Biotech

Genetic test for Herceptin infrequently used, study says. A genetic test to determine if women should receive Roche’s (ROG.VX) breast cancer drug is frequently not given, U.S. researchers said on Monday. Up to two thirds of patients with aggressive breast cancer had no documentation of the test in their health insurance records, according to a study [...]

Watch it, guys! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CD7FXn-W_v4 Premiered at the BIO Convention 2009 in Atlanta, this video explores childhood cancer on a personal, scientific, and policy level. Every sixteen hours, a child dies from Neuroblastoma, a cancer almost always found in children. Unless doctors are given new drugs to treat them, many more will fall victim to this nightmare disease. [...]

  What’s the connection between them, anyway? Is there any? Let’s see,  Canadian researchers recently said that various proteins interact in tumors can help predict a woman’s chances of surviving breast cancer. It is allowing doctors to better tailor treatment too. Check this, The researchers analyzed networks of proteins — chemical compounds vital in cellular processes — in [...]

Well readers, this is another advantages for ya’ll who are the coffee lovers. Turned out that new research indicates that drinking coffee lowers the risk of developing cancer of the oral cavity or throat, at least in the general population of Japan. The consumption of coffee in Japan is relatively high, as is the rate of [...]

Good news for you, coffee drinkers. Some studies shows that caffeine in a coffee kill off cells damaged by ultraviolet light. Exposure to ultraviolet light, or may we call it UV light, is one of the important factors in causing nonmelanoma skin cancers, which is the most common form of cancer in humans. Those study [...]

Everybody in this world, i’m sure, would agree that fruits and vegetables are indeed good to consume. Yes, and they turn out can help the damage cells stop growing. How, oh how? Hohoho. Guys, i’ll explain this in a very-dummy-way. Let’s go! Cells in our body are growing everyday. They all grow, not only the health [...]

Do you notice what’s in the pic above? Yes, they are tomatoes. We usually see tomatoes with a red colour on their skins. But nowadays, an European group of researchers have successfully expressed genes from the Snapdragon flower in tomatoes, resulting to deep-purple colored tomatoes. Yes, that’s why i titled this post with Perfect Purple. [...]

Scientists from the German Cancer Research Center have found that an antibiotic called “griseofulvin” able to lead cancer cells to cell death. Griseofulvin is an antibiotic that is ussualy used to treat fungal infections of the skin! Wow… The scientists identified that the antibiotic is an inhibitor of centrosomal clustering. By this discovery, they suggested that [...]