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7/1/2009
Researchers Testing Virus-Gene Therapy Combination Against Melanoma
Researchers at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center are injecting a modified herpes virus into melanoma tumors, hoping to kill the cancer cells while also bolstering the body’s immune defenses against the disease.
Gregory Daniels, MD, PhD, assistant ...More...
6/29/2009
Data Shows Incision-free Procedure Reverses Weight Regain after Gastric Bypass Surgery
Patients who have regained weight after gastric bypass surgery now have access to an incisionless procedure that appears highly effective at reversing weight gain, according to data presented at the annual meeting of the American Society of Metabolic...More...
6/29/2009
Have Fun, Be Safe: Summer Safety Tips from UC San Diego Medical Center
The staff at the UC San Diego Medical Center reminds our community of some simple but helpful precautions.
Sun & Skin
The Regional Burn Center at UC San Diego Medical Center treats many children and adults with severe sunburns during the summer sea...More...
6/29/2009
UC San Diego School of Medicine Appoints Founding Chief of New Division of Biomedical Informatics
The University of California, San Diego Health Sciences has appointed Lucila Ohno-Machado, MD, PhD, chief of its new Division of Biomedical Informatics in the Department of Medicine. Ohno-Machado will work closely with physicians at the UC San Diego...More...
6/25/2009
UC San Diego Physician-Author Turns Nightmare Childhood into Book of Dreams
Survivor of Cambodian “Killing Fields” Speaking Out to Inspire Others
When she was five years old, her family was taken by gunpoint and forced into slave labor in rural Cambodia. At seven, members of the Khmer Rouge decapitated her fath...More...
6/25/2009
Evolution of a Contraceptive for Sea Lamprey
Findings may help rescue Great Lakes fisheries
In addition to providing fundamental insights into the early evolution of the estrogen receptor, research by a team at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine may lead to a contracept...More...
6/24/2009
Surgeon Anne Wallace, MD, Honored by YWCA for Accomplishments, Leadership
Surgeon Anne Wallace, MD, professor of clinical surgery at the UC San Diego School of Medicine, is a 2009 recipient of the prestigious San Diego YWCA Tribute to Women & Industry (TWIN) Award. The award recognizes women for their outstanding achieveme...More...
6/22/2009
Robot Aids Treatment of Irregular Heartbeat at UC San Diego Medical Center
Patients seeking treatment for atrial fibrillation, an irregular heart beat, may benefit from a new technology now available at UC San Diego Medical Center. Gregory Feld, MD, professor of medicine at UC San Diego’s School of Medicine and direct...More...
6/17/2009
Tiny Infant Inspires Nice Guys to Give Lifesaving Gift
$400,000 Donation to UC San Diego Medical Center will Enhance Neonatal Intensive Care Unit
On Tuesday, June 16, 2009, representatives from UC San Diego Medical Center gathered to express thanks to the San Diego Nice Guys organization for donating $4...More...
6/16/2009
Measuring Brain Atrophy in Patients with Mild Cognitive Impairment
New, automated way of measuring brain structures appears effective in predicting progression to Alzheimer’s Disease
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have shown that a fully automated procedure called Vol...More...
6/8/2009
Let Me Sleep on It: Creative Problem Solving Enhanced by REM Sleep
Research led by a leading expert on the positive benefits of napping at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine suggests that Rapid Eye Movement (REM) sleep enhances creative problem-solving. The findings may have important implica...More...
6/4/2009
Auto-Inflammatory Disease Model Reveals Role for Innate, not Adaptive, Immunity
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have developed the first mouse model for auto-inflammatory diseases, disorders that involve the over-activation of the body’s innate, primitive immune system. Their stu...More...
6/3/2009
UC San Diego Health Sciences to Celebrate Graduation Weekend
Skaggs School of Pharmacy graduation June 6th; School of Medicine June 7th
A new generation of pharmacists and physicians will graduate from UC San Diego Schools of Pharmacy and Medicine on June 6th and 7th, 2009.
On Saturday, June 6th, 56 student...More...
5/29/2009
Happy, Healing Visit for Former Bannister Family House Residents
Australian Couple Returns to San Diego “On Holiday”
The last time Judy and Peter Schneider “visited” in San Diego County, their 26-year-old son, Robert, was fighting for life. On February 27, 2008, Robert suffered serious bu...More...
5/29/2009
Innovative UC San Diego Physician-Scientists Receive $1.4 Million in Burroughs-Wellcome Award Funding
Two of this year’s five awardees chosen to receive the Burroughs Wellcome Fund Career Awards for Medical Scientists (CAMS) are UC San Diego School of Medicine physician-scientists.
Pradipta Ghosh, MD, was recognized for research into the chang...More...
5/28/2009
How Oxidative Stress May Help Prolong Life
Oxidative stress has been linked to aging, cancer and other diseases in humans. Paradoxically, researchers have suggested that small exposure to oxidative conditions may actually offer protection from acute doses. Now, scientists at the University ...More...
5/28/2009
Study May Aid Efforts to Prevent Uncontrolled Cell Division in Cancer
Researchers from the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have uncovered a remarkable property of the contractile ring, a structure required for cell division. Understanding how the contr...More...
5/27/2009
Building BRIDGES between Women and Incontinence
UC San Diego Researchers Looking for Participants in Investigational Drug Research Study
Nearly 35 percent of women over 40 experience a potentially embarrassing problem called “urinary urge incontinence (UUI).” It can affect exercise, ...More...
5/22/2009
New Model Suggests Role of Low Vitamin D in Cancer Development
In studying the preventive effects of vitamin D, researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, have proposed a new model of cancer development that hinges on a loss of cancer cells’ ability to stick togethe...More...
5/21/2009
UC San Diego Physician Receives American Diabetes Association Recognition
Steven V. Edelman, MD, Honored with Outstanding Educator Award
Steven V. Edelman, MD, professor of medicine in the Division of Endocrinology, Diabetes & Metabolism at the University of California, San Diego, director of the Diabetes Care Clinic at ...More...
5/20/2009
Clinical Trial Evaluates Protein’s Ability to Grow New Blood Vessels, Reduce Angina Pain
As part of a multi-center clinical trial, UC San Diego Medical Center is evaluating the safety and effectiveness of a potential new way to treat angina — by injecting a protein that stimulates the growth of new oxygen-rich blood vessels directl...More...
5/19/2009
UC San Diego Epidemiologist Elizabeth Barrett-Connor
Honored for Osteoporosis Work
With a quick smile and bright eyes, she hardly looks old enough to be a “legend,” but that is exactly why Elizabeth Barrett-Connor, MD, a Distinguished Professor and Chief, Division of Epidemiology, Department of Family and Preventive Med...More...
5/19/2009
New Guidelines Point to Kidney Preservation for Cancer Patients
For the first time, the American Urological Association has issued a guideline specifying that complete removal of a kidney, total nephrectomy, is not the best treatment option for small kidney tumors. Total removal puts patients at significant risk ...More...
5/18/2009
The Future of Personalized Cancer Treatment: An Entirely New Direction for RNAi Delivery
In technology that promises to one day allow drug delivery to be tailored to an individual patient and a particular cancer tumor, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, have developed an efficient system for delive...More...
5/15/2009
Determining Success or Failure in Cholesterol-Controlling Drugs
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego have discovered that a complex network of interactions between drugs and the proteins with which they bind can explain adverse drug effects. Their findings suggest that adverse drug effects might...More...
5/14/2009
Immunotherapy Effective Against Neuroblastoma in Children
New therapy improves chances of living disease-free with difficult-to-treat childhood cancer
A phase III study has shown that adding an antibody-based therapy that harnesses the body’s immune system resulted in a 20 percent increase in the nu...More...
5/14/2009
Moores UCSD Cancer Center Offers Radiation Therapy in Encinitas Facility
The Department of Radiation Oncology at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center and the UC San Diego Medical Center have opened a satellite facility in Encinitas, offering the same types of radiation therapy services and similar opportunities for participation...More...
5/14/2009
Healthy Teen Weight Behaviors Linked to Regular Self-Weighing
In a study of 130 overweight adolescents, researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine found that frequent self-weighing is associated with positive behaviors and may prove to be a useful weight-control tool.
Kerri N. Bo...More...
5/7/2009
New Technique May Help Detect Potential Breast Cancer Spread
A new phase III clinical trial of early stage breast cancer patients has shown that a molecule designed to home in on nearby lymph nodes is just as accurate as current techniques, but faster, more specific and easier to use.
“These results wil...More...
5/7/2009
Expression of Infrared Fluorescence Engineered in Mammals
Research led by Nobel Prize winner Roger Tsien may provide prototype for future studies in animal models
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego – led by 2008 Nobel-Prize winner Roger Tsien, PhD – have shown that bacterial...More...
5/6/2009
Open Wide: New Incision-Free Procedure Helps Patients Achieve Weight Loss
“When you’re overweight people stare at you. They make fun of you. You can see the negative reaction in their face,” said Maria Rusak, 53, resident of San Diego. “In a world where everyone is trying to be a skinny minnie, who ...More...
5/5/2009
New Target Identified for Potential Treatment of Retinopathy in Premature Babies
Results of a study in mice by researchers at the University of California, San Diego strongly suggest that the protein kinase JNK1 plays a key role in the development of retinopathy in premature infants. Their findings, reported online the week of M...More...
5/1/2009
May 3rd Triathlon to Benefit Cancer Research at Moores UCSD Cancer Center
A triathlon aimed at raising money for cancer research at the Moores UCSD Cancer Center will be held Sunday, May 3 at South Shores Park on Mission Bay, beginning at 7 a.m. Now in its second year, the Spring Sprint Triathlon and Duathlon, the first mu...More...
5/1/2009
Non-Alcoholic Fatty Liver Disease Shown to Run in Families
UC San Diego study says relatives of children with NAFLD considered ‘high risk’
Family members of children diagnosed with non-alcoholic fatty liver disease (NAFLD) should be considered at high risk for the disease and tested for it as pa...More...
4/30/2009
CIRM Awards $5 Million Early Translational Grant to UC San Diego Researcher
A stem cell researcher from the University of California, San Diego, Yang Xu, professor of biology, has been awarded a $5.16 million grant from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM). Fifteen Early Translational grants, totaling $...More...
4/27/2009
Novel Role of Protein in Generating Amyloid β Peptide
A defining hallmark of Alzheimer’s disease is the accumulation of the amyloid β protein (Aβ), otherwise known as “senile plaques,” in the brain’s cortex and hippocampus, where memory consolidation occurs. Researchers...More...
4/23/2009
Radiation Device in the Breast Reduces Complications for Early-Stage Breast Cancer Patients
A new study shows that the SAVI™ applicator, a small, expandable device inserted inside the breast to deliver partial breast irradiation, carries a low infection risk, a potential complication of such devices. The research, led by radiation oncologis...More...
4/22/2009
Binge Drinking May Hamper Information Relay System in Teen Brain
A study of adolescent binge drinkers has found that even relatively infrequent exposure to large amounts of alcohol during the teen years may compromise the integrity of the brain’s white matter, which is critical for the efficient relay of inf...More...
4/22/2009
Instead of Fighting Breast Cancer, Immune Cell Promotes Its Spread
Researchers at the UC San Diego School of Medicine and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have new evidence that a type of immune system cell thought to be part of the first line of defense against breast cancer may also help promote its spread. They have...More...
4/20/2009
Phone Calls, Cabbage, and Kale Evaluated in Bladder Cancer Study
Could phone conversation be a new line of defense against cancer? A new clinical trial study at UC San Diego Medical Center is evaluating whether or not diet intervention, prompted by phone calls, may be an effective way of treating bladder cancer.
...More...
4/20/2009
New Biomarker May Predict Leukemia Aggressiveness
Scientists at the University of California, San Diego and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have evidence of a potential new biomarker to predict the aggressiveness of an often difficult-to-treat form of leukemia. They found that high levels of a particu...More...
4/15/2009
Tijuana Injection Drug Users on Collision Course for HIV and TB
A study by researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine, in collaboration with Mexican researchers and health officials, shows that as many as 67 percent of injection drug users in Tijuana test positive for tuberculosis...More...
4/13/2009
Reversing Effects of Altered Enzyme May Fight Brain Tumor Growth
An international team of scientists from the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, the University of North Carolina and several institutions in China have explained how a gene alteration can lead to the development of a typ...More...
4/9/2009
Trial Shows Prescription Heartburn Medication Fails to Control Asthma Symptoms
A study published April 8, 2009 in the New England Journal of Medicine contradicts a long-held belief that severe asthma symptoms such as coughing, wheezing and breathlessness are triggered in part by acid reflux. Experts believe that the longstandi...More...
4/8/2009
Device Protects Transplanted Pancreatic Cells from the Immune System
Immunoprotection is Important Step towards Treating Type 1 Diabetes
Scientists at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) School of Medicine and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have demonstrated in mice that transp...More...
4/8/2009
Complex Tumor Removal and Kidney Reconstruction Performed with One Incision—California First
With a single incision hidden in the navel, surgeons at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center have successfully removed a cancerous kidney tumor while saving the patient’s kidney. The surgical team extracted the tumor through t...More...
4/7/2009
Two Major Obesity Trials Aimed at Helping Children and Teens
UC San Diego Researchers Recruiting Participants
Obesity has become the most common chronic health condition of childhood. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, nearly 1 out of 3 children in the United States, ages 2 to 19, i...More...
4/6/2009
Researchers Regenerate Axons Necessary for Voluntary Movement
For the first time, researchers have clearly shown regeneration of a critical type of nerve fiber that travels between the brain and the spinal cord and which is required for voluntary movement. The regeneration was accomplished in a brain injury sit...More...
4/6/2009
Is There a Seat of Wisdom in the Brain?
UC San Diego researchers first to study the neurobiology of wisdom
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have compiled the first-ever review of the neurobiology of wisdom – once the sole province of religion...More...
4/2/2009
Protein Protects Neurons in Brain from Damage due to Inflammation
Could provide target for therapy to treat Parkinson’s disease; other neuro-degenerative diseases
A research team from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and the Salk Institute for Biological Studies in La Jolla has iden...More...
3/26/2009
Georgia Robins Sadler, PhD, MBA Receives Cancer Education Award
Pioneering cancer public health and community advocate Georgia Robins Sadler, PhD, MBA, was recently awarded the Margaret Hay Edwards Achievement Medal from the American Association for Cancer Education (AACE) for her outstanding contributions to can...More...
3/26/2009
UC San Diego Medical Center Honors Cancer Expert as Physician of the Year
Each year UC San Diego honors outstanding physicians for their commitment to health care and serving the community. This year UC San Diego Medical Center selected Barbara Parker, MD, medical director of oncology services at the Moores UCSD Cancer Cen...More...
3/20/2009
From White Coats to White Envelopes
The Future is Revealed for UC San Diego Medical Students
Beaming from ear to ear with a smile that arrives only after hard-earned accomplishment, Chris Moriates admitted he was nervous. “It was hard for me to open the envelope but amazing to f...More...
3/18/2009
What's Driving Specific Patterns of Gene Expression Among Cell Types?
New map of 55,000 gene enhancers broadens scientific understanding of the human genome and what makes it work
Providing another tool to help to understand gene regulation on a global scale, a nationwide research team has identified and mapped 55,000 enhancers, short regions of DNA that act to enhance or boost the expression of genes. The map, which will be p...More...
3/17/2009
Seven UC San Diego Alzheimer’s Researchers Among World’s Top 100
UC San Diego School of Medicine boasts more “Top 100 AD Investigators” than any other institution in the world
Seven researchers from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine are listed among the top 100 Alzheimer’...More...
3/16/2009
Researchers Identify Cause for Severe Pediatric Epilepsy Disorder
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have discovered that convulsive seizures in a form of severe epilepsy are generated, not on the brain’s surface as expected, but from within the memory-forming hippocampu...More...
3/10/2009
UC San Diego Announces Trauma Research and Prevention Program
Cal Firefighter and Marine Corps Flight Surgeon Share Patient Stories
XETV6 News: New Traumatic Injury Research Center
Spanish news coverage on KBNT
Six minutes from now, someone in the United States will die from trau...More...
3/9/2009
Protein Helps Immune Cells to Divide and Conquer
Researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine have identified a key protein that is required for immune cells called B lymphocytes to divide and replicate themselves. The rapid generation of large numbers of these immune ...More...
3/5/2009
Transparent Zebrafish a Must-See Model for Atherosclerosis
We usually think of fish as a “heart-healthy” food. Now fish are helping researchers better understand how heart disease develops in studies that could lead to new drugs to slow disease and prevent heart attacks.
Scientists at the Univ...More...
3/5/2009
Researchers’ New Goal: Drug-Free Remission for HIV Infection
A group including leading academic and industry scientists has issued a challenge to researchers in the field of HIV/AIDS: find a way to effectively purge latent HIV infection and eliminate the need for chronic, suppressive therapy to control this di...More...
2/26/2009
UC San Diego Names William Mobley Chair of Neurosciences
William C. Mobley, MD, PhD – a clinician and researcher who is internationally known for his work on degenerative diseases of the central nervous system and the neurobiology of Down syndrome – has been selected the new chair of the depart...More...
2/23/2009
Magnetic Device Studied as Treatment for Heartburn and Acid Reflux
More than 20 million Americans suffer from gastroesophageal reflux disease (GERD), experienced by many as chronic heartburn. Medication offers short-term relief for some sufferers of this disease. For those seeking a non-prescription alternative, a m...More...
2/17/2009
Scientists Uncover Indicator that Warns Leukemia is Progressing to More Dangerous Form
Scientists at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego, Stanford University School of Medicine and other centers have identified a mechanism by which a chronic form of leukemia can progress into a deadlier stage of the dise...More...
2/13/2009
Stem Cell Research Uncovers Mechanism for Type 2 Diabetes
Taking clues from their stem cell research, investigators at the University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) and the Burnham Institute for Medical Research (Burnham) have discovered that a signaling pathway involved in normal pancreatic develop...More...
2/11/2009
New Imaging Center to Help Make Better Diagnoses, Evaluate Drug Effectiveness
Researchers at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego are taking advantage of a five-year, $7.5 million grant from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and sophisticated imaging technologies at the newly established In...More...
2/10/2009
Cervix Moves Significantly More Than Previously Thought During Radiation for Cancer
Radiation and gynecologic oncologists at the Moores Cancer Center at the University of California, San Diego are concerned that many women with cervical cancer may not be receiving the optimal dose of radiation during treatments specific for the shap...More...
2/9/2009
Surgeons Remove Cancerous Kidney with Single Incision, California First
On Thursday, February 5, 2009, surgeons at the University of California, San Diego Medical Center removed a patient’s diseased kidney through one incision hidden in the belly button. No other incisions were used. This groundbreaking procedure i...More...
2/9/2009
Growth Factor Protects Key Brain Cells in Alzheimer’s Models
UC San Diego study in animals may pave way for novel approach to treating Alzheimer’s disease
Memory loss, cognitive impairment, brain cell degeneration and cell death were prevented or reversed in several animal models after treatment with a...More...
2/3/2009
UC San Diego Medical Center First Hospital in Region to Offer Microwave Technology to Destroy Liver Tumors
A new minimally-invasive option for treating liver tumors, called microwave ablation, is now available at UC San Diego Medical Center and Moores UCSD Cancer Center, the only hospitals in the region to offer this technology to patients.
“A live...More...
2/2/2009
Two Immune-System Proteins Linked to Colitis-Associated Cancer
Recent research from the laboratory of Michael Karin, PhD, at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine – the first researcher to demonstrate a molecular link between inflammation and cancer – has identified two potential...More...
1/30/2009
CIRM Gives Tentative Approval of Renewal Grant for UC San Diego Stem Cell Training Program
The stem cell research training program at the University of California, San Diego has been awarded conditional funding of $3.89 million from the California Institute for Regenerative Medicine (CIRM) to continue its training of graduate students, pos...More...
1/30/2009
Automated Screening Process May Eventually Reduce Additional Breast Cancer Surgeries
A team of researchers at the University of California, San Diego (UCSD) and the Moores UCSD Cancer Center have developed a rapid, automated image screening process to distinguish breast cancer cells from normal cells. The technique, which is based on...More...
1/29/2009
First Comprehensive Paper on Statins’ Adverse Effects Released
A paper co-authored by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and director of UC San Diego’s Statin Study group cites nearly 900 studies on the adverse effects of ...More...
1/29/2009
UC San Diego GI/Endoscopy Unit Ranked Among Best in Nation
Recognized for Quality and Safety in First-Ever Award Series
Safety. Quality. High standards. Those are words most patients would welcome when describing a healthcare service. UC San Diego’s Gastrointestinal Endoscopy program was recently...More...
1/27/2009
Nursing Organization Rates UC San Diego Medical Center in Top 100
UC San Diego Medical Center was one of only ten hospitals in the entire state of California to be listed in the 2009 “Top 100 Hospitals to Work For” created by Nursing Professionals magazine. The magazine surveyed nurses to measure job s...More...
1/26/2009
Dr. Stuart Jamieson Named to Endowed Chair of Cardiothoracic Surgery at UC San Diego Medical Center
World-renowned cardiothoracic surgeon Stuart Jamieson, MB, FRCS, Distinguished Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery at the University of California, San Diego, has been named first to hold the endowed Chair of Cardiothor...More...
1/26/2009
Does Smokeless Tobacco Help Smokers Quit Cigarettes?
UC San Diego Researchers Find No Such Association in the U.S.
Some smokers say they just can’t quit cigarettes. But previous studies of smokers in Sweden have suggested that many have done just that, by switching to smokeless tobacco. While no...More...
1/15/2009
New Nanoparticle to Help Researchers Study Angiogenesis
Adah Almutairi, Ph.D., assistant professor in the Skaggs School of Pharmacy and Pharmaceutical Sciences at the University of California, San Diego, is first author of a paper recently published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (...More...
1/13/2009
NIH Awards $16.6 Million to UC San Diego Researcher for New Epigenome Center
Bing Ren, Ph.D., associate professor of Cellular and Molecular Medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine and head of the Laboratory of Gene Regulation at the Ludwig Institute for Cancer Research, was recently selected as ...More...
1/9/2009
Genome Study Reveals New Clues Regarding Mystery Childhood Illness
Physician-Researchers from UC San Diego Medical Center and Rady Children’s Hospital Participate in International Kawasaki Disease StudyA study looking at the entire human genome has identified new genes that appear to be involved in making some child...More...
1/8/2009
Novel Prostate Cancer Vaccine Taking Aim at Cancer Cell “Sweet Spot”
Molecules of sugar sitting on the surface of cancer cells are keys to the development of a new vaccine aimed at both treating and stopping the spread of certain types of cancers called carcinomas, which include prostate, breast, ovarian and lung, amo...More...
1/8/2009
UC San Diego Names First Associate Dean for Global Health Sciences
In a world with constantly shrinking borders, global health is a growing concern. The University of California, San Diego is making an international impact with research and health care programs around the globe that fight diseases such as HIV/AIDS,...More...
1/8/2009
Metabolic Syndrome a Risk for Veterans with PTSD
Veterans with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) are more likely to have metabolic syndrome than veterans without PTSD, according to a study led by Pia Heppner, Ph.D., psychologist with the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine an...More...
1/7/2009
Unique Skeletal Muscle Design Contributes to Spine Stability
The novel design of a deep muscle along the spinal column called the multifidus muscle may in fact be key to spinal support and a healthy back, according to researchers at the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine. Their findings ab...More...
1/6/2009
Lung Cancer Cells Activate Inflammation to Induce Metastasis
A research team from the University of California, San Diego School of Medicine has identified a protein produced by cancerous lung epithelial cells that enhances metastasis by stimulating the activity of inflammatory cells. Their findings, to be pub...More...TO READ NEWS RELEASES FROM YEARS PRIOR TO 2009, PLEASE FOLLOW THESE LINKS:
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