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Credit: University of Colorado Cancer Center Estrogen-positive breast cancers are often treated with anti-estrogen therapies. But about half of these...

WINSTON-SALEM, N.C. - July 25, 2017 - African-Americans typically have worse outcomes from smoking-related cancers than Caucasians, but the reasons...

PHILADELPHIA, PA -- NRG-RTOG 0436 has determined that adding an epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) inhibitor to a chemo-radiation regimen...

In tumor immunotherapy, the body's own defense system is activated against the tumor cells. However, for the majority of patients,...

Arlington, Va. - July 25, 2017 - An overwhelming majority of Americans (86%) agree that health care professionals should discuss...

Credit: Photo by L. Brian Stauffer CHAMPAIGN, Ill. -- A new study indicates that cancer patients and survivors have a...

Attaching curcumin, a component of the common spice turmeric, to nanoparticles can be used to target and destroy treatment-resistant neuroblastoma...

A new discovery by University of Bristol scientists helps to explain how cells which surround blood vessels, called pericytes, stimulate...

"Our goal is to know more about what happens in cancer patients who develop rapid and severe weight loss," says...

Credit: Earlham Institute SPECTRE, a new open-source software package, simplifies the complex business of creating phylogenetic networks and trees. It...

Credit: Alexander von Humboldt Foundation Bacteria has a formidable enemy in Wonpil Im. As researchers race against bacteria's growing resistance...

Scientists from the Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center, US, have revealed a communication system between the knee joint and developing...

Credit: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc., publishers New Rochelle, NY, July 25, 2017--Soft-bodied robots offer the possibility for social engagement, and...

St. Paul, Minn. (July 2017)--While beneficial microbes are becoming a more common tool in agriculture, their effectiveness in the field...

Textbooks tell us that, in arbuscular mycorrhizal symbioses, the host plant supplies its fungal symbionts solely with sugars, in return...

Credit: Bryan Williams, University of Liverpool WASHINGTON -- Many of today's cars are coated with paint that exhibits a metallic...

Credit: Magdalena Steinrück Genes do not exist in isolation. Like beads on a string, they sit next to each other...

Credit: Jingxiong Zhang, Chinese Academy of Sciences Plants of the genus Cuscuta have colorful folk names, such as wizard's net,...

Moscow, Russia, July 25, 2017 - InSysBio LLC , one of the pioneers in Quantitative Systems Pharmacology (QSP) modeling and...

Credit: Mission X: Train Like an Astronaut Mission X: Train like an Astronaut, since its inception in 2011, has morphed...