Tuesday, November 24, 2015

Cancer Research:Bacteria from the sea join the fight against cancer,♦ Sensory illusion causes cells to self-destruct ♦ Long-term outcomes in childhood, young adult cancer survivors

Bacteria from the sea join the fight against cancer, infections Scientists are opening the gates of nature’s secret medicine factories, with the aim of giving us new weapons against cancers and resistant bacteria. They are developing technology that will make it easier to find – and exploit – these hidden and unutilised medicine factories in bacteria that exist in the natural environment. The hunt will concentrate on marine bacteria.
Sensory illusion causes cells to self-destruct Magic tricks work because they take advantage of the brain's sensory assumptions, tricking audiences into seeing phantoms or overlooking sleights of hand. Now a team of researchers has discovered that even brainless single-celled yeast have sensory biases that can be hacked by a carefully engineered illusion, a finding that could be used to develop new approaches to fighting diseases such as cancer.
Long-term outcomes in childhood, young adult cancer survivors Recent work has focused on long-term outcomes in survivors of childhood or young adult cancer. Among other findings, researchers found that cancer survivors had an overall increased relative risk for hospitalization compared with those in the general population. Cancer survivors at highest risk for hospitalizations were leukemia, brain cancer and Hodgkin lymphoma survivors
Better catalysts will remove carcinogenic chlorine compounds from water Two new catalysts have been developed as effective treatment of tap water. With these catalysts, researchers intend to eliminate harmful chlorine compounds

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