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” Optical technologies are promising futures in medical technology “: this was the major finding at the 6th symposium “Light for Health ” [1 ], which took place from 23 to 24 September 2010 in Ulm (Baden – Wurttemberg).
Schavan , Federal Minister for Education and Research , along with 200 doctors , naturalists, scientists and economists have current information about new optical technologies against Alzheimer’s , sepsis and cancer.
Biophotonics research works both on the treatment of advanced disease through preventive medicine and the other on the development of more effective therapies . Its goal is to use optical technology to understand the causes of disease , establish a clear and precise diagnosis , provide appropriate treatment and possibly cure patients. Schavan stressed the importance and role of biophotonics in treatments of tomorrow: “Treat the disease at the root instead of relieving the symptoms, it is in this context that the Federal Ministry for Education and Research ( BMBF ) is investing . ”
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If you combine the data for all users regardless of the frequency of use, there are fewer cancers among users than among non-users
The largest study ever done so far on the possible risks of tumors through the use of mobile phones has failed to provide a conclusive answer.
Within dell’Interphone International Study Group, Jack Siemiatycki, an epidemiologist at the University of Montreal, Canada, has coordinated a group of 21 colleagues from Australia, Canada, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Israel, Italy and Japan, New Zealand, Norway, Sweden and the UK. The study involved more than 10,000 people divided into several categories: mobile phone users, not users, users who have survived a brain tumor and survivors who have never used.
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On the place of Boston, the focus of pharmaceutical companies is cancer research. The French company Sanofi-Aventis, for example, based in Cambridge has decided to change its platform for proteomics research platform dedicated to oncology research. The situation in Boston joined a national priority highlighted by the Obama Administration. Reflecting the government’s willingness to give impetus to this sector, President Barack Obama has appointed to head the National Cancer Institute (NCI), Harold Varmus, former director of NIH (National Institutes of Health) under the President Clinton and Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1989.
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More than 200 scientists involved in the international consortium to study the cancer genome published today in the journal Nature their latest developments. The shared objective is a total of 25,000 sequenced genomes of the 50 most important cancers. More than 20 Spanish researchers who signed the article have sequenced the complete genomes of the first five people who have the disease.
Spanish researchers have sequenced and analyzed the first successful complete genomes of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, the most common type of adult leukemia in Western countries. This work represents the contribution of Spain to the International Genomics Consortium Cancer (ICGC, its acronym in English), which involves researchers from over 10 countries to sequence the 50 major types of cancer and whose initial results have been published today in the journal Nature.
This important progress in the fight against cancer can understand and identify the genetic alterations involved in cancer development and progression of chronic lymphocytic leukemia, which will develop diagnostic tools and find more effective therapies and accurate.
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A study at EPFL (Ecole Polytechnic Federal Lausanne) allows discover role important that system plays Lymphatic developing cancer.
How cancer thwarts Does alertness immune system? Mechanism key in this domain recently been unearthed at Ecole polytechnique Federal Lausanne. A study by Melody Swartz Professor and Lab director Mechanobiology and morphogenesis (LMBM) showed how tumor reaches avoid System Attacks immune adopter characteristics a ganglion and create thus environment favorable its development. This discovery, published in “Science“And”Science Express” March 25, puts in light role important system plays Lymphatic disease. Moreover she opens track to possible new treatments cons cancer.
“The tumor deceives body into thinking she is a fabric healthy”, describes Melody Swartz. To understand how disease winning goodwill tolerate by system she and his team concentrated on protein naturally in nodes lymphatic for attracting lymphocytes T and program them staff functions immune vital. Researchers discovered that certain tumors were capable secrete this protein, giving their layer external appearance a ganglion.
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Manuel Serrano, Head of the Tumor Suppression of National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), comments in an article published in the journal Nature the latest research on the relationship between cell senescence and cancer. Part of the results was published last month in Nature Cell Biology and another part is published today in Nature. The works are very useful for developing future therapies.
Two recent studies have attempted to sensitize the mechanisms leading to senescence. One such research is published today in the journal Nature and comes from the group led by Pier Paolo Pandolfi (Harvard University, USA). The first investigation, led by Bruno Amati (European Institute of Oncology, Milan) was published last month in Nature Cell Biology and attended also investiogadores Mariano Barbacid and Oscar Fernandez-Capetillo.
Both groups have managed to genetically engineer mice to make them more susceptible to stress and therefore tumor to senescence. Thus they have failed to protect mice without causing cancer, in addition, no adverse side effects.
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Manuel Serrano, Head of the Tumor Suppression of National Cancer Research Center (CNIO), comments in an article published in the journal Nature, the latest research on the relationship between cell senescence and cancer and whose results were published recently. One of the investigations have discussed the participation of researchers and Oscar Mariano Barbacid CNIO FERNENDEZ-Capetillo.
Manuel Serrano explains how you can induce cellular senescence or aging in tumor cells and prevent cancer.
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A team of scientists at the Georgia Institute of Technology and Institute for the fight against ovarian cancer has perfected a potential new treatment against cancer. This treatment uses magnetic nanoparticles that attach to cancer cells, facilitating their elimination. The treatment, tested in mice 2008, has now tested using samples from human cancer patients.
“We are interested primarily in developing an effective to reduce the spread to other organs of cancer cells ovarian “said John McDonald, professor of the School of Biology Georgia Tech Institute.
The idea came to the research team for the work of Ken Scarberry. Originally Scarberry conceived the idea as a means of extracting viruses and vi-rally infected cells. But then he started consider how it might operate the system with cancer cells.
In a first study, McDonald and he applied to cancer cells of the mice a fluorescent green tag and the red colored magnetic nanoparticles. Then, using a magnet, they managed to move the green cancer cells to the abdominal region.
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22. February 2010 Craig Venter of the world now knows almost everything. For example, that he was not a very good student. The fact that he has served as a twenty in Vietnam. That he is twice divorced, a 30-meter yacht, a Porsche, an IQ of 142 and an ego the size of an oil tanker holds. Only the Nobel Prize, which he still lacks. Some say he would never be one because he was a veritable asshole.
By Seong Jin Kim, we know even less. The South Koreans were in the early eighties, a language teacher in the American Peace Corps, made an unremarkable career as a scientist in the United States and now heads an institute for research on cancer and diabetes in his home country.
Also Marjolein Kriek is not a big celebrity. The 36-year-old is still at the beginning of their academic career. Three years ago, she has completed her PhD at the University of Leiden, in which she has been dealing with genetic diseases that lead to mental retardation. Their ancestors could come from Armenia.
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The search for new antitumor compounds is essential in the fight against cancer. Vitamin D has protective actions against various malignancies, including colon cancer. Its mechanism of action appears to be due, at least in part, as researchers have noted the Institute for Biomedical Research “Alberto Sols” (CSIC-(AM), the regulation of genes related to protein degradation.
Vitamin D is essential for humans. Obtained in a small percentage of the diet, as there are few foods rich in this compound, mainly synthesized in the skin by the action of sunlight.
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Schavan , Federal Minister for Education and Research , along with 200 doctors , naturalists, scientists and economists have current information about new optical technologies against Alzheimer’s , sepsis and cancer.