A restricted-calorie diet inhibited the development of precancerous growths in a two-step model of skin cancer, reducing the activation of two signaling pathways known to contribute to cancer growth and development, researchers at The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported at the American Association for Cancer Research annual meeting.An obesity-inducing diet, by contrast, activated those pathways, said first author Tricia Moore, a graduate student in M. D.

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Micromet, Inc. (Nasdaq: MITI), a biopharmaceutical company developing novel antibodies for the treatment of cancer, inflammation and autoimmune diseases, presented at the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) in San Diego, CA, preclinical data of two new human BiTE(R) antibodies targeting CD33 and MCSP, for the treatment of acute myelogenous leukaemia (AML) and melanoma (1).

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