10-05-18 The world's biggest investigation on possible links between cell phone use and brain tumours is inconclusive(非决定性的,无结果的) , according to a Canadian scientist who collaborated on the Interphone International Study Group. Jack Siemiatycki,...
10-05-16 The first clinical trials have started on a new investigational drug, discovered by researchers at Cardiff University, which is being developed to treat infections(传染病) caused by Hepatitis C(丙型肝炎) virus. Approximately(大约,近似) 170 mi...
10-05-14 It is well established that exposure to ionizing radiation(电离辐射) can result in mutations or other genetic damage that cause cells to turn cancerous. Now a new study led by researchers with the U.S. Department of Energy's Lawrence Berkeley Nati...
10-05-05 Scientists at the University of Kentucky Markey Cancer Center have identified a key molecular mechanism in breast cancer that enables tumor cells to spread to adjacent(临近的,毗邻的) or distant parts of the body in a process called metastasis(转...
10-05-03 Researchers from the University of Leeds, UK, the Charit University Medical School and the Max Delbrck Centre for Molecular Medicine (MDC) in Berlin, Germany, have discovered a new driving force behind cancer growth. Their studies have identified ho...
10-05-03 A research team led by Mayo Clinic physicians has found that older women with diabetes(糖尿病) face a more than doubled risk for some types of colorectal cancer(结肠直肠癌) . The findings are being presented at Digestive Disease Week 2010, the a...
10-04-27 Levels of a key type of immune cell are higher in head and neck cancer patients whose tumors are linked to the human papillomavirus(乳头瘤病毒) , or HPV, according to researchers at the University of Michigan Comprehensive Cancer Center. The findi...
10-04-22 The discovery 15 years ago that the genes BRCA1 and BRCA2 confer(授予,给予) high risks for breast and ovarian(卵巢的,子房的) cancer was a breakthrough for cancer prediction and therapy, especially for familial cases. Now the research group of...
10-04-12 Scientists have shown in multiple contexts that DNA damage over our lifetimes is a key mechanism behind the development of cancer and other age-related diseases. Not everyone gets these diseases, because the body has multiple mechanisms for repairin...
10-04-12 Using a sensor that weighs cells with unprecedented(空前的) precision, MIT and Harvard researchers have measured the rate at which single cells accumulate(积攒,累积) mass a feat(功绩,壮举) that could shed light on how cells control their gro...