ISEEC 2017: International Society For Evolution, Ecology and Cancer Conference
Can we target cancer's evolutionary and ecological nature? Many biological systems are resilient to shocks, having the ability to return...
From bed to bench and back to bed: Mimicking how HPV-positive cancer responds to treatment
Credit: Medical University of South Carolina, courtesy of Dr. Besim Ogretmen Patients with head and neck squamous cell carcinoma who...
Human papillomavirus 16 infections may pose variable cancer risk
Human papillomavirus 16 accounts for about half of all cervical cancers, but researchers reporting September 7 in the journal Cell...
Immunotherapy combination safe and 62 percent effective in metastatic melanoma patients
Immunotherapy is a promising approach in the treatment of metastatic melanoma, an aggressive and deadly form of skin cancer; but...
Cancer immunotherapy may get a boost by disabling specific T cells
New York, NY (September 7, 2017)--Cancer immunotherapy drugs only work for a minority of patients, but a generic drug now...
UTA researchers discover connection between low oxygen levels and a human gene
University of Texas at Arlington researchers have established a link between hypoxia, a condition that reduces the flow of oxygen...
Trigger for fatty liver in obesity
Credit: UZH In Switzerland, about every tenth adult suffers from morbid obesity. Such corpulence can not only lead to diabetes...
Double targeting ligands to identify and treat prostate cancer
Credit: JM Kelly et al., Department of Radiology, Weill Cornell Medicine, New York, NY RESTON, Va. - Researchers have demonstrated...
Researchers point way to improved stem cell transplantation therapies
Credit: Kollek et al., 2017 Researchers in Germany have demonstrated that hematopoietic stem cell (HSC) transplants can be improved by...
A tiny device offers insights to how cancer spreads
Credit: Michigan Medicine ANN ARBOR, Michigan -- As cancer grows, it evolves. Individual cells become more aggressive and break away...
Report: Whole grains decrease colorectal cancer risk, processed meats increase the risk
WASHINGTON, DC -- Eating whole grains daily, such as brown rice or whole-wheat bread, reduces colorectal cancer risk, with the...
Helping cancer survivors return to work
A new Psycho-Oncology analysis of published studies indicates that there are various employer-related factors that can help or hinder cancer...
Link established between a molecular driver of melanoma & novel therapeutic agent
PHILADELPHIA -- (Sept. 7, 2017) -- Results of a study by The Wistar Institute have described a correlation between a...
Researchers develop cheaper, faster test for E. coli in drinking water
Researchers at the University of Waterloo have invented a fast, affordable way for developing communities to test their drinking water...
Children exposed to chemicals in 9/11 ‘dust’ show early signs of risk of heart disease
Sixteen years after the collapse of the World Trade Center towers sent a "cloud" of toxic debris across Lower Manhattan,...
Birds are on the move in the face of climate change
Research on birds in northern Europe reveals that there is an ongoing considerable species turnover due to climate change and...
What role do genome variations play in tuberculosis?
Tuberculosis is caused by Mycobacterium tuberculosis. In 2016, this was the most common causative pathogen for death by infectious diseases....
Researchers break through the wall in bacterial membrane vesicle research
Credit: University of Tsukuba Tsukuba, Japan--Many bacteria release membrane vesicles, which are nanoscale spheres consisting of a cellular membrane containing...
Australian Magpie ‘dunks’ its food before eating, researchers find
Scientists at the University of York, in collaboration with researchers at Western Sydney University, have shown that the Australian Magpie...
New research disputes claims that climate change helped spark the Syrian civil war
A new study, published today in the journal Political Geography, shows that there is no sound evidence that global climate...
