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If you or someone you know has gone through chemotherapy, you might be familiar with the side effect commonly called 'chemo brain.' Scientists have now demonstrated a simple way to protect brain cells from damage using flashing lights and sounds at a certain frequency.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Cancer, Chemotherapy, Neuroscience, Neurological, Alzheimer's Disease, Brain,
Scientists have discovered that a common natural sugar could play a role in boosting cancer treatments like chemotherapy. Mannose was found to be able to invoke “honeybee syndrome” in cancer cells to slow their growth and make them more vulnerable to attack.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Cancer, Sugar, metabolism, Bees, Sanford-Burnham Medical Research Institute
Belgian scientists have shed light on the reason why particular types of cancers develop resistance to chemotherapy. By switching off the gene that produces a protein involved in chemotherapy resistance, they were able to make resistant cancer cells more sensitive to treatment.Continue ReadingCategory: Medical, ScienceTags: Genetics, Genetic engineering, Chemotherapy, Cancer, Protein


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