(Medical Xpress)—The risk of a child to inherit mitochondrial diseases - i. e. malfunction in what is usually referred to as the power plants of the cell - is largely decided when the future mother herself is still an embryo. ...
Oct 8, 2012
1
0
A new study from the University of Southern California (USC) has found a link between recreational marijuana use and an increased risk of developing subtypes of testicular cancer that tend to carry a somewhat worse prognosis. ...
Sep 10, 2012
7
0
Using the only microscope of its kind in Australia, medical scientists have been able for the first time to see the inner workings of T-cells, the front-line troops that alert our immune system to go on the defensive against ...
Jun 5, 2011
0
0
Women with a type of ovarian cancer known as germ cell tumors have a worse prognosis than men with similar tumors (i.e., testicular cancer). After five years with the disease, 98% of men were alive while the survival rate ...
Mar 12, 2024
0
0
Correct development of testes in a male fetus—and fertility later in life—depend on a crucial hormone being at just the right level.
Feb 13, 2024
0
0
A recent survey has identified differing opinions between the lay public and trained scientists on genome editing research using human embryos, which will help to guide future bioethical and policy discussions with the lay ...
Oct 12, 2023
0
13
More than three months after suffering from mild COVID infection, men have lower sperm concentrations and fewer sperm that are able to swim, according to new findings presented at the 39th annual meeting of the European Society ...
Jun 26, 2023
0
61
Cancer is often seen as a disease that arises from genetic mutations causing cells to divide uncontrollably and invade other parts of the body. But the spread of cells away from their origins is actually a normal process ...
Feb 10, 2023
0
2
Researchers identified a higher rate of clonal hematopoiesis (CH) and prevalence of treatment-induced STAT3 gene mutations in blood samples from a large cohort of survivors of pediatric cancer, compared with age-matched controls.
Feb 8, 2023
0
14
Extra copies of a piece of DNA partly explain insensitivity to chemotherapy in germ cell cancer, a new study shows. According to research leader Prof. Dr. Leendert Looijenga, "In the future, our findings could help pick out ...
Apr 20, 2022
0
3
