HDIs and oncology’s great hope
10 December, 2008 by Graeme O'NeillHistone deacetylase inhibitors (HDIs) have emerged as oncology’s Great Hope – rarely has a new class of drugs showed promise against such a broad range of cancers, including leukaemias, lymphomas and solid tumours.
Editing cancer with the immune system
09 December, 2008 by Fiona WylieMark Smyth is investigating a long-suspected but previously unproven role of the immune system – keeping cancer development in a holding pattern such that it neither grows nor gets ‘cured’.
Starpharma adds to STI inhibition
04 December, 2008 by Kate McDonaldMicrobicide inhibits HPV 16 and 18 in vivo
HIV proteins and cellular control
04 December, 2008 by Kate McDonaldThere are a multitude of potential targets that researchers throughout the world are studying in the fight against HIV, but this virus seems to have an answer for most of them.
Protein arrests cervical cancer growth
26 November, 2008 by Kate McDonaldBMP7 inhibits telomerase activity and cervical cancer cell growth
Polartechnics forecasts profit
25 November, 2008 by Kate McDonaldPolartechnics claims future profits in cervical cancer test
PEA and cancer cell self-cannibalisation
17 November, 2008 by Kate McDonaldUS researchers find protein induces autophagy in ovarian cancer
Sequencing the cancer genome
14 November, 2008 by Kate McDonaldPeter Campbell is part of a remarkably prolific group at the Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute that is using new technologies to sequence the cancer genome – or more correctly, genomes.
Acting on insulin
11 November, 2008 by Kate McDonaldGarvan researchers find novel action for insulin
City of Hope for HIV trial
22 October, 2008 by Kate McDonaldBenitec collaborator releases early results from RNAi trial for HIV
Go-ahead for LCT
21 October, 2008 by Dylan Bushell-EmblingLCT receives govt approval to trial DiabeCell porcine islets in NZ
Alzheimer’s study gets funding boost
14 October, 2008 by Staff WritersPfizer Australia invests in CSIRO Alzheimer’s biomarker study
Malaria genomes under the knife
10 October, 2008 by Kate McDonaldGenomes of two malaria parasite species sequenced
The relative differences of the malaria family
09 October, 2008 by Graeme O'NeillToby Sargeant has used new statistical techniques to trace the evolutionary development of the Plasmodium species of parasites and the relationship between different clades.
