Posts Tagged ‘Genetics’

One of the most remarkable scientific breakthroughs since the mapping of the human genome has been CRISPR, an acronym that […]

Scientists from the Sanger Institute in Cambridge, UK and their international collaborators have just published a paper in Cancer Cell entitled “Genomic evolution of […]

Over the past four years we have written about using blood samples for the early detection of breast cancer, including: studies […]

This past Saturday, 22 April 2017, hundreds of thousands of people participated in over 600 gatherings as part of the […]

Today’s edition of Science includes a special section on cancer therapy with the revealing subtitle, “Stocking oncology’s medicine cabinet.” As the introductory editorial explains, […]

Last Saturday, 4 February 2017, was World Cancer Day and the WHO provided new guidelines, with a focus on diagnosing and treating the […]

In January 2016 President Barack Obama (seen below left, © Reuters) announced an initiative – known as the Cancer Moonshot – that […]

Two chemists from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Kevin Naidoo and Jahansha Ashkani (seen right, © Mail & Guardian), have just published a […]

In December 1946 the American scientist Hermann Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine “for the discovery of the production of […]

Yesterday, 4 February 2016, was World Cancer Day. It took place under the tagline “We can. I can.” and explored how […]