Melanoma cells rewire to resist drug treatment, Penn-Wistar team finds
Credit: Yueyao Zhu and Wei Guo In 2014, new combination therapies to treat patients with metastatic melanoma hit the market,...
Study examines characteristics of mobile mammography patients
Leesburg, VA, September 25, 2017 - Significant differences were found among women receiving mammography at a cancer center versus those...
Ancient ink for cancer treatment
For hundreds of years, Chinese calligraphers have used a plant-based ink to create beautiful messages and art. Now, one group...
Scientists discover rogue messengers that hinder body’s immune response to cancer
Researchers from Trinity College Dublin have made a discovery around treatment-resistant breast cancer that may turn the phrase, 'don't shoot...
Editing genes one by one throughout colorectal cancer cell genome uncovers new drug target
Credit: UC San Diego Health Cancers driven by mutations in the KRAS gene are among the most deadly. For decades,...
Penn Medicine develops model to predict ER visits in lung cancer patients
Credit: Penn Medicine PHILADELPHIA - A pilot program that uses big data to predict which lung cancer patients will require...
Plant substance inhibits cancer stem cells
The plant Ambrosia arborescens grows at a high elevation in large parts of South America, and is traditionally used as...
Reducing disparities in cancer precision medicine
New Orleans, LA - The National Cancer Institute has awarded LSU Health New Orleans and Moffitt Comprehensive Cancer Center in...
Cancer treatment: Bringing patients onboard
Montreal, September 27, 2017 - Mado Desforges is a breast-cancer survivor who specializes in adult education, and lately she's added...
Tree-dwelling, coconut-cracking giant rat discovered in Solomon Islands
Credit: Velizar Simeonovski, The Field Museum Remember the movie The Princess Bride, when the characters debate the existence of R.O.U.S.es...
Songbird populations may indicate trouble in northwestern forests
Credit: J. Livaudais Populations of many North American songbirds are declining, and in many cases we don't understand why--for example,...
A first look at geographic variation in Gentoo penguin calls
Credit: M. Lynch Vocal communication is central to the lives of many birds, which use sound to attract mates and...
Cellular ‘message in a bottle’ may provide path to new way of treating disease
Key takeaways: Extracellular vesicle ARMMs carry receptors that allow signaling without direct contact between cells. Researchers hope to engineer ARMMs...
Anxious moms may give clues about how anxiety develops
Moms may be notorious worriers, but babies of anxious mothers may also spend more time focusing on threats in their...
The benefits & dangers when genetic testing companies partner with orphan drug developers
Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, September 27, 2017-Pharmaceutical companies developing Orphan Drugs are increasingly partnering with...
Two new crustacean species discovered on Galician seabed
Credit: José Antonio Peñas (SINC) The fauna of deep seabed tends to be relatively unknown due to the difficulty of...
NIH awards $10.6 million research center grant to JAX for study of chronic fatigue
As part of a major, multi-institutional, multidisciplinary assault against myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS), a highly debilitating and poorly understood...
Modeling brain connections to understand Parkinson’s disease
Some 10 million people worldwide suffer from Parkinson's disease -- a debilitating condition that causes degeneration of brain nerve cells...
Preservation of floodplains is flood protection
Credit: (Photo: TUM/J. Geist) The silting of rivers and streams leads to problems for fish, mussels, and other aquatic organisms...
Brain cells that control appetite identified for first time
Credit: Professor Nicholas Dale/Ms. Greta Lazutkaite Key brain cells which control our appetite discovered by scientists at University of Warwick...
