ITHACA, N.Y. -- Another weapon in the arsenal against cancer: Nanoparticles that identify, target and kill specific cancer cells while leaving healthy cells aloneLed by Carl Batt, the Liberty Hyde Bailey Professor of Food Science, the researchers synthesized nanoparticles – shaped something

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Zurich researchers have found a new treatment approach which they hope will help young leukaemia patients who don’t respond to conventional therapiesLeukaemia is a malignant disease of the blood and bone marrow, which accounts for a third of childhood cancersDespite great progress in leukae

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New breakthrough treatments for the most common cancers could soon come from cutting-edge research into some of the world's rarest tumorsAt the ESMO Conference on Sarcoma and GIST, to be held in Milan, Italy, on 9 and 10 March 2010, researchers and some of the world's leading experts will discuss

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New World hemorrhagic fevers are emerging infectious diseases found in South America that can cause terrible, Ebola-like symptomsCurrent treatments are expensive and only partially effectiveNow, Howard Hughes Medical Institute (HHMI) researchers have discovered exactly how one type of New World h

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INDIANAPOLIS -- The gene for a newly recognized disease has been identified thanks to the determination of an Amish father and the clinical skills and persistence of Indiana University and Riley Hospital for Children physicians in collaboration with physicians and researchers at the Clinic for The

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A study into why some people are more resistant than others to diseases such as tuberculosis (TB) and leprosy has identified a new genetic variant which affects susceptibility to these diseasesThe findings, published today in the journal Cell, may have implications for future treatments for the tw

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University of Washington (UW) researchers have identified a gene involved in susceptibility and resistance to tuberculosisThis same gene, they have found, has a role in the severity of leprosy, which is caused by a related pathogen. The researchers also have learned why this gene is important for

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GALVESTON, Texas -- Imagine a mosquito-borne virus that has already infected millions of people in recent outbreaks in South and Southeast Asia, the islands of the Indian Ocean, Africa and northern ItalyAlthough seldom fatal, it causes highly painful arthritis-like symptoms that can linger for mon

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COLUMBUS, Ohio -- Researchers have discovered a key reason why a form of leukemia progresses from its more-treatable chronic phase to a life-threatening phase called blast crisisThe study, led by cancer researchers at the Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center-Arthur G. James Cancer Hos

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National Institutes of Health (NIH) scientists investigating how prion diseases destroy the brain have observed a new form of the disease in mice that does not cause the sponge-like brain deterioration typically seen in prion diseasesInstead, it resembles a form of human Alzheimer's disease, cereb

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