Month: August 2017

Credit: Virginia Tech A well-intentioned government regulation designed to offer healthier options in school vending machines has failed to instill ...

Energy dense foods may increase cancer risk regardless of obesity status

Credit: C.A. Thomson Philadelphia, PA, August 17, 2017 - Diet is believed to play a role in cancer risk. Current ...

Deep-sea sponges — home to the next generation of antimicrobials?

Marine sponges and the deep-sea ecosystem are comparatively under-studied and under-exploited compared with life in shallower waters - but a ...

NASA Ppotects its super heroes from space weather

Credit: NASA/SOHO It's not a bird or a plane but it might be a solar storm. We like to think ...

New strategy to treat aggressive lung cancer

Dignity Health St. Joseph's Researchers Discover a Novel Therapeutic Strategy to Treat a Particularly Aggressive Subgroup of Lung Cancer PHOENIX ...

Impaired DNA replication can cause epigenetic changes inherited for several generations

Credit: Adam Klosin, CRG Cell division is key for renewing the cells in our tissues and organs. There are two ...

Noninvasive detection for early stage cancers from circulating DNA

A new DNA sequencing-based method could help noninvasively detect early stage cancers by analyzing fragments of genetic material circulating in ...

Scientists develop blood test that spots tumor-derived DNA in people with early-stage cancers

Credit: Reprinted with permission from Victor Velculescu et al., Science Translational Medicine 2017 In a bid to detect cancers early ...

Popular immunotherapy target turns out to have a surprising buddy

Credit: The Netherlands Cancer Institute The majority of current cancer immunotherapies focus on PD-L1. This well studied protein turns out ...

Toxic formaldehyde is produced inside our own cells, scientists discover

New research has revealed that some of the toxin formaldehyde in our bodies does not come from our environment - ...

Cell cycle-blocking drugs can shrink tumors by enlisting immune system in attack on cancer

BOSTON -- In the brief time that drugs known as CDK4/6 inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of metastatic ...

Specialists make breakthrough in the treatment of anal cancer

Specialists at The Christie and The University of Manchester have made a breakthrough which could potentially improve detection and treatment ...

Blood biopsy reveals unique, targetable genetic alterations in patients with rare cancer

Credit: UC San Diego Health Using fragments of circulating tumor DNA in blood, University of California San Diego School of ...

Insilico establishes collaboration with GSK to discover novel biological targets and molecules

Credit: Insilico Medicine,Inc. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, Baltimore, Md. - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company at the forefront of artificial ...

Researchers map brain tumor cells’ adaptation to oxygen deprivation

Credit: Louise Cornmark The most aggressive variant of brain tumour - glioblastoma - has an average survival rate of 15 ...

Researchers identify oestrogen receptor stem cells in the in the mammary gland

One of the key questions in stem cell and cancer biology is to understand the cellular hierarchy governing tissue development ...

For post-menopausal women, vaginal estrogens do not raise risk of cancer, other diseases

Credit: Women's Health Initiative FINDINGS Women who have gone through menopause and who have been using a vaginal form of ...

Whales turn tail at ocean mining noise

Credit: Photo credit - BRAHSS project (photo taken under permit as part of the Behavioural Response of Humpback Whales to ...

Subarachnoid hemorrhage and the need for expert treatment

PHOENIX, Ariz. Aug. 16, 2017 -- Research led by the head of the Barrow Neurological Institute and published in the ...

Fizzy soda water could be key to clean manufacture of flat wonder material: Graphene