(Nanowerk News) Suicide gene therapy is a cancer treatment strategy that targets tumors with toxic genes, or genes encoding enzymes that produce toxic compounds. However, since restricting suicide gene expression to the tumor is difficult, this approach can damage non-cancerous cells.
Now, Shu Wang of the Institute of Bioengineering and Nanotechnology of A*STAR, Singapore, and co-workers have successfully treated glioma in the...
IsoRay and Hologic Sign Exclusive Worldwide License for Crucial Brain Cancer Treatment Device
FDA-Cleared GliaSite® Balloon Catheter Is World's Only Device to Deliver Liquid Radiation Source Therapy
RICHLAND, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IsoRay, Inc. (Amex: ISR) announced today that it has completed a license agreement with Hologic, Inc. (NASDAQ:HOLX) for exclusive worldwide distribution rights to the GliaSite®...
(Reuters) - British scientists who conducted the largest study yet into cell phone masts and childhood cancers say that living close to a mast does not increase the risk of a pregnant woman's baby developing cancer.
In a study looking at almost 7,000 children and patterns of early childhood cancers across Britain, the researchers found that those who developed cancer before the age of five were no more likely to...
Scientific American
June 23, 2010
By Brian Vastag
A new generation of oncolytic viruses are entering late-stage clinical trials, repurposing smallpox and herpesvirus to take on tough tumors
The adapted virus that immunized hundreds of millions of people against smallpox has now been enlisted in the war on cancer. Vaccinia poxvirus joins a herpesvirus and a host of other pathogens on a growing list of engineered viruses entering late-stage human testing...
By John D. Sutter, CNN
June 16, 2010 10:36 a.m. EDT
CNN) -- San Francisco, California, likely will become the first U.S. city to require cell phone companies to disclose how much radiation their gadgets emit.
The city's board of supervisors voted 10-1 on Tuesday in favor of a law that would require handset makers to post in stores how much wireless radiation their phones give off, according to the San Francisco Chronicle.
