A New Insight Into How DNA Is Held Together by Hydrophobic Effects
Note: This article and headline were updated on September 29, 2019, to clarify the impact of the research. Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, Sweden,…
Cancer
Warning: Cancer Threat From U.S. Tap Water Contaminants Discovered
A toxic cocktail of chemical pollutants in U.S. drinking water could result in more than 100,000 cancer cases, according to a peer-reviewed study from Environmental…
Researchers Developing Handheld Device to Rapidly Diagnose Skin Cancer
The proven technology will be designed into a handheld device that could reduce the need for painful biopsies by 50 percent — and disrupt the…
New Anti-Cancer Nanomedicine Delivers Efficient Chemotherapy
Researchers at the University of Helsinki in collaboration with researchers from Åbo Akademi University (Finland) and Huazhong University of Science and Technology (China) have developed…
Incredible New Imaging Technology Could ‘Revolutionize’ Cancer Surgery
‘This is the future, a huge step towards our ultimate goal of revolutionizing surgical oncology.’ Cancer treatment could be dramatically improved by an invention at…
New Breakthrough in Cancer Hair Loss Treatment Discovered
Scientists have determined a new way to protect the hair follicle from chemotherapy in an effort to prevent hair loss as a result of cancer…
Golden Future of Cancer Treatment: Gold-Based Molecules That Target Cancer Cells
Researchers have engineered gold-based molecules that target cancer cells and leave healthy cells unharmed, in a critical step towards precision cancer drugs with fewer toxic…
Remarkable Progress Towards Cancer Detecting Urine Tests
A simple and sensitive urine test developed by Imperial and MIT engineers has produced a color change in urine to signal growing tumors in mice….
Eating Mushrooms May Help Prevent Prostate Cancer
A new study published in the International Journal of Cancer found an inverse relationship between mushroom consumption and the development of prostate cancer among middle-aged…
Accurate Cancer Detection During Surgery with ‘MasSpec Pen’
A major challenge for cancer surgeons is to determine exactly where a tumor starts and where it ends. Removing too much tissue can impair normal…
Diabetes Can Increase Cancer Risk. Here’s How.
For years, scientists have been trying to solve a medical mystery: Why do people with type 1 or type 2 diabetes have an increased risk…
New Skin Patch Could Quickly and Painlessly Deliver Vaccines and Cancer Medications
Melanoma is a deadly form of skin cancer that has been increasing in the U.S. for the past 30 years. Nearly 100,000 new cases of…
Study Shows Frying Oil Consumption Worsens Colon Cancer and Colitis
Research by University of Massachusetts at Amherst food scientists compared effects of fresh and thermally processed oil. Foods fried in vegetable oil are popular worldwide,…
New Compound Accelerates Blood System’s Recovery After Chemotherapy
In mice, new compound lifts molecular ‘brakes’ that normally slow the regeneration of blood stem cells. A drug developed by UCLA physician-scientists and chemists speeds…
Cancer Risk From Being Overweight at Least Double Previous Estimates
The effect of being overweight and obesity on risk of cancer is at least twice as large as previously thought according to new findings by…
Radical New View of Gene Control
Along the genome, proteins form liquid-like droplets that appear to boost the expression of particular genes. In recent years, MIT scientists have developed a new…
New Super-Charged Treatment Boosts T-Cell Therapy
A promising new way to treat some types of cancer is to program the patient’s own T cells to destroy the cancerous cells. This approach,…
Researchers Discover Molecular Key to How Cancer Spreads
Yale researchers have discovered how metastasis, the spread of cancer cells throughout the body, is triggered on the molecular level, and have developed a tool…