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Three earn prestigious awards for studies of cancer, DNA damage
Three researchers won prestigious medical awards Tuesday for a new approach to treating cancer and insights into how creatures deal with DNA damage.
Sep 8, 2015
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Medical research
New research helps explain why a deadly blood cancer often affects children with malaria
In equatorial Africa, a region of the globe known as the "lymphoma belt," children are ten times more likely than in other parts of the world to develop Burkitt's lymphoma, a highly aggressive blood cancer that can be fatal ...
Aug 13, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Stress responder is a first responder in helping repair DNA damage and avoiding cancer
DNA damage increases the risk of cancer, and researchers have found that a protein, known to rally when cells get stressed, plays a critical, early step in its repair.
Aug 3, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Strange circular DNA may offer new way to detect cancers
Strange rings of DNA that exist outside chromosomes are distinct to the cell types that mistakenly produced them, researchers have discovered. The finding raises the tantalizing possibility that the rings could be used as ...
Jul 30, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
New 'chemotherapy booster' could treat lung and pancreatic cancer
A new drug that blocks cancer's escape route from chemotherapy could be used to treat deadly lung and pancreatic cancers, research has revealed.
Jul 23, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
DNA damage seen in patients undergoing CT scanning, study finds
Using new laboratory technology, scientists have shown that cellular damage is detectable in patients after CT scanning, according to a new study led by researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine.
Jul 22, 2015
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Alzheimer's disease & dementia
High levels of DNA damage in nerve cells can lead to dementia
Scientists from the world-leading Sheffield Institute for Translational Neuroscience (SITraN) have discovered a novel pathway contributing to dementia in individuals that lack the typical signs of Alzheimer's disease in the ...
Jun 29, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Action spectrum of sun skin damage documented
Scientists document for the first time the DNA damage which can occur to skin across the full range of ultraviolet radiation from the sun.
Jun 26, 2015
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Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Pneumonia found to harm DNA in lung cells
A bacterium that is the most common cause of pneumonia—a leading cause of death worldwide—can damage DNA in lung cells, a new study has shown.
Jun 16, 2015
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Oncology & Cancer
Study finds gene mutations sensitize tumors to specific cancer drugs
Mutations in ARID1a, which are common in many cancer types, disrupt DNA damage repair in cancer cells, allowing the cancer to progress. This gene may also be an Achilles' heel when treating certain tumors, according to a ...
Jun 11, 2015
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