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Cancer cells are already stressed by the fast pace they require to grow and spread and scientists believe a little more stress just may kill them.

(Fox Chase Cancer Center) A study of how BubR1 helps make sure chromosomes are equally distributed during mitosis might explain how the process of cell division goes so awry in cancer, according to researchers from Fox Chase Cancer Center.

Mutations in BubR1 lead to a genetic rearrangement similar to a process that allows cancer cells to evade destruction by medical treatment.

Inhibiting BubR1 could be a strategy that enhances the killing power of current therapeutics.

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Researchers have discovered a metabolic deficiency in pancreatic cancer cells that can be used to slow the progress of the deadliest of all cancers.

Scientists have developed a new drug delivery system that is capable of crossing the blood-brain barrier to reach and kill cancer cells in the brain.

Following successful preclinical studies, the technology is being evaluated in two phase I clinical trials in patients with malignant glioma and brain metastases.

(University of California - Riverside) The leading cause of death in all cancer patients continues to be the resistance of tumor cells to chemotherapy, a form of treatment in which chemicals are used to kill cells.

A study by UC Riverside biochemists reports that ingesting apigenin -- a naturally occurring dietary agent found in vegetables and fruit -- improves cancer cells' response to chemotherapy.

Apigenin localizes tumor suppressor p53, a protein, in the cell nucleus -- a necessary step for killing the cell.

U.S. Department of Energy Under Secretary for Science Dr. Raymond L. Orbach has congratulated Osamu Shimomura, Martin Chalfie and Roger Y.

Tsien for co-winning the 2008 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for transforming a green fluorescent protein from jellyfish into one of the most important tools of molecular biology that researchers now use to watch such previously invisible processes as the development of nerve cells in the brain or how cancer cells are formed.

(University of Washington) Researchers at the University of Washington have updated a traditional Chinese medicine to create a compound that is more than 1,200 times more specific in killing certain kinds of cancer cells than currently available drugs, heralding the possibility of a more effective chemotherapy drug with minimal side effects.

Normal gut bacteria are thought to be involved in colon cancer but the exact mechanisms have remained unknown.

Now, scientists have discovered that a molecule produced by a common gut bacterium activates signalling pathways that are associated with cancer cells.

The research, published in the Journal of Medical Microbiology, sheds light on the way gut bacteria can cause colon cancer.