Posts Tagged ‘human tumours’

Washington, April 2 (ANI): Cannabinoids such as the main active component of marijuana (THC) have anticancer effects on human brain cancer cells, a new study has found. In the study, Guillermo Velasco and colleagues at Complutense University, Spain, found that THC induced the death of various human brain cancer cell lines and primary cultured human brain cancer cells by a process known as autophagy. Consistent with ... Full story

Washington, Mar 31 (ANI): An international team of researchers have developed a novel radiation-free technique that detects and eliminates breast cancer tumours. The team including researchers from California Institute of Technology (Caltech), the Israel Institute of Technology (Technion) and the Cedars-Sinai Medical Centre have shown ... Full story

London, March 12 (ANI): Scientists in California have announced the creation of molecules that transform mouse antibodies into potent cancer killers. Carlos Barbas, of the Scripps Research Institute in La Jolla, says that the dumb-bell shaped "adaptor" molecules bind mouse antibodies to proteins on the surface of disease-causing agents, redirecting the antibodies' killing focus. In a previous study, the researchers attached these molecules to a single kind ... Full story