Creative Biomart Blog

Thu, 2015/10/08

There exists, in some cancers, some abnormal cells similar to stem cells. These cells are as factories that are working overtime. They quickly produce a copy of their own and from time to time generate some variations. What’s worse, those cells can spread to other tissues of the body, and eventually leading to cancer metastasis. Researchers in Salk institution found that, Sox10 can determine whether cells will transform into this horrible factory. The new understanding of Sox10 will help people develop more effective cancer treatments and overcome the resistance of cancer cells. “Cancer is

Wed, 2015/10/07

Pesticides Linked to Increased Diabetes Risk

Previously, it has been revealed that the use of certain pesticides at home might increase the risk of childhood cancer. However, a recent study claimed that pesticides are also linked to increased risk of diabetes. The report said that long-term exposure to pesticides can significantly increase the risk of type 2 diabetes (60 percent). “Our study suggests that pesticides can significantly increase the risk of developing type 2 diabetes, even though at present we can not determine whether there is a causal relationship.” said Dr. Kavvoura, “ However, we found that exposure to any pesticide w

Tue, 2015/09/29

Month-end Check: Biotech study topics in Nature-September

Giant study poses DNA data-sharing dilemma A commonly discussed issue: should the information about disease risk, especially genetic data be shared with participants. Some say participants should at least have the right to know their personal data to investigate their own health, but some specialists say showing participants their data is irresponsible for the information can’t be interpreted by every person. The significance is always uncertain. People who get know of their health data might worry excessively or seek unnecessary medical tests. “Unless you give people the tools and the skills

Thu, 2015/09/24

Cytokine and Receptor Analysis in Creative BioMart

Cytokine receptors are receptors that bind cytokines. In recent years, cytokine receptors have caught much more attentions than cytokines themselves. Maybe this is because of their remarkable characteristics or because a deficiency of cytokine receptors has now been directly linked to certain debilitating immunodeficiency states. Creative BioMart, a world leading biotech company dedicated to providing quality custom analytical and translational services, has a revolutionary new platform designed for enrichment and highly detection of cytokine secreting cells. The company offers a wide range o

Tue, 2015/09/22

On the Three Revolutions of Cancer Research

So far, cancer drug development has gone through three huge revolutions; they are: cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs, “targeted therapy” and immunotherapy. Immunotherapy has not only revolutionized the effectiveness of cancer treatment and will revolutionize the concept of cancer treating. Relatively speaking, immunotherapy is the real anti-cancer revolution and the most reasonable means to solve cancer. Chemotherapy- the first revolution of anti-cancer drugs Starting from 1940, the most used anti-cancer chemotherapy drugs are basically belong to cytotoxic chemotherapy drugs currently in clinical

Mon, 2015/09/21

Pesticides May Increase Children’s Cancer Risk

According to a recent study published in Pediatrics, the use of certain pesticides at home might increase the risk of childhood cancer. In this analysis, scientists studied the potential links between the exposure to household pesticides and . To their surprise, they found that children exposed to indoor pesticides has 47 larger percentage of suffering from leukemia in the juvenile than those who never touched pesticides. And the risk of getting lymphoma is 43% more. Chen Shenglu, author of this study, said “remember the design and manufacture of pesticides is to kill pests.” Parents should

Fri, 2015/09/18

Human & Chimp

The appearance of Chimp is significantly different from humans, although the creature is close relative of our human beings. Recently, a paper published in Cell has revealed the molecular mechanisms that causes face structural differences between two species that have the same genetic background. The researchers pointed out that the key point lies in how the gene involved in the genetic diversity is regulated, the level of the regulation and the time and location of it. In particular, the researchers found that human and chimp can express different level of proteins that have controls over f

Thu, 2015/09/17

Eight Applications of Liquid Biopsy (Part Two)

The last post has given an introduction to liquid biopsy and its first four applications. This post is to analyze this rest four: Cancer Treatment Last year, some companies began to establish genetic map of cancer through mutated DNA fragments found in the blood. This “diagnosis and treatment” test can be used to determine which medication is suitable for the patients because cancer is caused by a specific mutation and they have a good response to certain drugs. Moreover, since the amount of tumor DNA in the blood is in proportion to the DNA size and stage, this detection can also be applie