Cancer News and Research

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Blocking stress-responsive protein reduces loss of tumor suppressor gene in breast cancer

Over half of all breast cancers carry genetic defects in the p53 gene, a powerful tumor suppressor. Loss of this gene increases the risk of getting breast cancer and the resultant cancers become highly resistant to treatment.

4 Oct 2018

New approach helps identify molecular alterations linked to prognosis, resistance of cancer

A new computational approach that allows the identification of molecular alterations associated with prognosis and resistance to therapy of different types of cancer was developed by the research group led by Nuno Barbosa Morais, Group Leader at Instituto de Medicina Molecular João Lobo Antunes, and now published open access in Nucleic Acids Research.

4 Oct 2018

Two-pronged approach represents potential strategy for targeting latent reservoir of HIV

With more than 35 million people worldwide living with the virus and nearly 2 million new cases each year, the human immunodeficiency virus remains a major global epidemic.

4 Oct 2018

Stevens researchers develop new class of molecules for breast cancer treatment

Researchers at Stevens Institute of Technology and colleagues have designed and developed a new class of molecules that use a never-before-known mechanism that may halt or destroy breast cancer tumors, particularly for patients with drug-resistant or dangerously metastatic stages of the disease.

4 Oct 2018

Women with epilepsy have five times greater risk of dying during pregnancy

The risk of dying during pregnancy is negligible for the average Danish woman, but if the woman in question has epilepsy, the probability must be multiplied by five. This is the central result presented in a comprehensive epidemiological study that researchers from Health, Aarhus University, are behind.

3 Oct 2018

Special glowing paper strip as rapid, reliable test for infectious diseases

Researchers from Eindhoven University of Technology (The Netherlands) and Keio University (Japan) present a practicable and reliable way to test for infectious diseases.

3 Oct 2018

Even lightest daily drinkers have increased mortality risk

Drinking a daily glass of wine for health reasons may not be so healthy after all, suggests a new study from Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis.

3 Oct 2018

DNA Script successfully synthesizes world's first 150-nucleotide strand of DNA

DNA Script, the global leader in the development of enzymatic DNA synthesis, today announced that it has successfully synthesized the world's first 150-nucleotide strand of DNA by de novo enzymatic synthesis.

3 Oct 2018

Researchers develop personalized and low-cost wearable UV sensors

Researchers from the University of Granada and RMIT University in Melbourne have developed personalized and low-cost wearable ultraviolet sensors that warn users when their exposure to the sun has become dangerous.

3 Oct 2018

New method based on artificial intelligence may help predict epilepsy outcomes

Medical University of South Carolina neurologists have developed a new method based on artificial intelligence that may eventually help both patients and doctors weigh the pros and cons of using brain surgery to treat debilitating seizures caused by epilepsy.

3 Oct 2018

Study: Federal Agencies underestimate e-cigarette explosion and burn injuries

Electronic cigarettes (or e-cigarettes) are devices commonly powered by a battery that aerosolize liquid and chemical flavorants.

3 Oct 2018

Researchers insert just enough human DNA into mice to study preterm birth

Preterm birth remains a global epidemic linked to a lifetime of potential health complications. It also is difficult to study in living creatures--especially the uniquely precise biology of preterm birth in humans.

3 Oct 2018

Presence of high-risk HPV in cervical cancer diagnosis linked to improved prognosis

The presence of the human high-risk papillomavirus in the diagnosis of invasive cervical cancer is linked to a greatly improved prognosis compared with if high-risk HPV cannot be identified in the tumor, researchers at Karolinska Institutet in Sweden report in the scientific journal PLOS Medicine.

3 Oct 2018