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New Tool to Aid in Surgery?
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[11/01/2013] A new tool that could allow for faster, more comprehensive testing of brain tissue during surgery successfully identified the cancer type, grade and tumor margins in five brain surgery patients. New Tool to Aid in Surgery? - Read more
Treating Drug-resistant Tumour Cells
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[05/06/2012] New research from the University of Wisconsin-Madison explains why the incurable brain cancer, glioblastoma multiforme (GBM), is highly resistant to current chemotherapies. Treating Drug-resistant Tumour Cells - Read more
New Technique Mimics the Brain
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[24/05/2012] A new technique that converts stem cells into brain cells has been developed by researchers at Lund University. The method is simpler, quicker and safer than previous research has shown and opens the doors to a shorter route to clinical cell transplants. New Technique Mimics the Brain - Read more
”We are not limited to one active ingredient group or one active ingredient“
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[08/05/2012] Drugs that treat brain diseases such as Alzheimer’s disease or multiple sclerosis are most effective directly where they are needed – in the brain. Unfortunately, it is difficult to develop drugs that are capable of getting there specifically, since the so-called blood-brain barrier prevents this from happening. However, now a team led by Doctor Heiko Manninga succeeded in doing precisely that. ”We are not limited to one active ingredient group or one active ingredient“ - Read more
Role of Proteins in the Cell Environment
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[14/12/2011] How astrocytes, certain cells of the nervous system, are generated was largely unknown up to now. Researchers of Ruhr-Universität Bochum (Germany) have now investigated what influence the cell environment, known as the extracellular matrix, has on this process. Role of Proteins in the Cell Environment - Read more
Metabolic Protein Plays Unexpected Role
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[07/11/2011] The embryonic enzyme pyruvate kinase M2 (PKM2) has a well-established role in metabolism and is highly expressed in human cancers. Now, a team led by researchers at the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Centre reports that PKM2 has important non-metabolic functions in cancer formation. Metabolic Protein Plays Unexpected Role - Read more
Dioxin-like Chemical Messenger Makes Brain Tumours More Aggressive
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[07/10/2011] A research alliance of Heidelberg University Hospital and the German Cancer Research Centre (Deutsches Krebsforschungszentrum, DKFZ), jointly with colleagues of the Helmholtz Centre for Environmental Research in Leipzig, have discovered a new metabolic pathway which makes malignant brain tumours (gliomas) more aggressive and weakens patients’ immune systems. Dioxin-like Chemical Messenger Makes Brain Tumours More Aggressive - Read more
Incidental Findings – Dilemma for Doctors and Patients
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[16/06/2010] Paediatricians whose patients undergo "routine" brain MRIs need a plan to deal with findings that commonly reveal unexpected-but-benign anomalies that are unlikely to cause any problem, reports a research team led by Johns Hopkins Children's Centre investigators. Incidental Findings – Dilemma for Doctors and Patients - Read more
Delivering Medicine into a Tumour
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[14/12/2009] Researchers have identified a peptide (a chain of amino acids) that specifically recognizes and penetrates cancerous tumours but not normal tissues. Delivering Medicine into a Tumour - Read more
No Change in Brain Tumour Incidence
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[07/12/2009] There was no substantial change in brain tumour incidence among adults five to ten years after cell phone usage sharply increased, according to a new brief communication. This does not mean, however, that there is no risk. No Change in Brain Tumour Incidence - Read more
Lighting up Tumors
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[18/08/2009] Researchers have been able to illuminate brain tumors by injecting fluorescent nanoparticles into the bloodstream that safely cross the blood-brain barrier – an almost impenetrable barrier that protects the brain from infection. Lighting up Tumors - Read more
Method Predicts which Tumors Will Respond to Drug
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[12/08/2009] Researchers at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), have uncovered a new way to scan brain tumors and predict which ones will be shrunk by the drug Avastin - before the patient ever starts treatment. Method Predicts which Tumors Will Respond to Drug - Read more
Cell Therapy Advanced
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[04/08/2009] By miniaturizing a device that monitors the delivery of healthy cells, researchers are developing a powerful instrument for physicians to use in treating patients with Parkinson's syndrome, brain tumors and other diseases. Cell Therapy Advanced - Read more
Noninvasive Brain Tumor Treatment Is Possible
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[26/06/2009] Duke University engineers have taken a first step toward a minimally invasive treatment of brain tumors by combining chemotherapy with heat administered from the end of a catheter. Noninvasive Brain Tumor Treatment Is Possible - Read more
New Possible Marker for Severity
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[07/04/2009] Researchers have identified a new biological indicator that may help identify which brain-cancer patients have the most aggressive forms of the disease. New Possible Marker for Severity - Read more
To Be in the Know with Every Detail (Part 3)
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[15/10/2008] by Wiebke Heiss / MEDICA.de
To Be in the Know with Every Detail (Part 3) - Read more
