One of the biggest challenges in cancer therapy is being able to sufficiently deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumors...

Originally shared by Cosimo Scarpa

One of the biggest challenges in cancer therapy is being able to sufficiently deliver chemotherapy drugs to tumors without exposing healthy tissues to their toxic effects. Magnetic bacteria are a promising vehicle for more efficiently delivering tumor-fighting drugs, researchers have demonstrated.

#cancer #medicine #bacteria
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2016/09/160922093326.htm

Complete List Of Cancer Fighting Foods

Originally shared by Simonne Lancaster

Complete List Of Cancer Fighting Foods

#health #healthyeating #healthyliving #eatright #cancer #food
http://healthyfoodquotes.com/complete-list-of-cancer-fighting-foods

Cytotoxic T cells

Originally shared by Corina Marinescu

Cytotoxic T cells
A cytotoxic T cell  is a T lymphocyte (a type of white blood cell) that kills cancer cells, cells that are infected (particularly with viruses), or cells that are damaged in other ways.

There are billions of T cells within our blood – one teaspoon full of blood alone is believed to have around 5 million T cells, each measuring around 10 micrometres in length, about a tenth the width of a human hair. Each cell is engaged in the ferocious and unrelenting battle to keep us healthy.

The cells, seen in the animation as orange or green amorphous ‘blobs’ move around rapidly, investigating their environment as they travel. When a cytotoxic T cell finds an infected cell or, in the case of the animation, a cancer cell (blue), membrane protrusions rapidly explore the surface of the cell, checking for tell-tale signs that this is an uninvited guest.

The T cell binds to the cancer cell and injects poisonous proteins known as cytotoxins (red) down special pathways called microtubules to the interface between the T cell and the cancer cell, before puncturing the surface of the cancer cell and delivering its deadly cargo.

Source:
http://www.cam.ac.uk/research/news/bodys-serial-killers-captured-on-film-destroying-cancer-cells#sthash.6UhIhxZr.dpuf

Animation:
The time-lapse footage was created by stitching together microscopic slices of the killer cells and their quarry, according to a written statement released by the University of Cambridge. It shows T cells (orange or green blobs) encountering cancer cells (blue blobs) and injecting them with lethal proteins known as cytotoxins (red).

Paper:
http://www.cell.com/immunity/abstract/S1074-7613%2815%2900173-9

Article:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/05/19/t-cell-video-killers-video_n_7298828.html?ncid=edlinkushpmg00000030

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#health #meditation

#health   #meditation  

Originally shared by Tomáš Hluska

I found this in my stream yesterday (sorry for not giving the full credit).
Well, it seems that meditation can help to breast cancer survivors to keep the length of their telomeres (which are ends of the chromosomes, not proteins).
I'd bet it's connected with the cortisol level they mention in the abstract.

So what's your opinion?


#cancer #meditation #science #health #BreastCancer  
http://www.sciencealert.com/world-first-evidence-suggests-that-meditation-alters-cancer-survivors-cells

//Science Sunday

Originally shared by Lorna Salgado

//Science Sunday 

Study: Marijuana prevents spread of cancer

Cannabidiol, a non-toxic marijuana-like compound, can stop metastasis in aggressive forms of the disease

Two scientists at California Pacific Medical Center in San Francisco have found that cannabidiol (CBD), a non-toxic marijuana compound that delivers many of weed’s benefits without the high, might stop metastasis in aggressive cancer, “potentially altering the fatality of the disease forever.”

The pair, molecular biologist Pierre Desprez and researcher Sean McAllister, mixed CBD and cells with high levels of ID-1, the gene that spreads cancer, in a petri dish. What happened next was a bit of a miracle: ID-1 cells stopped spreading and returned to normal.

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#sciencesunday   #cancer  
http://www.salon.com/2012/09/23/study_marijuana_prevents_spread_of_cancer/