Oncology & Cancer

Brain tumor study highlights differences among Hispanics

Although typically classified as a single ethnic group, people of Hispanic heritage have markedly different risks for brain tumors based on their geographic origins, suggesting greater diversity that warrants attention in ...

Oncology & Cancer

Key factor found in tumorigenicity of glioma stem cells

Researchers led by Prof. Fang Zhiyou and Prof. Chen Xueran from the Hefei Institutes of Physical Science (HFIPS) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (CAS), have found, for the first time, that Oct4A is the key factor in maintaining ...

Medical research

Can 'smell' trigger tumors?

How tumors emerge has always been quite a conundrum in the scientific community.

Oncology & Cancer

Epigenetic study provides new insights into the origins of glioma

MicroRNA-10b (miR-10b) is a regulatory molecule that is silenced in normal cells of the brain but becomes abundant in more than 90 percent of high-grade gliomas. Glioblastomas (GBM) — the highest grade of glioma — appear ...

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