First human CRISPR trial passes safety and ethics review
Last week, a proposal representing the first use of CRISPR (Clustered Regularly Interspaced Short Palindromic Repeats) in humans passed a…
Medicos find more evidence of baldness and prostate cancer link
A new study, published in the Journal of Clinical Oncology, lends weight to the notion that male pattern baldness and…
Compelling new evidence for artificial lighting’s role in breast cancer
Scientists have found that for laboratory rats with human breast tumors, exposure to dim light at night made the tumors…
UV light can be addictive, say scientists
Why do people still spend extended periods in the sun when the dangers of skin cancer are so well recognized?…
New evidence for link between alcohol consumption and cancer metastasis
New research looking at the biological processes involved in breast cancer development has strengthened the argument for a potential link…
Revealing cancer’s deep evolutionary roots
A new way to look at cancer – by tracing its evolutionary roots to the dawn of multicellular life more…
Quadruple helix DNA discovered in human cells
Cambridge University researchers have published a paper in Nature Chemistry showing that four-stranded “quadruple helix” DNA structures exist within the…
Cholesterol’s cancer fighting properties revealed
In an intriguing new study published in theJournal of Biological Chemistry, scientists investigating cholesterol’s binding properties within cells say that…
Analysis shows circumcision link to prostate cancer
Observational data from a new study published in the journal Cancer reveal that men who had been circumcised before their…
Are cancers newly evolved species?
UC Berkeley molecular biologists propose that carcinogenesis – the generation of cancer – is just another form of speciation, the…
Magic mushrooms a hit with cancer patients
Psilocybin, an hallucinogen found in magic mushrooms, can effectively and safely improve the moods of patients with advanced-stage cancer who…
Bright light at night carcinogenic
A new study from the University of Haifa confirms the theory that bright artificial lighting at night disrupts the body’s…
Antioxidant supplements found to induce genetic abnormalities
A chance discovery by Cedars-Sinai researchers has shown that high doses of antioxidant nutritional supplements can increase genetic abnormalities in…
Mole rat’s cancer-proofing gene revealed
Despite a three decade lifespan that should provide ample time for cells to grow cancerous, naked mole rats have never…
PSA test blamed for massive overdiagnosis of prostate cancer
Introduced in 1987, prostate-antigen screening (PSA) has resulted in over 1 million additional men being diagnosed and treated for prostate…
Melanoma Not Without Benefits
Though skin cancer is deadly to male swordtail fish, it also has one perk: black melanoma splotches help lure females,…
Magnolia Compound Targets Cancer Switch
Emory University School of Medicine researchers say that a natural compound from magnolia blocks a pathway for cancer growth that…
Cancer Eradicating Treatment Goes To Human Trials
Scientists from the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether…
“Safer” Cigarettes Back On The Agenda
Everyone knows that smoking can kill, but until now no one really understood how cigarette smoke causes healthy lung cells…
New Cell-Phone Cancer Link
An Tel Aviv University study has found that heavy cell phone users are subject to a higher risk of benign…
Cancer Triggered By Viral Selection?
New research suggests that viruses may contribute to cancer by causing excessive death to normal cells while promoting the growth…
Fat And Vitamin C – A Cancerous Combo
In the presence of fat, vitamin C may actually increase, rather than reduce, certain cancer causing chemicals, says a new…
Train Drivers On Express Track To Leukemia
A Swiss study has linked extremely low frequency electromagnetic fields to certain cancers, a finding that may reignite the debate…
Rogue Stem Cell Study Yields Anti-Cancer Protein
Evidence is mounting that rogue stem cells brandishing epigenetic marks (changes in gene regulation that occur without a change in…
Viagra Touted As Anti-Cancer Drug
The phenomenal success of the erectile dysfunction drug Viagra (sildenafil) has not been without hiccups. There have been ongoing questions…
Scientists Explore Manipulation Of Cancer Evolution
The dynamics of evolution are as evident in cancerous tumors as in any other ecosystem and oncologists hope that with…
This Cancer Cell Will Self-Destruct In 5 Seconds
A synthetic compound that can initiate suicide in cancer cells could become the future of anti-cancer therapies, say researchers in…
Cannibalism The New Weapon In Cancer Fight
The University of Texas M. D. Anderson Cancer Center reported this week in The Journal of the National Cancer Institute…
Dogs Sniff Out Cancer
Cancer detection in the kennel? It just might be the best way to identify cancer if results from a recent…
Human Guinea Pig Success For Omega 3 Cancer Treatment
The current issue of the journal Nutrition and Cancercontains an interesting case study of a lung cancer patient whose cancer…