by Garth Sundem | Jan 8, 2020 | Featured, Research
Tin Tin Su, PhD. (photo: Paul Muhlrad) The red, tube-shaped flowers of the firecracker bush (Bouvardia ternifolia), native to Mexico and the American Southwest, attract hummingbirds. The bush also provides the chemical bouvardin, which the lab of University of...
by Garth Sundem | Apr 1, 2019 | Latest News, Research
Tobacco use causes a field of precancerous cells, increasing the risk of developing head & neck cancer. But exactly how this precancerous field influences cancer has been often overlooked. Now a University of Colorado Cancer Center study presented at the American...
by Garth Sundem | Dec 6, 2018 | Latest News, Research
Five years after diagnosis, only 40 percent of patients with locally-advanced oral cavity cancer will still be alive. The question is who is likely to live and who is likely to die? The answer to this question could not only help patients better predict the course of...
by Garth Sundem | Sep 18, 2018 | Featured, Latest News, Research
A little p63 goes a long way in embryonic development – and flaws in p63 can result in birth defects like cleft palette, fused fingers or even missing limbs. But once this early work is done, p63 goes silent, sitting quietly in the genome from that point forward....
by Garth Sundem | Aug 23, 2018 | Latest News, Research
If a new anti-cancer drug shows promise in a Petri dish, often the next step is to test the drug’s effect in mice. This system tends to work well with drugs that directly target cancer, but breaks down with immunotherapies. That’s because tumors from human cancer...
