Younger women with ovarian cancer have better survival rates than older patients, even if they have surgery to conserve their fertility, added family history of the illness is the most important risk factor and it is influenced by hormones.
Results of a Portuguese study suggest that, contrary to expectations, obesity is not associated with an increased risk of asthma.
Inhibiting a particular cancer-causing gene can enhance the cell-killing effects of radiation, a team of radiation oncologists and cancer biologists has found. Using a combination of zebrafish and antisense technology, they’ve shown that the drug flavopiridol works by blocking the activity of a gene, cyclin D1, which is overexpressed in about half of all breast cancers. Similar techniques in the future, the scientists say, may enable researchers to better gauge the effects of drugs.
In new research, reported in the current online issue of the journal Social Neuroscience, researchers from the University of Georgia and San Diego State University report for the first time that social exclusion actually causes changes in a person’s brain function and can lead to poor decision-making and a diminished learning ability.
Scientists from King’s submitted a licence application yesterday (6 November) to the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority (HFEA) to allow them to fuse human cells with animal eggs. If granted, the licence will boost research into some of the most debilitating and untreatable neurological diseases.
New research by a team at the University of Warwick says that massage may help infants aged under six months sleep better, cry less and be less stressed.
Fifteen years ago this week, Magic Johnson’s announcement that he was HIV positive and was leaving pro basketball shocked a nation and immediately made the NBA star the public face of the dreaded disease.
Which works best in fighting the risk factors for diabetes ?exercise or diet? Exercise and diet work equally well in reducing the risk factors for diabetes, a new study finds.
Mayo Clinic Cancer Center’s Specialized Programs of Research Excellence (SPORE) grant from the National Cancer Institute (NCI) for prostate cancer research has been renewed for an additional five years. SPORE grants are highly competitive awards given to institutions on the cutting edge of translational research in specific types of cancer.
Virginia Commonwealth University researchers have developed a unique anti-sickling agent that may one day be effective in treating sickle cell disease, a painful and debilitating genetic blood disorder that affects approximately 80,000 Americans.