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Tumor development
Tumor development, or tumorigenesis, broadly describes the process by which normal cells gain malignant properties. Tumor development includes growth functions like cellular differentiation, proliferation, and metastasis.
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NOV 19, 2015Immunology
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) has a long history of evading both the immune system and scientists trying to study how it ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 19, 2015Videos
While the conventional wisdom is that drugs are bad for you, there is a growing amount of information that marijuana isn ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 13, 2015Immunology
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes normally found in the body that play a role in inducing cell death in abnormal ...Written By: Kara MarkerNOV 09, 2015Neuroscience
The expression “Why don’t you grow a brain” is tossed around sometimes like an insult, but as it turns ...Written By: Brenda Kelley KimNOV 02, 2015Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that ...Written By: Kara MarkerOCT 12, 2015Cancer
According to research published this month in Scientific Reports, specific types of migraines may be associated with the ...Written By: Sarah HertrichOCT 08, 2015Plants & Animals
Nuclear power plants are incredibly good at what they do, but when things go wrong, the results are disastrous. That&rsq ...Written By: Anthony BouchardSEP 29, 2015Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have developed a molecular “on switch” enabling tight control over the acti ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 28, 2015Cancer
Scientists from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) have discovered that combining antidepressants with ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 22, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Duke University scientists have figured out the genetic code that instructs proteins to either self-assemble or disassem ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 21, 2015Cancer
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a critical role played by an enzyme in cancer and autoimmun ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 20, 2015Cancer
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer helps many men to live longer. The therapy can reduce or block the production of and ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 18, 2015Cancer
Cells can adapt to overcome cancer drugs designed to interfere with their genetic controls, according to a study by Canc ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 17, 2015Neuroscience
Contrary to previous thinking, Alzheimer’s disease consists of three distinct subtypes, according to a UCLA study. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 17, 2015Cancer
Is there a connection between being overweight and developing a certain kind of brain tumor? Is there yet another reason ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 16, 2015Cancer
Pancreatic cancer stem cells (PancSCs) are virtually addicted to oxygen-based metabolism, and could be “suffocated ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 13, 2015Cancer
Three researchers won prestigious medical awards for a new approach to treating cancer and insights into how creatures d ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 10, 2015Cancer
A drug-like molecule could prove valuable in cancer research with the potential of developing a new pharmaceutical. ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderSEP 06, 2015Cancer
Immunotherapy is powerful, and British researchers have found a way to make it even more so. By giving cancer patients a ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 30, 2015Cancer
While mathematical models are powerful tools for demonstrating how cancer grows and spreads, they have an either/or prob ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 29, 2015Cancer
Viruses can be involved in the development of serious diseases. A case in point is liver cancer, which often develops in ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 29, 2015Cancer
The adage “you are what you eat” just got a little better, especially for those who like purple potatoes. Co ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 28, 2015Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 25, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Carnegie Mellon University physicists Mathias Lösche and Frank Heinrich have led an international group of research ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
NOV 19, 2015
Immunology
Small cell lung cancer (SCLC) has a long history of evading both the immune system and scientists trying to study how it
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 19, 2015
Videos
While the conventional wisdom is that drugs are bad for you, there is a growing amount of information that marijuana isn
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 13, 2015
Immunology
Natural killer (NK) cells are lymphocytes normally found in the body that play a role in inducing cell death in abnormal
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
NOV 09, 2015
Neuroscience
The expression “Why don’t you grow a brain” is tossed around sometimes like an insult, but as it turns
...
Written By:
Brenda Kelley Kim
NOV 02, 2015
Immunology
B-cell leukemia occurs in 80-85 percent of children with acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL), a fast-growing cancer that
...
Written By:
Kara Marker
OCT 12, 2015
Cancer
According to research published this month in Scientific Reports, specific types of migraines may be associated with the
...
Written By:
Sarah Hertrich
OCT 08, 2015
Plants & Animals
Nuclear power plants are incredibly good at what they do, but when things go wrong, the results are disastrous. That&rsq
...
Written By:
Anthony Bouchard
SEP 29, 2015
Cancer
UC San Francisco scientists have developed a molecular “on switch” enabling tight control over the acti
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 28, 2015
Cancer
Scientists from the Ecole Polytechnique Federale De Lausanne (EPFL) have discovered that combining antidepressants with
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 22, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Duke University scientists have figured out the genetic code that instructs proteins to either self-assemble or disassem
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 21, 2015
Cancer
Scientists at The Scripps Research Institute have discovered a critical role played by an enzyme in cancer and autoimmun
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 20, 2015
Cancer
Hormone therapy for prostate cancer helps many men to live longer. The therapy can reduce or block the production of and
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 18, 2015
Cancer
Cells can adapt to overcome cancer drugs designed to interfere with their genetic controls, according to a study by Canc
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 17, 2015
Neuroscience
Contrary to previous thinking, Alzheimer’s disease consists of three distinct subtypes, according to a UCLA study.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 17, 2015
Cancer
Is there a connection between being overweight and developing a certain kind of brain tumor? Is there yet another reason
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 16, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer stem cells (PancSCs) are virtually addicted to oxygen-based metabolism, and could be “suffocated
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 13, 2015
Cancer
Three researchers won prestigious medical awards for a new approach to treating cancer and insights into how creatures d
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 10, 2015
Cancer
A drug-like molecule could prove valuable in cancer research with the potential of developing a new pharmaceutical.
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
SEP 06, 2015
Cancer
Immunotherapy is powerful, and British researchers have found a way to make it even more so. By giving cancer patients a
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 30, 2015
Cancer
While mathematical models are powerful tools for demonstrating how cancer grows and spreads, they have an either/or prob
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 29, 2015
Cancer
Viruses can be involved in the development of serious diseases. A case in point is liver cancer, which often develops in
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 29, 2015
Cancer
The adage “you are what you eat” just got a little better, especially for those who like purple potatoes. Co
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 28, 2015
Cancer
Pancreatic cancer, the fourth deadliest cancer in the U.S., is very hard to detect in its early stages. Rarely diagnosed
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 25, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Carnegie Mellon University physicists Mathias Lösche and Frank Heinrich have led an international group of research
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider