Researchers from the UNC School of Medicine have discovered that the protein RBM4, a molecule crucial to the process of gene splicing, is drastically decreased in multiple forms of human cancer, including lung and breast ...
Sep 8, 2014
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(Medical Xpress)—Infant rhesus monkeys receiving different diets early in life develop distinct immune systems that persist months after weaning, a study by researchers from UC Davis, the California National Primate Research ...
Sep 4, 2014
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Researchers have found a major piece of genetic evidence that confirms the role of a group of virus-fighting genes in cancer development.
Apr 13, 2014
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A new study in Cell Reports identifies a gene important to breast development and breast cancer, providing a potential new target for drug therapies to treat aggressive types of breast cancer.
Mar 6, 2014
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Researchers from Melbourne's Walter and Eliza Hall Institute have discovered that breast stem cells and their 'daughters' have a much longer lifespan than previously thought, and are active in puberty and throughout life.
Jan 26, 2014
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A novel breast-cancer therapy that partially reverses the cancerous state in cultured breast tumor cells and prevents cancer development in mice, could one day provide a new way to treat early stages of the disease without ...
Jan 1, 2014
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A decade-long research effort to uncover the environmental causes of breast cancer by studying both lab animals and a group of healthy US girls has turned up some surprises, scientists say.
Nov 10, 2013
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New research in Pediatrics shows obesity is the largest predictor of earlier onset puberty in girls, which is affecting white girls much sooner than previously reported.
Nov 4, 2013
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(Medical Xpress)—The native peoples of Easter Island are known locally as the Rapa Nui. In the 1970s, a potent antifungal was discovered in a bacterium that lives in the soil there. Researchers named the molecule, rapamycin, ...
In an editorial published in Endocrinology, a journal of The Endocrine Society, endocrine experts agreed that endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) pose a threat to human health and to the ecosystems of the earth. The editorial ...
Sep 23, 2013
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