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Brain tumor cells infected with a cancer-killing virus release a protein that warns other tumor cells of the impending infection and enables them to mount a defense... Read More »

Geneticist Michael Snyder has almost no privacy. For more than two years, he and his lab members at Stanford University pored over his body’s most intimate... Read More »

Antibodies, once touted as the ‘magic bullets’ of cancer care, are now fulfilling that promise and more advances are on the way, say cancer researchers at ... Read More »

A recent study by National University of Singapore (NUS) researchers revealed that breast cancer patients who had received or were undergoing chemotherapy treatment... Read More »

Dietary cadmium, a toxic metal widely dispersed in the environment and found in many farm fertilizers, may lead to an increased risk of breast cancer, according to a... Read More »

Huntington's disease is a debilitating congenital neurological disorder without effective treatment. But, a special type of brain cell forged from stem cells... Read More »

A new research report shows why the development of treatments for HIV has been so difficult. The report explains how Jack da Silva, author of the study, used computer ... Read More »

Psychiatry is employing smartphone technology as an innovative tool in the assessment and treatment of schizophrenia and other serious mental illness. Prominent in... Read More »

New technology could significantly decrease the cost of drug discovery, potentially leading to increased access to high-quality, personalized health care. Steven... Read More »

Watching too much TV can worsen your genetic tendency towards obesity, but you can cut the effect in half by walking briskly for an hour a day, researchers report at... Read More »

When it comes to breast cancer, not all tumors are created equal. Small tumors may pack a deadlier punch, depending on the specific type of cancer. To determine the... Read More »

The number of people who died from gastroenteritis (inflammation of the stomach and intestines that causes vomiting and diarrhea) more than doubled from 1999 to 2007, ... Read More »

Clinical trials are designed to show that a drug is safe and effective. But even the largest trials can't identify irksome or even dangerous side effects... Read More »

A catheter procedure that closes a hole in patients' hearts was no more effective than medical therapy in preventing recurrent strokes, according to a new study... Read More »

Scientists have identified a compound that rapidly kills hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) cells, the most common form of liver cancer, while sparing healthy... Read More »

Most of us assume that the drugs we get at the pharmacy are chemical compounds created in a test tube. However, as Dr. Leslie Gunatilaka of the University of Arizona... Read More »

Researchers at the RIKEN Omics Science Center have developed an experimental technique for producing cells with specific functions through the artificial... Read More »

Scientists from the Friedrich Miescher Institute for Biomedical Research (part of the Novartis Research Foundation), with colleagues from the University of Fribourg... Read More »

Cancer is usually attributed to faulty genes, but growing evidence from the field of cancer epigenetics indicates a key role for the gene "silencing"... Read More »

Researchers at the University of Kentucky have provided new insight into why the most severe subtype of breast cancer in humans frequently metastasizes. Tumor cells... Read More »