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Stem Cell Findings May Offer Answers for Some Bladder Defects and Disease
For the first time, scientists have succeeded in coaxing laboratory cultures of human stem cells to develop into the specialized, unique cells needed to repair a patient's defective or diseased bladder.
View ArticleTime, Trust and Transparency Keys to Minority Biospecimen Collection
Biospecimen collection among diverse populations lags far behind that of whites. In work aimed at boosting these collection rates, researchers at UC Davis and collaborators at three other institutions...
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UC Davis Personalizing Outreach to Address Asian Cancer Health Disparities
In an effort to reduce cancer health disparities among Asian-Americans, UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center now offers individual, in-language education and culturally sensitive materials for every...
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Dual Role: Key Cell Division Proteins Also Power Up Mitochondria
An international team led by researchers at UC Davis has shown that the cyclin B1/Cdk1 protein complex, which plays a key role in cell division, also boosts the mitochondrial activity to power that...
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Tailored Intervention Has Low Impact on Colorectal Cancer Screening
Colorectal cancer screening saves lives, but too few people get tested. In an effort to increase these numbers,researchers from UC Davis and elsewhere investigated whether an individualized interactive...
View ArticleSurgical Biopsy Proves Safe for Selected Late-Stage Lung Cancer Patients
Researchers at UC Davis have determined that surgical biopsies can be safely performed on select patients with late-stage non-small cell lung cancer, which should enhance their access to drugs that...
View ArticleNew Combination Drug Controls Tumor Growth and Metastasis in Mice
Researchers at UC Davis, University of Massachusetts and Harvard Medical School have created a combination drug that controls both tumor growth and metastasis. By combining a COX-2 inhibitor, similar...
View ArticleNovel Drug Action Against Solid Tumors Explained
Researchers at UC Davis, City of Hope, Taipai Medical University and National Health Research Institutes in Taiwan have discovered how a drug that deprives the cells of a key amino acid specifically...
View ArticleIntroducing the Multi-Tasking Nanoparticle
Kit Lam and colleagues from UC Davis and other institutions have created dynamic nanoparticles (NPs) that could provide an arsenal of applications to diagnose and treat cancer. Built on an easy-to-make...
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Anti-Cancer Drug Effective Against Common Stem Cell Transplant Complication
Researchers at UC Davis have found that the drug bortezomib effectively treats chronic graft-versus-host disease (GVHD), a common and debilitating side effect from allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell...
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Obesity a Factor in Immunotherapy Toxicity
Immunotherapy that can be effective against tumors in young, thin mice can be lethal to obese ones, a new study by UC Davis researchers has found. The findings, published online today in The Journal of...
View Article'Tis the Season to Indulge in Walnuts
Researchers at UC Davis and other institutions have found that diets rich in whole walnuts or walnut oil slowed prostate cancer growth in mice. In addition, both walnuts and walnut oil reduced...
View ArticleComplex Interactions Between Proteins Rbm38 and p53 Govern Tumor Suppression,...
Scientists have long known the p53 protein suppresses tumors. However, a recent animal study by UC Davis researchers has uncovered a complicated relationship between p53 and another protein, Rbm38,...
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California Breast Density Law Slow to Have an Impact
Ten months after California legislators enacted a controversial law mandating that radiologists notify women if they have dense breast tissue, UC Davis researchers have found that half of primary care...
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UC Davis Scientists Describe Novel Drug Mechanism That Fights Brain Cancer
Researchers at UC Davis have developed and characterized a molecule that interferes with the internal regulation of cancer cells, causing them to self-destruct. This novel mechanism was found to be...
View ArticleProtein May Improve Liver Regeneration
Researchers at UC Davis have illuminated an important distinction between mice and humans: how human livers heal. The difference centers on a protein called PPARα, which activates liver regeneration....
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UC Davis Researchers Win Grant to Answer Key Questions in Surveillance of...
Two UC Davis researchers will help run a major national study to improve surveillance practices for patients with small lung nodules identified on CT imaging and extremely low risk for lung cancer.
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Comprehensive Genomic Tumor Profiling Comes to UC Davis
The UC Davis Comprehensive Cancer Center and the Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine have entered into a collaboration with Foundation Medicine, a leading molecular information company. The...
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NCI Funding Boosts Breast CT Scanning Research and Development
John M. Boone, a UC Davis medical physicist and professor of radiology, has been awarded a $2.88 million grant from the National Cancer Institute to further develop and research computed tomography...
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Surgery for Terminal Cancer Patients Still Common
The number of surgeries performed on terminally ill cancer patients has not dropped in recent years (break), despite more attention to the importance of less invasive care for these patients to relieve...
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