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Targeted Therapy: one of the major modalities of medical treatment for cancer, others being hormonal therapy and cytotoxic chemotherapy.
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OCT 04, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
A study of South African children unveiled a startling discovery: 1 in 10 children may have a natural “monkey-like ...OCT 03, 2016Neuroscience
Globally, about 15 million people will suffer a stroke each year. 1/3 will die, 1/3 will be left disabled and the other ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimOCT 02, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Decoy sequences of DNA are able to interfere with gene expression, and in ways that are not yet well understood. New fin ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 30, 2016Cancer
Tiny non-coding RNA molecules are now being marshaled against breast cancer. In a recent report, scientists at the Massa ...SEP 28, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
About three to six percent of the population is fervently afraid of spiders. Just the thought of the hairy eight-legged ...SEP 26, 2016Cancer
Everyone knows sleep is important. Getting a good night’s sleep resets your brain, allows for efficient cell repai ...Written By: Jennifer EllisSEP 26, 2016Cancer
A new microfluidic chip can pick out any cancer cell of choice obtained from liquid biopsy to perform single cell analys ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)SEP 24, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells use proteins as placeholders or bookmarks that help the cells to pick up where they left off when gene expression ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 23, 2016Cancer
Earlier this week, I reported that scientists discovered how some cancers apparently switched off their sweet tooth to b ...SEP 23, 2016Microbiology
Holy magnetic bacteria, Batman! Researchers at the Polytechnique Montreal NanoRobotics Laboratory want to use magnetic b ...Written By: Kerry EvansSEP 21, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Powerful New Research Tool Reveals How Tecfidera® Blocks T-Cell Activation LA JOLLA, CA—September 21, 2016&mda ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)SEP 20, 2016Immunology
After years of research and improvements, antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a reliably effective way to prevent an infecti ...Written By: Kara MarkerSEP 17, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects nearly half of all men aged 51 - 60 and 90 percent of men older than 80 years ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 16, 2016Health & Medicine
LA JOLLA, CA—September 16, 2016—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a potent ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)SEP 16, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
New work performed at Stanford University has revealed a neuronal circuit in the brain that is critical to the cycle of ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 16, 2016Cancer
In school most of us are taught that DNA is arranged as a double helix. The discovery of this basic structure, after all ...SEP 15, 2016Microbiology
Scientists have linked the microbiome, the community of bacterial organisms that reside in our gut, with myriad health c ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 14, 2016Cancer
In researching how the breast clears out cells after the milk supply is finished, scientists at the University of Sheffi ...SEP 12, 2016Genetics & Genomics
Dana Farber/Boston Children's has been able to selectively silence a gene, BCL11A, found in 2008 to be an integral part ...Written By: Jennifer EllisSEP 12, 2016Cancer
A drug that’s currently under testing in people has been found to kill melanoma cells, even the treatment-resistan ...SEP 12, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
The cone snail has been recognized as a natural born killer. While it moves incredibly slowly, it doesn’t have to ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 10, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Heat shock proteins are known to help the body respond to stress, but new research appears to implicate one of them, Hsp ...Written By: Carmen LeitchSEP 09, 2016Videos
A new chemotherapy drug for chronic lymphocytic leukemia has been given approval by the FDA. CLL is the most common form ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimSEP 07, 2016Cancer
When treating cancer, doctors have turned to immunotherapy to help target actual tumors instead of attacking all rapidly ...Written By: Jennifer Ellis
OCT 04, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
A study of South African children unveiled a startling discovery: 1 in 10 children may have a natural “monkey-like
...
OCT 03, 2016
Neuroscience
Globally, about 15 million people will suffer a stroke each year. 1/3 will die, 1/3 will be left disabled and the other
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
OCT 02, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Decoy sequences of DNA are able to interfere with gene expression, and in ways that are not yet well understood. New fin
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 30, 2016
Cancer
Tiny non-coding RNA molecules are now being marshaled against breast cancer. In a recent report, scientists at the Massa
...
SEP 28, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
About three to six percent of the population is fervently afraid of spiders. Just the thought of the hairy eight-legged
...
SEP 26, 2016
Cancer
Everyone knows sleep is important. Getting a good night’s sleep resets your brain, allows for efficient cell repai
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 26, 2016
Cancer
A new microfluidic chip can pick out any cancer cell of choice obtained from liquid biopsy to perform single cell analys
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
SEP 24, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Cells use proteins as placeholders or bookmarks that help the cells to pick up where they left off when gene expression
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 23, 2016
Cancer
Earlier this week, I reported that scientists discovered how some cancers apparently switched off their sweet tooth to b
...
SEP 23, 2016
Microbiology
Holy magnetic bacteria, Batman! Researchers at the Polytechnique Montreal NanoRobotics Laboratory want to use magnetic b
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
SEP 21, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Powerful New Research Tool Reveals How Tecfidera® Blocks T-Cell Activation LA JOLLA, CA—September 21, 2016&mda
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
SEP 20, 2016
Immunology
After years of research and improvements, antiretroviral therapy (ART) is a reliably effective way to prevent an infecti
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
SEP 17, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Benign prostatic hyperplasia (BPH) affects nearly half of all men aged 51 - 60 and 90 percent of men older than 80 years
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2016
Health & Medicine
LA JOLLA, CA—September 16, 2016—Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) have discovered a potent
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
SEP 16, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
New work performed at Stanford University has revealed a neuronal circuit in the brain that is critical to the cycle of
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 16, 2016
Cancer
In school most of us are taught that DNA is arranged as a double helix. The discovery of this basic structure, after all
...
SEP 15, 2016
Microbiology
Scientists have linked the microbiome, the community of bacterial organisms that reside in our gut, with myriad health c
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 14, 2016
Cancer
In researching how the breast clears out cells after the milk supply is finished, scientists at the University of Sheffi
...
SEP 12, 2016
Genetics & Genomics
Dana Farber/Boston Children's has been able to selectively silence a gene, BCL11A, found in 2008 to be an integral part
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis
SEP 12, 2016
Cancer
A drug that’s currently under testing in people has been found to kill melanoma cells, even the treatment-resistan
...
SEP 12, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
The cone snail has been recognized as a natural born killer. While it moves incredibly slowly, it doesn’t have to
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 10, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Heat shock proteins are known to help the body respond to stress, but new research appears to implicate one of them, Hsp
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
SEP 09, 2016
Videos
A new chemotherapy drug for chronic lymphocytic leukemia has been given approval by the FDA. CLL is the most common form
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
SEP 07, 2016
Cancer
When treating cancer, doctors have turned to immunotherapy to help target actual tumors instead of attacking all rapidly
...
Written By:
Jennifer Ellis