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Posts Tagged ‘Genetics’
Closer to the Holy Grail
Seven years ago, we reviewed the progress in developing a blood test for the early detection of breast cancer. Thought to be […]
Our Dunkirk Moment
The Battle of Dunkirk, fought between 26 May and 4 June 1940, marked a turning point in World War Two. During […]
Me and You
Earlier this week, on 4 February, it was World Cancer Day and Sky News in the UK interviewed 15-year-old Jack Browett. He described an […]
A Tutorial on Cancer
The National Institutes of Health (NIH), located just outside Washington, DC, in the leafy suburb of Bethesda, MD, is home to 27 […]
Radiomics in Breast Cancer
Most people will have heard of genomics – the study of a person’s genes – or proteomics – the study of proteins – but […]
The Emergence of CRISPR
One of the most remarkable scientific breakthroughs since the mapping of the human genome has been CRISPR, an acronym that […]
Late Spread Supports Early Diagnosis
Scientists from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and their international collaborators have just published a paper in Cancer Cell entitled “Genomic evolution of […]
Blood vs Breath vs Tears
Over the past four years we have written about using blood samples for the early detection of breast cancer, including: studies […]
March for Science
This past Saturday, 22 April 2017, hundreds of thousands of people participated in over 600 gatherings as part of the […]