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From heart attacks to cancer: What role do long, non-coding RNAs play?
5/14/2015
About 70 percent of our genes provide the blueprint for biomolecules whose function is only now being discovered - non-coding RNAs.
U-M researchers take step toward bringing precision medicine to all cancer patients
5/14/2015
New assay simplifies gene sequencing analysisResearchers from the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center and Thermo Fisher Scientific have developed and tested a new tool that...
Dartmouth team devises use of food dye, near infrared light to aid in breast resection
5/14/2015
Roughly 1 in 4 women having breast conserving surgery (BCS) return to the surgical suite for further resection because of cancerous tissue left behind due to unclear margins.
MRI shows potential to improve breast cancer risk prediction
5/14/2015
Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) provides important information about a woman's future risk of developing breast cancer, according to a new study published in Radiology.
Combined radiation and hormonal therapy improves survival in node-positive prostate cancer
5/14/2015
Study of large national database reveals that combination therapy reduced death risk by 50 percent, compared with hormone therapy aloneA new study finds that men with prostate cancer that has...
New Harvard research finds walnuts may help slow colon cancer growth
5/14/2015
A walnut-enriched diet may cause beneficial genetic changes in animal cancer cells, affecting inflammation, blood supply and growth of tumorsA walnut-enriched diet may cause beneficial genetic...
80 percent of cervical cancers found to be preventable with latest 9-valent HPV vaccine
5/14/2015
The new 9-valent human papillomavirus vaccine, can potentially prevent 80 percent of cervical cancers in the United States, if given to all 11- or 12-year-old children before they are exposed to the...
First cancer-promoting oncogenes discovered in rare brain tumor of children and adults
5/14/2015
St. Jude Children's Research Hospital researchers have identified the first genetic alterations responsible for the brain tumor choroid plexus carcinoma using an approach that could help find...
Dying cells can protect their stem cells from destruction
5/14/2015
An SOS signal from dying daughter cells allows their mother stem cells to protect themselves from radiation and chemotherapy damageCells dying as the result of radiation exposure or chemotherapy...
Gene found that is essential to maintaining breast and cancer stem cells
5/14/2015
The gene and hormone soup that enables women to breastfeed their newborns also can be a recipe for breast cancer, particularly when the first pregnancy is after age 30.