Overdosing vitamin A may seem rather harmless to most people, but recent studies presented in the FASEB Journal present the situation as the other way round. It is well known that vitamin A represents a key in the cellular production... (Continue reading)
A study undergone by scientists from the M. D. Anderson Cancer Center at the University of Texas discovered that people who were suffering from breast cancer in an advanced stage and were treated with the similar group of neo-adjuvant chemotherapy... (Continue reading)
Smoking and body mass index represent high risk factors connected to pancreatic cancer. It has been observed that black people are more affected by this disease than white people and thus, experience a higher mortality rate. Researchers recognize that they... (Continue reading)
Research published in the Journal of Cancer presented a study made by scientists from the Linus Pauling Institute at Oregon State University regarding the fact that there are some natural food agents that could treat cancer. The research was funded... (Continue reading)
The September issue of Sleep journal presents a study regarding the fact that chemotherapy affects the sleep-wake rhythm of women suffering from breast cancer. The first period of chemotherapy treatment impairs the sleep-wake cadence, whereas repetitive therapy with chemo worsens... (Continue reading)
Researchers from University of Michigan state that they have discovered a new method by which they can hold in place immune cells that are characterized by an aggressive reaction and attack the own cells of the human body. This... (Continue reading)
Shingosine-1-phosphate (S1P) represents a bioactive lipid messenger which can be found in our blood in large quantities. A team of scientists from the Virginia Commonwealth University School of Medicine observed that this lipid has an important role in developing a... (Continue reading)
The first research that studies the effects of twice-yearly applied denosumab treatment is going to be released in the August issue of the New England Journal of Med, but for those interested it can be retrieved earlier from the Internet.... (Continue reading)
The Journal of Thoracic Oncology published in its September issue a study regarding the narrow-band imagining. Researchers discovered that this mechanism supporting bronchoscopy may serve its purpose as another means of detecting the bronchoscopic cancer in its early development stages... (Continue reading)
Scholars from the Salk Institute for Biological Studies discovered that checkpoints for the cellular life cycle enable damaged cells to stop dividing and stall them. However, even if this molecular stop generated by the cell cycle checkpoints stops the cells,... (Continue reading)