Most people will have heard of genomics – the study of a person’s genes – or proteomics – the study of proteins – but […]
Posts Tagged ‘Genetics’
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 […]
Frontiers in Cancer Therapy
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, […]
Cancer Cure in 5 to 10 Years
Last Saturday, 4 February 2017, was World Cancer Day and the WHO provided new guidelines, with a focus on diagnosing and treating the […]
Cancer Moonshot Gathers Momentum
In January 2016 President Barack Obama (seen below left, © Reuters) announced an initiative – known as the Cancer Moonshot – that […]
Big Data Comes to the Cape
Two chemists from the University of Cape Town (UCT), Kevin Naidoo and Jahansha Ashkani (seen right, © Mail & Guardian), have just published a […]
An Illegitimate Dose Model?
In December 1946 the American scientist Hermann Muller was awarded the Nobel Prize in Medicine “for the discovery of the production of […]