Science News
Researchers predict risk for common deadly diseases from millions of genetic variants
Credit: Lauren Solomon A research team at the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Massachusetts General Hospital (MGH), and Harvard...
Researchers uncover a major new vulnerability of childhood leukemia
Credit: Kateřina Čermáková Childhood leukemia is a diagnosis that no family ever wants to endure. While the treatment of most...
MD Anderson and Accelerator Life Science Partners launch Magnolia Neurosciences
The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management...
Disrupted nitrogen metabolism might spell cancer
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Nitrogen is a basic building block of all the body's proteins, RNA and DNA, so...
Blood test could detect kidney cancer up to 5 years earlier
Scientists have discovered that a marker in the blood could help predict the risk that a person will develop kidney...
Duke team finds missing immune cells that could fight lethal brain tumors
Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Glioblastoma brain tumors can have an unusual effect on the body's...
Cellular escape artists help explain why some women present with advanced ovarian cancer
More than two-thirds of women with ovarian cancer have high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). Up to 90 percent of HGSCs are...
First study on physical properties of giant cancer cells may inform new treatments
Credit: Michelle Dawson / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Polyploidal cancer cells--cells that have more than two copies of each...
Researchers create specialized delivery methods to help treat cancer, other disorders
Credit: Erica Overfelt, Bond Life Sciences Center More than 100 years ago, German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich popularized the "magic...
Elephants resist cancer by waking a zombie gene
Elephants have evolved a way to make LIF6 (a non-functioning, or dead, gene in mammals) come back to life, and...
Zombie gene protects against cancer — in elephants
Credit: Eleanor Yarisse An estimated 17 percent of humans worldwide die from cancer, but less than five percent of captive...
Large collection of brain cancer data now easily, freely accessible to global researchers
WASHINGTON -- A valuable cache of brain cancer biomedical data has been made freely available to researchers worldwide, say researchers...
Researchers artificially generate immune cells integral to creating cancer vaccines
(New York, NY - August 14, 2018)-- For the first time, Mount Sinai researchers have identified a way to make...
Chemicals found in vegetables prevent colon cancer in mice
Credit: Chris Schiering, Francis Crick Institute Chemicals produced by vegetables such as kale, cabbage and broccoli could help to maintain...
Medically underserved women in the Southeast rarely receive BRCA tests
Medically underserved women in the Southeast diagnosed with breast cancer or ovarian cancer missed out on genetic testing that could...
Penetrating a cell’s nucleus for better, more accurate cancer screening
Credit: Lehigh University To test for malignancy or monitor the effectiveness of cancer treatment, a person's tissue must be extracted,...
Cetuximab+RT found to be inferior to standard treatment in HPV+ oropharyngeal cancer
Credit: National Cancer Institute An interim analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial of patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive...
Stress hormone is key factor in failure of immune system to prevent leukemia
The human stress hormone cortisol has been identified by scientists at the University of Kent as a key factor when...
Effectively expressing empathy to improve ICU care
Credit: Children's National Health System In nearly every intensive care unit (ICU) at every pediatric hospital across the country, physicians...
Research identifies potential guidance for gastric cancer treatment
ROCKVILLE, MD - Researchers from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center and Tianjin Medical University Cancer Institute and Hospital (TMUCIH) have...
