Errors made by ‘DNA spellchecker’ revealed as important cause of cancer
Cancer is mostly caused by changes in the DNA of our cells that occur during our lifetime rather than those ...
Long-sought mechanism of metastasis is discovered in pancreatic cancer
Credit: Vakoc Lab, CSHL Cold Spring Harbor, NY - Cells, just like people, have memories. They retain molecular markers that ...
Cancer-death button gets jammed by gut bacterium
ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- Researchers at Michigan Medicine and in China showed that a type of bacterium is associated with ...
Researchers release first draft of a genome-wide cancer ‘dependency map’
Credit: Tom Ulrich In one of the largest efforts to build a comprehensive catalog of genetic vulnerabilities in cancer, researchers ...
Glowing tumor technology helps surgeons remove hidden cancer cells
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - Surgeons were able to identify and remove a greater number of cancerous nodules from lung ...
New SU2C-Lustgarten Foundation team aims to apply CAR T-cell therapy to pancreatic cancer
PHILADELPHIA - July 27, 2017 - Stand Up To Cancer is supporting a new translational research team to explore how ...
Blocking the back-door that cancer cells use to escape death by radiotherapy
Credit: Melissa Fabrizio (Edmonton) A natural healing mechanism of the body may be reducing the efficiency of radiotherapy in breast ...
Study finds breast cancer driver, HER2, in 3 percent of lung cancers
Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center The Lung Cancer Mutation Consortium at the University of Colorado Cancer Center reports this ...
Large gaps remain in colorectal cancer screening rates, study finds
Credit: Courtesy of St. Michael's Hospital TORONTO, July 27, 2017-- Large gaps remain in colorectal cancer screening rates between poorer ...
Manmade peptides reduce breast cancer’s spread
Credit: Phil Jones AUGUSTA, Ga. (July 27, 2017) - Manmade peptides that directly disrupt the inner workings of a gene ...
In assessing risk of hormone therapy for menopause, dose — not form — matters
Credit: UCLA Health FINDINGS When it comes to assessing the risk of estrogen therapy for menopause, how the therapy is ...
Seattle Children’s opens CD22 CAR T-cell immunotherapy trial for children and young adults
SEATTLE - July 27, 2017 - After seeing promising results in phase 1 of the Pediatric Leukemia Adoptive Therapy (PLAT-02) ...
E-cigarette use may encourage experimentation with tobacco, study finds
Credit: University of Stirling Young people who have tried an e-cigarette may be more likely to go on to smoke ...
Seeing more with PET scans: New chemistry for medical imaging
Credit: Wikimedia Commons Researchers have found a surprisingly versatile workaround to create chemical compounds that could prove useful for medical ...
USDA invests $15.7 million for research to Iimprove livestock and aquaculture
WASHINGTON, D.C. July 27, 2017 - The U.S. Department of Agriculture's (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) today ...
Drug improves brain performance in Rett syndrome mice
Credit: UAB After learning that a small-molecule drug improves breathing in a mouse model of the neurodevelopmental disorder Rett syndrome, ...
Interactive protein posttranslational modifications regulate stress responses
Credit: IGDB Methylation and nitric oxide (NO)-based S-nitrosylation are highly conserved protein posttranslational modifications that regulate diverse biological processes, including ...
New 3-D imaging reveals how human cell nucleus organizes DNA and chromatin of its genome
Credit: Horng D. Ou, Salk Institute. Sixty-four years ago, James Watson and Francis Crick described the now-iconic double helix structure ...
BTI receives DARPA ‘Insect Allies’ Award
Credit: Emilyn Matsumura Researchers at the Boyce Thompson Institute (BTI), the University of Minnesota, the University of California, Davis, and ...
DNA links male, female butterfly thought to be distinct species
Credit: Florida Museum of Natural History photo by Shinichi Nakahara GAINESVILLE, Fla. --- Researchers recently discovered what was thought to ...
