Bringing together the high-quality 3D images of MRI with the intense tumor-killing x-rays of a linear accelerator, scientists at the Alberta Cancer Board are building a prototype that could for the first time enable powerful x-ray beams to become a viable treatment option for liver, stomach and pancreatic cancers, which currently must be treated with surgery, drugs, or internal radioactive seeds in most cases.
Studies by scientists at the Karmanos Cancer Institute and Wayne State University in Michigan have discovered a correlation between the speed of ultrasound transmitted through breast tissue and the density of that tissue.
Prof. Karen Avraham, chair of the department of human molecular genetics and biochemistry at Tel Aviv University?s Sackler School of Medicine, represented EuroHear, a consortium of 25 European, Israeli and U.K.-based research teams, at the European U nion conference ?Hearing and Seeing: European Research to Fight Deafness and Blindness,? held at Paris?s College de France on July 2-3, 2007.
Putting bacteria on birth control could stop the spread of drug-resistant microbes, and researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill have found a way to do just that.
University of Florida and University of Michigan scientists isolated nearly 200 proteins from the urine of patients with and without bladder cancer. Several appear promising as potential biomarkers, including one that studies conducted elsewhere have already linked to liver and ovarian cancer.
Now that screening for genes that predispose a woman to breast cancer is routinely available, women at an increased risk are looking for ways to keep themselves healthy. Insoo Bae, PhD, a junior faculty member of the Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center at Georgetown University Medical Center received a $2 million research award from Susan G. Komen for the Cure to do just that.
Scientists have made significant advances towards the development of a technique that could be used to confirm whether someone is infected with variant CJD.
Researchers at the University of Alberta have identified a “central command system” for pulmonary hypertension, a disease that currently has no cure and kills thousands each year.
It infiltrates hospitals as microscopic spores. Its defenses are so strong it can resist most antibiotics. And it kills three times as many people every year as MRSA. But scientists at the University of Nottingham are amassing an arsenal of weapons in preparation for counter offensive against the most deadly of hospital superbugs.
Scientists in Israel have been able to obtain and freeze eggs from the ovarian tissue of girls as young as 5 years old, the 23rd annual conference of the European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology will hear on Tuesday.