Oncology & Cancer

A potential early esophageal cancer antigen: DDX53

A new research paper has been published in Oncoscience, titled "An immunoinformatics assessment of the cancer testis antigen, DDX53, as a potential early esophageal cancer antigen."

Health informatics

Big data to help predict individual trauma patient outcome

Chinese researchers are using big data to help identify trauma patients who could experience potential adverse health events in the emergency department through the aid of a clinical decision support system. It was developed ...

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

COVID-19 data models caused delays in response

A University of Derby academic named as one of the UK's most influential technology figures has argued that the models used for analyzing COVID-19 data caused delays in action taken to combat the coronavirus pandemic.

Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes

China reports zero local virus cases as Delta outbreak retreats

China reported no new domestic coronavirus cases Monday, and Beijing appears poised to bring to heel the pandemic's most serious resurgence in months—driven by the highly contagious Delta variant—with mass testing and ...

Genetics

Researchers develop a molecular taxonomy for hair disorders

Two decades ago, oncologists realized that molecular biologists could see medically important differences between tumors that looked identical to pathologists. Molecular biologists could read information in the genome to ...

Health

Individual privacy and big data uses in public health

In the United States, massive volumes of individual-level data, called "big data," are used for a variety of reasons, including marketing, intelligence gathering and political campaigns. Big data are also vital to public ...

Medical research

A vision for medicine precision with new disease data link-up

Vast amounts of data generated by screening patients for diseases like cancer and arthritis at The University of Manchester will now be used to improve treatment and drug safety in partnership with the University of Dundee.

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