team 36120, NOT Team 0. Next, congrats to all for bumping our team up to 667 processors and 239 user names. We have a number of new users in the team, with over 50 computers now from GetLoaded.com, a trucking website, all contributing while their owners ply our freeways keeping the nation moving. After over a year of folding, Team 36120, composed of FReepers honoring...

I know a number of you would like to have an update on our Cure-A-Thon last Friday. We set a record. You people came through. I cannot thank you enough. We set an all-time record. Just as of the close of business on Sunday, the whole weekend, we raised a grand total of over a million dollars, a million sixty-two thousand dollars in three hours on Friday. If you add up the total time in those three hours that we were talking about our Cure-A-Thon, we maybe totaled an hour of the three. You folks are amazing out there, simply...

BATTLE CREEK, MI. (11/23/2004)--Fourteen Episcopal women aged between 55 and 82 recently bared their breasts for charity in a copy cat of the movie Calendar Girls, to raise money for breast cancer research. Calling themselves The Belles of St. Mary's, the women bared nearly all in a photo pew op at St. Thomas Episcopal Church for a calendar they hope will raise money for the research. But a mother of four, Helen Cook, who attends the parish was outraged and wrote VirtueOnline to say so. "The calendar from the 'Belles of St. Mary' is the last straw for me. When...

By Gene J. Koprowski Published 11/24/2004 11:56 AM CHICAGO, Nov. 24 (UPI) -- A team of scientists is developing a "virtual tumor," a computer model viewed over the Internet by cancer researchers around the globe. It is used to observe the tumor as it develops from a single cell organism to a neoplasm, an uncontrolled growth of tissue.The cutting-edge project, in the planning stages right now, and others like it, promise to harness the power of the Internet in the battle against cancer -- and in other crucial scientific endeavors -- in the coming years, experts told UPI's The Web.Last...

JERUSALEM (AFP) - Researchers at Israel's Weizmann Institute said Tuesday they have managed for the first time to halt the spread of colon cancer cells in laboratory tests. Scientists at the center near Tel Aviv believe that their breakthrough could help pharmaccologists develop drugs to prevent or reverse colon cancer, which is the second most common form of cancer in men and third with women. The researchers found that the metastatic, or migrating nature of colon cancer cells, results from the malfunctioning of "cell-gluing" molecules including beta-catenin, which can lead to cells breaking loose from tissue and migrating to form...