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Progress against sarcoma
04-09-2007 · EurekAlert!University of Utah geneticists have engineered mice that can develop synovial sarcoma -- a significant early step toward developing new treatments for the aggressive, deadly cancer that most often kills teenagers and young adults. The genetically engineered, cancer-stricken mice were used to determine that synovial sarcoma develops in muscle cell precursors known as myoblasts, the researchers report in the April issue of the journal Cancer Cell.
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- Mouse model advances understanding of synovial sarcoma
04-09-2007 · EurekAlert!
A mouse model for synovial sarcoma has enabled scientists to make tremendous progress toward understanding the origin and pathogenesis of this highly aggressive soft-tissue malignancy. The research, published in the April issue of the journal Cancer Cell, published by Cell Press, provides new information about the timing and environment required for initiation and progression of synovial sarcoma. The mouse model is also likely to serve as an invaluable resource for development of successful therapeutic strategies for this often lethal cancer.
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- Why Don't All Moles Progress To Melanoma?
10-05-2006 · ScienceDaily
Scientists know that 30 percent of all melanomas begin in a mole. They know that 90 percent of moles contain cancer-causing mutations. What scientists didn't know is how melanocytes stop these mutations from triggering the development of cancer. Maria S. Soengas, Ph.D., and other U-M scientists have found the answer to this important question in an unexpected place -- a structure inside cells called the endoplasmic reticulum.
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- Researchers make progress in studying genetic traits of India-born populations
12-21-2006 · EurekAlert!
Researchers conducting genetic analysis of India-born individuals in the US may have begun to shed light on the genetic variations of the diverse population of India.
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- Toward a test for detecting in childhood the risk of developing bipolar disorder and schizophrenia
03-14-2007 · EurekAlert!
A team from Centre de recherche Université Laval Robert-Giffard (CRULRG) has made significant progress toward finding a way to determine whether a child is likely to one day suffer from bipolar disorder or schizophrenia. The findings of the research team supervised by Dr. Michel Maziade, director of CRULRG, professor in Université Laval’s Faculty of Medicine, and Canada Research Chair in the Genetics of Neuropsychiatric Disorders, will be presented at the International Congress on Schizophrenia Research on March 31 in Colorado Springs.
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- A close-up on pancreatic disease: How do we improve the odds?
05-22-2007 · EurekAlert!
Pancreatic cancer is among the deadliest of today's cancers due to limited tools for early diagnosis and few effective treatments. Research presented today at Digestive Disease Week� 2007 takes a closer look at pancreatic cancer and the conditions that may lead to it, such as chronic pancreatitis, to evaluate the progress made to date, as well as the promising new applications of technology that will improve survival rates in the coming years. DDW is the largest international gathering of physicians and researchers in the fields of gastroenterology, hepatology, endoscopy and gastrointestinal surgery.
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- U of M study identifies medication that helps people with obsessive-compulsive disorder
07-19-2007 · EurekAlert!
Researchers at the University of Minnesota have found that a drug originally developed to fight tuberculosis may help people with obsessive-compulsive disorder make more progress in therapy sessions.
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- Contraception: progress brings hope for new methods for men
09-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
For decades, pundits have predicted new contraceptives for men within the next 5 to 10 years. Are we really getting any closer? Judging from work presented today at the second 'Future of Male Contraception' conference, the answer may finally be yes. Among the developments announced at the conference: new hormonal approaches, a vasectomy alternative, and a home sperm count test.
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- UC Davis researchers identify a cellular pathway that makes prostate cancer fatal
11-27-2007 · EurekAlert!
Expanding evidence that tiny strands of RNA -- called microRNAs -- play big roles in the progress of some cancers, UC Davis researchers have identified one that helps jump start prostate cancer cell growth midway through the disease process, eventually causing it to become fatal.
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- CSHL scientists make progress in determining how the brain selectively interprets sound
01-29-2008 · EurekAlert!
Scientists at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory have reported new findings about how the mammalian brain interprets and fashions representations of sound that may help explain how we are able to focus on one particular sound among many in noisy environments such as offices or cocktail parties.
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- CTRC enrolls first patients in Novel Phase II study for sarcoma -- Living virus destroys cancer cell
07-24-2007 · EurekAlert!
The Cancer Therapy & Research Center Institute for Drug Development, in collaboration with Oncolytics Biotech Inc., a biotechnology company, has enrolled the first two patients in a new Phase II clinical study for patients with various types of sarcomas that have metastasized to the lung. The novel anti-cancer therapy, REOLYSIN, is a living virus, not a chemotherapy drug, that is toxic to cancer cells but not harmful to normal cells.
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