The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and Accelerator Life Science Partners, a leading life science investment and management firm, today announced the launch...
Credit: Weizmann Institute of Science Nitrogen is a basic building block of all the body's proteins, RNA and DNA, so cancerous tumors are greedy for...
Scientists have discovered that a marker in the blood could help predict the risk that a person will develop kidney cancer, according to research* published...
Credit: Alisa Weigandt for Duke Health DURHAM, N.C. -- Glioblastoma brain tumors can have an unusual effect on the body's immune system, often causing a...
More than two-thirds of women with ovarian cancer have high-grade serous carcinoma (HGSC). Up to 90 percent of HGSCs are not detected until they are...
Credit: Michelle Dawson / Brown University PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- Polyploidal cancer cells--cells that have more than two copies of each chromosome--are much larger than most...
Credit: Erica Overfelt, Bond Life Sciences Center More than 100 years ago, German Nobel laureate Paul Ehrlich popularized the "magic bullet" concept -- a method...
Elephants have evolved a way to make LIF6 (a non-functioning, or dead, gene in mammals) come back to life, and it's what makes the largest...
Credit: Eleanor Yarisse An estimated 17 percent of humans worldwide die from cancer, but less than five percent of captive elephants--who also live for about...
WASHINGTON -- A valuable cache of brain cancer biomedical data has been made freely available to researchers worldwide, say researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer...
(New York, NY - August 14, 2018)-- For the first time, Mount Sinai researchers have identified a way to make large numbers of immune cells...
Credit: Chris Schiering, Francis Crick Institute Chemicals produced by vegetables such as kale, cabbage and broccoli could help to maintain a healthy gut and prevent...
Medically underserved women in the Southeast diagnosed with breast cancer or ovarian cancer missed out on genetic testing that could have helped them and their...
Credit: Lehigh University To test for malignancy or monitor the effectiveness of cancer treatment, a person's tissue must be extracted, sent to a lab, stained...
Credit: National Cancer Institute An interim analysis of data from a randomized clinical trial of patients with human papillomavirus (HPV)-positive oropharyngeal cancer found that treatment...
