Cancer

A team of researchers led by Duke Cancer Institute has identified key events that prompt certain cancer cells to develop...

Prostate cancer affects more than 23,000 men this year in the USA however the individual genes that initiate prostate cancer...

Programmed cell death is a mechanism that causes defective and potentially harmful cells to destroy themselves. It serves a number...

When RNA-binding proteins are turned on, cancer cells get locked in a proliferative state. Musashi proteins, stained red, appear in...

Cancer Research UK scientists have discovered a new line of defence used by cancer cells to evade cell death, according...

Although prostate cancer can be successfully treated in many men, when the disease metastasizes to the bone, it is eventually...

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London have made a breakthrough in developing a new therapy for advanced bladder cancer...

Researchers have developed a potential new weapon in the fight against cancer: a daisy-shaped drug carrier that’s many thousands of...

About 50 years ago, electron microscopy revealed the presence of tiny blob-like structures that form inside cells, move around and...

Scientists from Queen Mary University of London (QMUL) have discovered mutations in genes that lead to childhood leukaemia of the...

Scientists at A*STAR’s Institute of Medical Biology (IMB) and the Bioinformatics Institute (BII) have found new clues to early detection...

Researchers from the University of Bradford have devised a simple blood test that can be used to diagnose whether people...

Cancer is a disease of the genome resulting from a combination of genetic modifications (or mutations). We inherit from our...

A new understanding of the mechanism that makes neuro cells turn cancerous brings us nearer to a treatment for brain/neuro...

This is the story of two perfectly harmless genes. By themselves, PAX3 and MAML3 don’t cause any problems. However, when...

Twelve years ago, UNC School of Medicine researcher Brian Strahl, PhD, found that a protein called Set2 plays a role...

Scientists at UC Santa Barbara have designed a nanoparticle that has a couple of unique — and important — properties....

Improved diagnosis and management of one of the most common cancers in men – prostate cancer – could result from...

Tweaking a protein expressed by most liver cancer cells has enabled scientists to make a vaccine that is exceedingly effective...

A test of organic compounds in exhaled breath can not only distinguish patients with lung cancer from patients with chronic...