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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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AUG 25, 2015Cancer
“Second cancers are on the rise,” according to an article by Marilynn Marchione, AP medical writer, that app ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 21, 2015Cancer
The University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have been “checking what’s in the bank – the Brisbane Br ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 20, 2015Cancer
There is a new way to look at cancer treatment and a new way to conduct clinical trials for it. Researchers from Memoria ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 20, 2015Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 17, 2015Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 17, 2015Microbiology
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen responsible for crown gall disease. I know what you’re thinkin ...Written By: Kerry EvansAUG 13, 2015Cancer
Deep in the soil of Ghana are compounds that could help scientists to understand a group of naturally-occurring chemical ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 12, 2015Cancer
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a drug candidate that overstimulates proteins critical to tumor ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 10, 2015Genetics & Genomics
Many adults have moles, benign tumors on the skin. A mutation in the BRAF gene makes them grow and become cancerous.Now ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 06, 2015Cancer
How do tumors grow, and how can they be stopped? A collaborative study between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 03, 2015Cancer
Why does melanoma, which accounts for 2 percent of skin cancer cases, cause almost all skin cancer deaths? Why have mela ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderAUG 03, 2015Cancer
Researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, have shown that a combination of three proteins ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 30, 2015Cancer
The most common type of lung cancer, which is also the most common cause of cancer deaths, is resistant to a cytokine ca ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 27, 2015Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 24, 2015Cancer
By discovering how micro-RNAs, small regulatory molecules in cells, render prostate cancer resistant to radiotherapy, re ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 22, 2015Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 20, 2015Cancer
Supported by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at a new University of Pe ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 13, 2015Cancer
How important is screening for colon cancer? It's very important, according to a study in the July issue of GIE: Gastroi ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 09, 2015Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUL 06, 2015Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 30, 2015Cancer
Two oncologists and a research scientist at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, are working on a blood test fo ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 19, 2015Cancer
An automated droplet-based surface sampling probe can help a surgeon to determine whether a patient's tissue is cancerou ...Written By: Ilene SchneiderJUN 14, 2015Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie ...Written By: Ilene Schneider
AUG 25, 2015
Cancer
“Second cancers are on the rise,” according to an article by Marilynn Marchione, AP medical writer, that app
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 21, 2015
Cancer
The University of Queensland (UQ) researchers have been “checking what’s in the bank – the Brisbane Br
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
There is a new way to look at cancer treatment and a new way to conduct clinical trials for it. Researchers from Memoria
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 20, 2015
Cancer
The culprits in a rare immune cell cancer called cutaneous T-cell lymphoma may be a group of mutations in 15 genes for p
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 17, 2015
Cancer
There is good news for children with neuroblastoma, the second most common solid-tumor childhood cancer. Donald L. Durde
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 17, 2015
Microbiology
Agrobacterium tumefaciens is a plant pathogen responsible for crown gall disease. I know what you’re thinkin
...
Written By:
Kerry Evans
AUG 13, 2015
Cancer
Deep in the soil of Ghana are compounds that could help scientists to understand a group of naturally-occurring chemical
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 12, 2015
Cancer
Researchers at Baylor College of Medicine have developed a drug candidate that overstimulates proteins critical to tumor
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 10, 2015
Genetics & Genomics
Many adults have moles, benign tumors on the skin. A mutation in the BRAF gene makes them grow and become cancerous.Now
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 06, 2015
Cancer
How do tumors grow, and how can they be stopped? A collaborative study between Sanford Burnham Prebys Medical Discovery
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 03, 2015
Cancer
Why does melanoma, which accounts for 2 percent of skin cancer cases, cause almost all skin cancer deaths? Why have mela
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
AUG 03, 2015
Cancer
Researchers at Barts Cancer Institute, Queen Mary University of London, have shown that a combination of three proteins
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 30, 2015
Cancer
The most common type of lung cancer, which is also the most common cause of cancer deaths, is resistant to a cytokine ca
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 27, 2015
Cancer
While most scientists have viewed genetic aberrations as the primary cause of almost all cancer, a new study of ovarian
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 24, 2015
Cancer
By discovering how micro-RNAs, small regulatory molecules in cells, render prostate cancer resistant to radiotherapy, re
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Cancer
Ovarian cancer strikes terror in women, because symptoms may not be apparent until it is too late for appropriate treatm
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 22, 2015
Neuroscience
Treating an aggressive brain tumor may have come one step closer to reality recently as a company developing a novel the
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 20, 2015
Cancer
Supported by a five-year, $10 million grant from the National Institutes of Health, scientists at a new University of Pe
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 13, 2015
Cancer
How important is screening for colon cancer? It's very important, according to a study in the July issue of GIE: Gastroi
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 09, 2015
Cancer
Powerful diseases require powerful drugs or powerful doses of drugs, often with severe side effects. An optical control
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUL 06, 2015
Cancer
While the BRCA2 gene is supposed to suppress tumors, its mutated form puts people at high risk for breast, ovarian and o
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 30, 2015
Cancer
Two oncologists and a research scientist at the Valley Hospital in Ridgewood, New Jersey, are working on a blood test fo
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 19, 2015
Cancer
An automated droplet-based surface sampling probe can help a surgeon to determine whether a patient's tissue is cancerou
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider
JUN 14, 2015
Cancer
Oligodendroglioma, which can be an especially aggressive form of brain cancer, may be caused by a genetic mutation. Scie
...
Written By:
Ilene Schneider