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A global increase in antioxidant defenses of the body may delay aging and its diseases
3/16/2016
The gradual accumulation of cell damage plays a very important role in the origin of ageing.
Pancreatic cancer's reliance on key protein may offer new drug target
3/16/2016
Researchers find prostate cancer uses a protein called renalase for cell proliferation and that monoclonal antibodies of it kill pancreatic cancer cells and treat tumors in mice.
No evidence that genetic tests change people's behaviour
3/15/2016
Genetic tests that provide an estimate of an individual's risk of developing diseases such as lung cancer and heart disease do not appear to motivate a change in behaviour to reduce the risk...
Conflicting expectations between parents and medical providers about who is responsible for scheduling follow-up appointments is resulting in a failure of young girls completing the Human Papilloma...
New treatment for chronic lymphatic leukaemia could replace chemotherapy
3/15/2016
Studies conducted at the Comprehensive Cancer Center at MedUni Vienna and Vienna General Hospital show that the drugs ibrutinib and idelalisib used in the targeted treatment of chronic lymphatic...
Largest genomic study on kidney cancer brings hope for more effective treatments
3/15/2016
Understanding the complexity of cancer is a major goal of the scientific community, and for kidney cancer researchers this goal just got closer. Dr.
EU researchers link reprogramming to stem cell formation and cancer
3/15/2016
Their findings, which are published in Nature Cell Biology, may have implications for both, regenerative medicine and treatment of myeloid leukemia.
Alcohol triggers breast cancer-causing gene
3/15/2016
A new study shows a direct link between alcohol consumption, estrogen and a cancer-causing gene; researchers hope their findings can be used in cancer prevention.
Scientists have synthesized new molecules with anticancer and antioxidant activity
3/15/2016
A group of scientists from Moscow universities led by Yan Ivanenkov, the head of Laboratory of Medical Chemistry and Bioinformatics in MIPT, has succeeded in synthesizing a set of novel...
Leukemia study reveals role of RNA binding protein in driving cancer
3/15/2016
Abnormally expressed in cancer cells, the protein was found to promote the proliferation of B cells in B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia.