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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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MAY 10, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Since the development of the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers have found many ways to both improve and vary th ...Written By: Carmen LeitchMAY 07, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
For the first time, scientist demonstrate an effective way to deliver drugs to the placenta – a feat that’s ...MAY 06, 2016Cancer
Prostate cancer represents a huge health risk for half the world’s population, as it is the most common form of ca ...MAY 04, 2016Cancer
Scientists say they’re now closer than ever to personalized treatment for breast cancer after identifying a compre ...MAY 03, 2016Cancer
Designing effective new drugs, especially drugs to fight cancer, demands that you know as much as you can about the mole ...Written By: The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)MAY 02, 2016Health & Medicine
It is the antibodies that detect pathogens in order to fight infections and prevent disease, but there is an entire team ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 29, 2016Cancer
What do cancer researchers think is the most dangerous part of cancer? Metastasis. This is the ability of cancer to spre ...APR 29, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Starving immune cells of key nutrients thwarts their ability to launch an allergic response, according to new resea ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 22, 2016Health & Medicine
Macrophages exist in every type of body tissue, in the lungs as alveolar macrophages and in the liver as Kupffer cells. ...Written By: Kara MarkerAPR 22, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have created a new and highly efficient method for gene transfer. The technique, which involves culturing and ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 22, 2016Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have uncovered a new mechanism of bone erosion—and a possible biomarker—for rheumatoid arthritis ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)APR 19, 2016Cancer
Efficacy issues have always plagued cancer treatments. It’s estimated that as little as 0.001 and 0.01 percent of ...APR 17, 2016Cancer
Virtually every type of cancer has metastatic potential – that is, the tumor cells can leave its original site and ...APR 07, 2016Cancer
Lung cancer is the second most common form of cancer in both men and women. With such a high incidence rate and an equal ...APR 07, 2016Health & Medicine
How much medication should you be prescribed? Everyone is born with a different body, so how much and what kind of medic ...Written By: Julianne ChiaetMAR 31, 2016Health & Medicine
A painful inflammatory disease has been plaguing a Flemish family for more than three generations, and for the first tim ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 30, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
To help treat pancreatic cancer, scientists are taking a step back to diagnose the disease before it becomes lethal. In ...MAR 28, 2016Neuroscience
Anorexia nervosa is more than just a desire to lose weight and control eating. Individuals who suffer with this eating d ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimMAR 26, 2016Cancer
One of the biggest surprise findings from the completion of the Human Genome Project was that only 1.5 percent of our ge ...MAR 26, 2016Clinical & Molecular DX
Mount Sinai Hospital recently became the first US health care center to use a specialized technology called M1 LUMI bead ...MAR 24, 2016Cancer
About 90% of cancer-related deaths are attributed to metastasis, events where cancer migrates from its original source o ...MAR 24, 2016Cancer
There’s a new gene player in breast cancer, and it’s called GT198. Already known to be mutated in early onse ...MAR 23, 2016Health & Medicine
Over one thousand DNA variations in the human genome are associated with both increased susceptibility to systemic lupus ...Written By: Kara MarkerMAR 23, 2016Cardiology
To reduce risk of heart attack, the benefits of a healthy lifestyle are clear. But genetics can still stack the deck. A ...Written By: Futurity (futurity.org)
MAY 10, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Since the development of the gene-editing tool CRISPR/Cas9, researchers have found many ways to both improve and vary th
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAY 07, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
For the first time, scientist demonstrate an effective way to deliver drugs to the placenta – a feat that’s
...
MAY 06, 2016
Cancer
Prostate cancer represents a huge health risk for half the world’s population, as it is the most common form of ca
...
MAY 04, 2016
Cancer
Scientists say they’re now closer than ever to personalized treatment for breast cancer after identifying a compre
...
MAY 03, 2016
Cancer
Designing effective new drugs, especially drugs to fight cancer, demands that you know as much as you can about the mole
...
Written By:
The Scripps Research Institute (TSRI)
MAY 02, 2016
Health & Medicine
It is the antibodies that detect pathogens in order to fight infections and prevent disease, but there is an entire team
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 29, 2016
Cancer
What do cancer researchers think is the most dangerous part of cancer? Metastasis. This is the ability of cancer to spre
...
APR 29, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Starving immune cells of key nutrients thwarts their ability to launch an allergic response, according to new resea
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 22, 2016
Health & Medicine
Macrophages exist in every type of body tissue, in the lungs as alveolar macrophages and in the liver as Kupffer cells.
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
APR 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Scientists have created a new and highly efficient method for gene transfer. The technique, which involves culturing and
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 22, 2016
Cell & Molecular Biology
Researchers have uncovered a new mechanism of bone erosion—and a possible biomarker—for rheumatoid arthritis
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)
APR 19, 2016
Cancer
Efficacy issues have always plagued cancer treatments. It’s estimated that as little as 0.001 and 0.01 percent of
...
APR 17, 2016
Cancer
Virtually every type of cancer has metastatic potential – that is, the tumor cells can leave its original site and
...
APR 07, 2016
Cancer
Lung cancer is the second most common form of cancer in both men and women. With such a high incidence rate and an equal
...
APR 07, 2016
Health & Medicine
How much medication should you be prescribed? Everyone is born with a different body, so how much and what kind of medic
...
Written By:
Julianne Chiaet
MAR 31, 2016
Health & Medicine
A painful inflammatory disease has been plaguing a Flemish family for more than three generations, and for the first tim
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 30, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
To help treat pancreatic cancer, scientists are taking a step back to diagnose the disease before it becomes lethal. In
...
MAR 28, 2016
Neuroscience
Anorexia nervosa is more than just a desire to lose weight and control eating. Individuals who suffer with this eating d
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
MAR 26, 2016
Cancer
One of the biggest surprise findings from the completion of the Human Genome Project was that only 1.5 percent of our ge
...
MAR 26, 2016
Clinical & Molecular DX
Mount Sinai Hospital recently became the first US health care center to use a specialized technology called M1 LUMI bead
...
MAR 24, 2016
Cancer
About 90% of cancer-related deaths are attributed to metastasis, events where cancer migrates from its original source o
...
MAR 24, 2016
Cancer
There’s a new gene player in breast cancer, and it’s called GT198. Already known to be mutated in early onse
...
MAR 23, 2016
Health & Medicine
Over one thousand DNA variations in the human genome are associated with both increased susceptibility to systemic lupus
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
MAR 23, 2016
Cardiology
To reduce risk of heart attack, the benefits of a healthy lifestyle are clear. But genetics can still stack the deck. A
...
Written By:
Futurity (futurity.org)