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(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Maxine Dunitz Neurosurgical Institute who first isolated cancer stem cells in adult brain tumors in 2004 have now identified a molecular mechanism that is involved in the development of these cells from which malignant brain tumors may originate.

This could offer a target for scientists seeking treatments that would kill malignant brain tumors at their source and prevent them from recurring.

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(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) When virally infected cells in the brain called astrocytes come in contact with antiviral T cells of the immune system, they undergo a unique series of changes that dramatically reorganize their shape and function, according to researchers at the Board of Governors Gene Therapeutics Research Institute at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center.

Intriguingly, the new data indicate that astrocytes may defend themselves from attacking T cells by engulfing (gobbling up) the aggressors.

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) In a study using laboratory animals, researchers found that medications commonly prescribed for erectile dysfunction opened a mechanism called the blood-brain tumor barrier and increased delivery of cancer-fighting drugs to malignant brain tumors.

July is Glaucoma Awareness Month. So to spotlight the illness, we "check up" with Dr. John Danias of the Mount Sinai Medical Center, who's been providing care to New York's own Gov.

Paterson since his angle closure attack in May.

With Father's Day on Sunday, make sure your special guy knows the warning signs of prostate cancer, the dangerous disease of the reproductive gland.

Dr. David B. Samadi of Mount Sinai Medical Center explains what to look for and what you can do.

(Cedars-Sinai Medical Center) Denzel Washington's hometown of Mount Vernon, NY, will host the 2008 awards ceremony for the Neuroscience Scholarships bearing the Washington family name.

This year's awards ceremony, which is by invitation only, will be Friday, May 2, at 10 a.m. at the Mount Vernon High School.

I've commented at "External oversight needed for hospital EMR implementation" and "Yet another clinical IT controversy: UC Davis" on the enormous amounts of money for EMR's being spent by HC organizations.

A new gene therapy approach that attracts and "trains" immune system cells to destroy deadly brain cancer cells also provides long-term immunity, produces no significant adverse effects and -- in the process of destroying the tumor -- promotes the return of normal brain function and behavioral skills, according to a study conducted by researchers at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center's Board of Governors Gene Therapeutics Research Institute.