Cancer

  1. Health & Medicine

    Isaac Kinde: Finding cancer via altered genes

    Isaac Kinde helped create a technology that can spot cancers early to give patients a better chance at survival.

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  2. Health & Medicine

    Coffee reveals itself as an unlikely elixir

    Coffee is earning a reputation as a health tonic, reducing risk for a long list of ailments and even lowering death rates.

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  3. Health & Medicine

    Blood test can predict breast cancer relapse

    Blood tests for breast cancer DNA can predict relapse.

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  4. Health & Medicine

    Recent advances may improve Jimmy Carter’s chances against melanoma

    Improvements in melanoma treatment over the last five years may aid former President Jimmy Carter’s battle against the disease.

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  5. Health & Medicine

    Stiff cellular environment links obesity to breast cancer

    Obesity may directly support tumor growth by making a cell’s surroundings stiffer.

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  6. Health & Medicine

    Resveratrol’s anticancer benefits show up in low doses

    Small amounts of the compound found in red wine and grapes prove protective against colon cancer in mice fed a high-fat diet.

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  7. Health & Medicine

    E-cigarette reports provide science that society craves

    Research on vaping fills a crucial need in science’s service to society: providing the best information possible in a timely manner, so people can make wise choices.

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  8. Health & Medicine

    New cancer drugs wake up sleeping killer T cells

    The immune system’s T cells, often evaded by tumors, might now resume the attack.

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  9. Health & Medicine

    Spit test could provide early warning of head, neck cancers

    A new study shows that signs of head and neck cancer can be detected in saliva and blood plasma even before tumors are clinically diagnosed.

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  10. Genetics

    Mutations that drive cancer lurk in healthy skin

    Healthy tissue carries mutations that drive cancer, samples of normal skin cells show.

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  11. Genetics

    Molecular scissors snip at cancer’s Achilles’ heel

    Finding cancer’s vulnerable spots using CRISPR technology could lead to drugs that hit the disease hard.

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  12. Health & Medicine

    Same mutations can show up in tumors, healthy tissues

    Analyzing samples of healthy and tumor tissues could pinpoint which mutations are driving cancer and help develop better-targeted treatments.

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