News tagged with cancer development

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Study finds four new genetic risk factors for testicular cancer

A new study looking at the genomes of more than 13,000 men identified four new genetic variants associated with an increased risk of testicular cancer, the most commonly diagnosed type in young men today. The findings from ...

Genetics created May 12, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Compound stimulates tumor-fighting protein in cancer therapy

A compound that stimulates the production of a tumor-fighting protein may improve the usefulness of the protein in cancer therapy, according to a team of researchers.

Cancer created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity 5 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers discover enzyme behind breast cancer mutations

Researchers at the University of Minnesota have uncovered a human enzyme responsible for causing DNA mutations found in the majority of breast cancers. The discovery of this enzyme – called APOBEC3B – may change the way ...

Cancer created Feb 06, 2013 | popularity 4.5 / 5 (2) | comments 1 | with audio podcast

Team uncovers new insight into cell development and cancer

Long-standing research efforts have been focused on understanding how stem cells, cells capable of transforming into any type of cell in the body, are capable of being programmed down a defined path to contribute ...

Cancer created Dec 27, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers link new molecular culprit to breast cancer progression

(Phys.org)—Johns Hopkins researchers have uncovered a protein "partner" commonly used by breast cancer cells to unlock genes needed for spreading the disease around the body. A report on the discovery, published November ...

Cancer created Nov 25, 2012 | popularity 2.5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers uncover new target for cancer research

In a new paper released today in Nature, BioFrontiers Institute scientists at the University of Colorado Boulder, Tom Cech and Leslie Leinwand, detailed a new target for anti-cancer drug development that is sitting at the ...

Cancer created Oct 24, 2012 | popularity 4.8 / 5 (4) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Research on mice suggests new fertility treatments

Japanese scientists have turned mouse skin cells into eggs that produced baby mice—a technique that, if successfully applied to humans, could someday allow women to stop worrying about the ticking of their ...

Medical research created Oct 04, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (1) | comments 0

Breast cancer risk linked to early-life diet and metabolic syndrome

Striking new evidence suggesting that diet and related factors early in life can boost the risk for breast cancer—totally independent of the body's production of the hormone estrogen—has been uncovered by a team of researchers ...

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Genome-wide scan maps mutations in deadly lung cancers; reveals embryonic gene link

Scientists have completed a comprehensive map of genetic mutations linked to an aggressive and lethal type of lung cancer.

Genetics created Sep 05, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (3) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

New gene variants raise risk of neuroblastoma, influence tumor progression

Researchers have discovered two gene variants that raise the risk of the pediatric cancer neuroblastoma. Using automated technology to perform genome-wide association studies on DNA from thousands of subjects, the study broadens ...

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Landscape of cancer genes and mutational processes in breast cancer

In a study published today in Nature, researchers describe nine new genes that drive the development of breast cancer. This takes the tally of all genes associated with breast cancer development to 40.

Cancer created May 16, 2012 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Researchers use genomics to identify a molecular-based treatment for a viral skin cancer

Four years after they discovered the viral roots of a rare skin cancer, researchers at the University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute (UPCI) and the School of Medicine have now identified a molecule activated by this virus ...

Cancer created May 09, 2012 | popularity 5 / 5 (2) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Some breast cancer spread may be triggered by a protein, study shows

Cancers rarely are deadly unless they evolve the ability to grow beyond the tissues in which they first arise. Normally, cells -- even early-stage tumor cells -- are tethered to scaffolding that helps to restrain ...

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A new approach to cancer treatment published

(Medical Xpress) -- Scientists have discovered a mechanism that causes an aggressive type of lung cancer to re-grow following chemotherapy, offering hope for new therapies.

Cancer created Oct 10, 2011 | popularity 4.2 / 5 (5) | comments 0 | with audio podcast

Brain cell migration during normal development may offer insight on how cancer cells spread

By shedding new light on how cells migrate in the developing brain, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center also may have found a new mechanism by which other types of cells, including cancer cells, travel within ...

Neuroscience created Apr 24, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0 | with audio podcast