Energy dense foods may increase cancer risk regardless of obesity status
Credit: C.A. Thomson Philadelphia, PA, August 17, 2017 - Diet is believed to play a role in cancer risk. Current research shows that an estimated...
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Deep-sea sponges — home to the next generation of antimicrobials?
Marine sponges and the deep-sea ecosystem are comparatively under-studied and under-exploited compared with life in shallower waters - but a team of scientists from the...
NASA Ppotects its super heroes from space weather
Credit: NASA/SOHO It's not a bird or a plane but it might be a solar storm. We like to think of astronauts as our super...
New strategy to treat aggressive lung cancer
Dignity Health St. Joseph's Researchers Discover a Novel Therapeutic Strategy to Treat a Particularly Aggressive Subgroup of Lung Cancer PHOENIX (Aug. 16, 2017) - Research...
Impaired DNA replication can cause epigenetic changes inherited for several generations
Credit: Adam Klosin, CRG Cell division is key for renewing the cells in our tissues and organs. There are two particular processes in which cell...
Noninvasive detection for early stage cancers from circulating DNA
A new DNA sequencing-based method could help noninvasively detect early stage cancers by analyzing fragments of genetic material circulating in the blood that originate from...
Scientists develop blood test that spots tumor-derived DNA in people with early-stage cancers
Credit: Reprinted with permission from Victor Velculescu et al., Science Translational Medicine 2017 In a bid to detect cancers early and in a noninvasive way,...
Popular immunotherapy target turns out to have a surprising buddy
Credit: The Netherlands Cancer Institute The majority of current cancer immunotherapies focus on PD-L1. This well studied protein turns out to be controlled by a...
Toxic formaldehyde is produced inside our own cells, scientists discover
New research has revealed that some of the toxin formaldehyde in our bodies does not come from our environment - it is a by-product of...
Cell cycle-blocking drugs can shrink tumors by enlisting immune system in attack on cancer
BOSTON -- In the brief time that drugs known as CDK4/6 inhibitors have been approved for the treatment of metastatic breast cancer, doctors have made...
Specialists make breakthrough in the treatment of anal cancer
Specialists at The Christie and The University of Manchester have made a breakthrough which could potentially improve detection and treatment of anal cancer, as well...
Blood biopsy reveals unique, targetable genetic alterations in patients with rare cancer
Credit: UC San Diego Health Using fragments of circulating tumor DNA in blood, University of California San Diego School of Medicine researchers were able to...
Insilico establishes collaboration with GSK to discover novel biological targets and molecules
Credit: Insilico Medicine,Inc. Wednesday, Aug. 16, 2017, Baltimore, Md. - Insilico Medicine, a Baltimore-based company at the forefront of artificial intelligence (AI) research for drug...
Researchers map brain tumor cells’ adaptation to oxygen deprivation
Credit: Louise Cornmark The most aggressive variant of brain tumour - glioblastoma - has an average survival rate of 15 months. There is therefore an...
Researchers identify oestrogen receptor stem cells in the in the mammary gland
One of the key questions in stem cell and cancer biology is to understand the cellular hierarchy governing tissue development and maintenance and the cancer...
