Cancer Research

Vitamin D Linked To Colon Cancer Survival

Patients diagnosed with colon cancer who had abundant vitamin D in their blood were less likely to die during a follow-up period than those who were deficient in the vitamin, according to a new study by scientists at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute. The findi ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 18 2008 - 10:15pm

Radiation May Be Good For You, Says Study

Radiation is dangerous. In high doses it is certainly lethal and chronic exposure is linked to the development of cancer. That's why we have bomb shelters and canned food. But what if a short-term controlled exposure to a low dose of radiation were go ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 20 2008 - 1:36pm

How Measles Spreads Inside The Body

Measles, one of the most common contagious diseases, has been thought to enter the body through the surface of airways and lungs, like many other major viruses. Now, Mayo Clinic researchers and their collaborators say that's not the case, and some med ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 22 2008 - 1:02pm

Your Genome Could Even Be Changing While You Read This

Researchers at Johns Hopkins say that epigenetic marks on DNA- chemical marks other than the DNA sequence- do indeed change over a person's lifetime, and that the degree of change is similar among family members. The team suggests that overall genome ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 24 2008 - 4:49pm

Getting Your DNA Sequenced: Should Regulators Crack Down On Genetic Testing Companies?

California and New York regulators have been in the news lately (such as here and here), with their attempts to crack down on the nascent direct-to-consumer genetic testing industry. These states argue that companies like 23andMe, Navigenics, and several o ...

Article - Michael White - Jun 26 2008 - 9:46am

Does Pregnancy Confer Protection Against Bladder Cancer?

It seems pregnancy may confer some protection against bladder cancer- in mice. Female mice that had never become pregnant had approximately 15 times as much cancer in their bladders as their counterparts that had become pregnant, according to new findings ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 25 2008 - 11:49pm

How Pheromones Work Gets A New Theory

Pheromones are molecules that an organism releases to trigger a specific behavior in other members of its species. Insects make wide use of pheromones to attract mates, signal the location of food, warn of attackers and provide other signals. ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2008 - 12:09pm

More Coffee, Less Liver Cancer

Liver cancer is the third most common global cause of cancer death and a new study may be good news for drinkers and growers. The large, prospective population-based study confirms an inverse relationship between coffee consumption and liver cancer risk. T ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 26 2008 - 11:27pm

Cancer Cured? Granulocytes Treatment Worked 100 Percent In Mice Work But Will It Work In Humans?

Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. The treatment will involve transfus ...

Article - News Staff - Jun 28 2008 - 3:08pm

Another Scientist Getting Silly About Religion

Here we go again, this time it is Stuart Kauffman’s turn to write silly things about science and religion.  Kauffman  is a serious and brilliant scientist, best known for his work on complexity theory and its application to evolutionary biology. But he ha ...

Article - Massimo Pigliucci - Jun 30 2008 - 9:37am