If you’ve been reading our journal for a while, you know I’m a big fan of OR-Live, an innovative web site that lets you watch cutting-edge medical procedures from the comfort of your own home. OR-Live covers a wide variety of operations going on around the country and tonight’s will involve a cancer patient. This [...]

Here’s a story from 60 Minutes about a device known as the Kanzius Machine that uses radio waves to destroy cancer cells. Video Enclosure: 60 Minutes Story on Kanzius Machine Developed by retired broadcaster and leukemia patient John Kanzius, the Kanzius Machine works by using a noninvasive radio wave generator to warm nanoparticles within cancer [...]

Scientists at the US Department of Energy (DOE) Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) have developed an environmentally friendly technique for determining which types of radiation exposure cause the most damage to human DNA – damage that can ultimately lead to cancer. BNL scientists Betsy Sutherland and Brigitte Paap, who’s now at Arizona State University, devised a [...]

If you’ve had the opportunity to read our manifesto, you already know that finding new and novel ways to improve scientific information sharing relating to cancer is what this publication is all about. During online research for articles on emerging cancer technologies and treatments, I’ve come across some entertaining and informative sites offering high quality [...]

Researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a new imaging system capable of detecting cancerous tumors a thousand times smaller than those visible to other medical imaging devices. The innovative imaging technique, known as Raman spectroscopy, relies on beacon signals created by nanoparticles injected into the body. A laser light is beamed [...]

Scientists at the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) have developed a new light-activated nanomachine which can store anticancer drugs and release them into cancer cells. Researchers from the California NanoSystems Institute and the Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA created the tiny cargo-carrying nanoparticles as a mechanism to deliver targeted chemotherapy drugs or dyes [...]

The Advanced Photon Source (APS) at the US Department of Energy’s Argonne National Laboratory is helping researchers gain a better understanding of enzymes that help regulate growth or, when not working properly, contribute to cancer development. A team of scientists led by Illinois Institute of Technology biologist Joseph Orgel used high energy x-rays from the [...]

The US Patent and Trademark Office has ruled one of three human embryonic stem cell patents currently held by the Wisconsin Alumni Research Foundation (WARF) is valid. The agency made the ruling in response to a series of challenges and appeals filed by WARF and the California-based Foundation for Taxpayer and Consumer Rights (FTCR). Decisions [...]

A team of international scientists has developed a new type of x-ray camera which has no lens, yet is powerful enough to capture images of tiny nanoscale features inside biological cells. The innovative device could help researchers gain a greater understanding of cancer by allowing them to view biological processes taking place inside whole human [...]

The National Science Foundation (NSF), Google Incorporated (NASDAQ: GOOG), and the IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM) have formed a partnership to create the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), an innovative tool designed to help the academic community conduct research projects that would otherwise be too expensive to explore. CluE is a new distributed computing resource consisting of approximately [...]