‘Smart’ immune cells: Emerging cancer therapy research boosted with NIH award
Credit: Collins lab, UC Davis Assistant Professor Sean Collins, Department of Microbiology and Molecular Genetics in the UC Davis College ...
Global burden of disease study focuses on liver cancer
A new article published by JAMA Oncology reports the results of the Global Burden of Disease 2015 study on primary ...
Why can’t mTOR inhibitors kill cancer? Study explains
Credit: McGill University and Masahiro Morita, Ph.D. Anti-cancer drugs called mTOR inhibitors slow the growth of cancer cells but show ...
Researchers identify genetic drivers of most common form of lymphoma
DURHAM, N.C. -- Lymphoma is the most common blood cancer, but the diagnosis belies a wildly diverse and little understood ...
Genomic screening helps doctors target girl’s cancer
Credit: Sarah Pack Victoria Thompson, clutching a bag of salt and vinegar potato chips while she watches the TV show ...
Anti-RAS antibodies show poor reliability in recognizing RAS proteins
Researchers from the Greehey Children's Cancer Research Institute at UT Health San Antonio co-authored a paper published Sept. 26 in ...
Neuro-Oncologist Dr. Howard Fine wins NIH Director’s Pioneer Award
Credit: John Abbott NEW YORK (October 5, 2017) -- Internationally renowned neuro-oncologist Dr. Howard A. Fine of Weill Cornell Medicine ...
Study highlights 10 most unnecessary and overused medical tests and treatments
Unnecessary medication. Tests that don't reveal the problem, or uncover a "problem" that isn't really there. Procedures that have more ...
Stealing from the body: How cancer recharges its batteries
New research published today uncovers how the blood cancer 'steals' parts of surrounding healthy bone marrow cells to thrive, in ...
Discovery of a new fusion gene class may affect the development of cancer
A fusion gene occurs when a chromosomal break brings two separate genes together into a new functioning gene. So far, ...
NY State Medicaid expansion widened racial gap in access to high-quality cancer surgery
WASHINGTON -- The 2001 New York State Medicaid expansion -- what is considered a precursor to the Affordable Care (ACA) ...
New Innovator Award of $2.8 million to Julia Oh of JAX for skin microbiome studies
Credit: Jackson Laboratory photo by Tiffany Laufer Julia Oh, Ph.D., a Jackson Laboratory (JAX) assistant professor who explores the communities ...
‘Transformative’ research unrealistic to predict, scientists tell granting agencies
CORVALLIS, Ore. - Research-funding agencies that require scientists to declare at the proposal stage how their projects will be "transformative" ...
Sustainable financing of conservation just got a major boost
Credit: Julie Larsen Maher/WCS The Conservation Finance Alliance (CFA) announced today that the French Facility for Global Environment / Fonds ...
New Innovator Award of $2.8M to Julia Oh of JAX for skin microbiome studies
Credit: Jackson Laboratory photo by Tiffany Laufer Julia Oh, Ph.D., a Jackson Laboratory (JAX) assistant professor who explores the communities ...
International team reconstructs nanoscale virus features from correlations of scattered X-rays
Credit: Jeff Donatelli, Berkeley Lab As part of an international research team, Jeff Donatelli, Peter Zwart and Kanupriya Pande of ...
Sensory loss can be a warning sign of poor health outcomes, including death
A long-term study spanning five years and including more than 3,000 nationally-representative older US adults has found that a natural ...
The Forsyth Institute receives NIH award to advance research on oral microbiomes
Cambridge, MA - October 5, 2017 - A research team led by the Forsyth Institute today received a $5.4 million ...
MTRAC awards spark biomedical innovation at Wayne State University
DETROIT - Three Wayne State University (WSU) research teams were recently awarded funding from Wayne State's Michigan Translational Research and ...
Research identifies potential targets for treatment of leishmaniasis
Brazilian researchers at the University of São Paulo's Bioscience Institute (IB-USP) are starting to unravel the molecular mechanisms by which ...
