It is common knowledge that it’s better to catch cancer in an early state than later. The reason is that [MORE]
Kidney transplant patients can take up to 25 drugs, every day for the rest of their lives, to suppress [MORE]
Breath Tester
Dogs can be trained to detect the smell of lung cancer in a person’s breath—with 98% accuracy. With [MORE]
Microfluidic Device
In developing inkjet printers during the 1980’s scientists observed how differently fluids behave at the micro level than [MORE]
DNA Robot
DNA’s ability to fold tightly probably explains why it survived in the primordial soup that covered the Earth before [MORE]
Alexis Borisy (left) and Michael Pellini lead an effort to make DNA data available to help cancer patients.
With lower costs [MORE]
Visualizing cancer cells with "spray"
Cancer gets its name from the crab because of its resemblance to a mass with [MORE]
It is a flashlight of sorts, but a more accurate description is an endoscope that emits short bursts of [MORE]
Inside an implantable device about the size of a thumbnail, researchers at the Technical University of Munich have placed [MORE]
Epidemiologists have long suspected a link between infertility and ovarian cancer, and researchers at Rush University Medical Center may [MORE]
Researchers at Jefferson Medical College in Philadelphia have found that breast cancer cells secrete hydrogen peroxide, thereby creating oxidative stress [MORE]
Purple Cells – New Leukemia Treatment
This piece reports a gene therapy success against chronic lymphocytic leukemia for three patients [MORE]
Cells become cancerous when they loose their ability to undergo programmed cell death (known as “apoptosis”). Until recently, apoptosis [MORE]
Treating Cancer with Magnets
Fascination with magnets has launched thousands of claims for their health benefits-in treating pain, asthma, allergies, [MORE]