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• New prostate cancer screening guidelines face a tough sell, study suggests
• Tongue analysis software uses ancient Chinese medicine to warn of disease
• Skp2 activates cancer-promoting, glucose-processing Akt
• It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower
• Drug destroys human cancer stem cells but not healthy ones

New prostate cancer screening guidelines face a tough sell, study suggests Posted: 26 May 2012 04:13 PM PDT Recent recommendations from the US Preventive Services Task Force advising elimination of routine prostate-specific antigen screening for prostate cancer in healthy men are likely to encounter serious pushback from primary care physicians, according to results of a new survey.

Tongue analysis software uses ancient Chinese medicine to warn of disease Posted: 26 May 2012 04:13 PM PDT Researchers have developed computer software that automatically analyzes images of the tongue, one of the measures used to classify the overall physical status of the body, or zheng, in Chinese traditional medicine.

Skp2 activates cancer-promoting, glucose-processing Akt Posted: 26 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT E3 ligase's role makes it target for defeating Herceptin resistance, stifling cancer's preferred diet.

It's in the genes: Research pinpoints how plants know when to flower Posted: 26 May 2012 04:12 PM PDT Scientists believe they've pinpointed the last crucial piece of the 80-year-old puzzle of how plants "know" when to flower.

Drug destroys human cancer stem cells but not healthy ones Posted: 24 May 2012 09:28 AM PDT Scientists have discovered that a drug, thioridazine, successfully kills cancer stem cells in the human while avoiding the toxic side-effects of conventional cancer treatments. To test more than a dozen different compounds, researchers pioneered a fully automated robotic system to identify several drugs, including thioridazine.

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