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Soaking soybeans in warm water could be a much easier, environmentally friendly way of extracting a cancer-fighting substance that is currently manufactured in a... Read More »
A research team at Albert Einstein College of Medicine of Yeshiva University has discovered a molecule in animal studies that inhibits the action of estrogen. The... Read More »
Nanotechnology is the study and manipulation of matter at sizes between 1 and 100 nanometers. Nanomedicine is a burgeoning branch of nanotechnology that focuses on... Read More »
All cells can recycle unwanted proteins and reuse the building blocks as food. Cancer cells ramp up this system, called autophagy, and rely on it to escape damage... Read More »
Scientists have finally pinpointed the molecular cause of a painful and often devastating condition that affects 60 percent of women by the age of 45. Researchers at... Read More »
Over the past century, the personal response to breast cancer has dramatically changed. While breast cancer is still greatly feared (and rightly so), the increased... Read More »
Lung cancer is the leading cause of cancer deaths because of the difficulty in halting the proliferation of lung tumors which, is controlled by the development of... Read More »
Scientists have discovered, for the first time, a possible causative link between the concentration of circulating Y-chromosome fetal cells in women who... Read More »
Treatment of breast cancer patients can fail because cancer cells develop resistance to drugs like tamoxifen. Dr. Stefan Wiemann of German Cancer Research Center... Read More »
The use of single positron emission computed tomography (SPECT)/CT imaging is changing the clinical management in a significant number of thyroid cancer patients... Read More »
A research team from the University of North Carolina has developed nanoparticle carriers to deliver therapeutic doses of a cancer drug that previously failed in... Read More »
University of California, San Francisco researchers have used a novel breast cancer imaging technique in mice to uncover new hints to why the human immune system... Read More »
Myeloid cell leukemia sequence 1 (MCL1), a protein of the BCL2 family, is a critical regulator of apoptosis, the process of programmed cell death, and is essential in ... Read More »
University of California, Los Angeles bioengineering researchers have taken advantage of cells' physical properties to develop a new instrument that slams... Read More »
Fanconi anemia, a recessive hereditary disease, leads to dysplasia, degeneration of bone marrow, and an increased risk of leukemia and tumors. Now, new research... Read More »
Stage III and IV melanoma patients are routinely tested for the BRAF gene mutation, a known oncogene for melanoma. Recently, Vemurafenib, a new FDA-approved drug, was ... Read More »
Scientists have found a promising new target for drugs to treat aggressive pancreatic cancer, according to a study published in Nature. Researchers from Cancer... Read More »
Women should begin to get mammograms in their 40s, according a new study published in the latest issue of American Journal of Roentgenology which explored the... Read More »
A gene that promotes initial development of the most common form of lung cancer and then drives its metastases has been identified by Mayo Clinic researchers in... Read More »
A new study comparing the results of robot-assisted radical prostatectomy (RARP) to the current standard, open radical prostatectomy (ORP) has found that patients who ... Read More »