News tagged with burkitt lymphoma


New research helps predict susceptibility to Burkitt lymphoma

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) ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes created Dec 11, 2012 | popularity 3 / 5 (1) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Genome sequencing of Burkitt Lymphoma reveals unique mutation

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 ...

Genetics created Nov 12, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Solving puzzle of B-cell lymphoma development

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 ...

Immunology created Sep 23, 2012 | popularity 4.9 / 5 (7) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

'If Hamlet give the first or second hit': The development of Burkitt's lymphoma

The human c-myc gene encodes a transcription factor (MYC) involved in the regulation of a vast number of other genes – it has been estimated that the transcription of about one in six genes is somehow under the control ...

Cancer created Nov 08, 2011 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0