http://medicalxpress.com/ en-us Medical Xpress internet news portal provides the latest news on Health and Medicine. New research, presented this morning at the 54th Annual Meeting of the American Society of Hematology (ASH), has identified important associations between Plasmodium falciparum (Pf) malaria and endemic Burkitt Lymphoma (eBL) that may help researchers identify young children who are more susceptible to eBL. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-12-susceptibility-burkitt-lymphoma.html Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes Tue, 11 Dec 2012 14:54:08 EST news274459994 In the first broad genetic landscape mapped of a Burkitt lymphoma tumor, scientists at Duke Medicine and their collaborators identified 70 mutations, including several that had not previously been associated with cancer and a new one that was unique to the disease. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-11-genome-sequencing-burkitt-lymphoma-reveals.html Genetics Mon, 12 Nov 2012 11:03:27 EST news271940597 Germinal centers are sites in the organs of the lymphatic system, formed during the course of an immune response to infection, where B cells intensely proliferate and modify their DNA in order to produce antibodies specific for the pathogen. However, it is known that the vast majority of lymphomas derive from the B cells at the germinal centers. http://medicalxpress.com/news/2012-09-puzzle-b-cell-lymphoma.html Immunology Sun, 23 Sep 2012 13:00:08 EST news267602068