As targeted therapies become more available, increasing opportunity exists to match treatments to the genetics of a specific cancer - but oncologists have to know these genetics in order to make the match, which requires molecular testing of patient samples.

As government increasingly takes control of health care, the standard for such non-essential  tests is going to be set far higher for poor people but there were still be more of them, so oncologists are going to have to make sure that patients' samples are properly tested, helping to pair patients with the best possible treatments. 

Everything you do changes your brain, even reading this sentence. A psychologist from the University of Hertfordshire believes that clothing impacts the way we think and literally changes our brains.

We know some of this to be true; everyone has a favorite outfit they look good in and that makes them feel more confident.  Professor Pine's data consists of things like asking psycology students to put on a Superman t-shirt. They declared it made them have better impressions of themselves and that they felt physically stronger. To most people, that says psychology undergraduates are as mentally developed as four-year-olds but to Pine it became a book, Mind What You Wear: The Psychology of Fashion.

In Mexico, 21.7 percent of the population smokes. By now, smoking has been implicated in every possible condition - lung cancer, obviously, but then crazy claims like that third-hand smoke could lead to epigenetic changes that make your grandchildren obese.

New Haven, Conn. — A multi-center phase I study using an investigational drug for advanced bladder cancer patients who did not respond to other treatments has shown promising results in patients with certain tumor types, researchers report. Yale Cancer Center played a key role in the study, the results of which will be presented Saturday, May 31 at the 2014 annual conference of the American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO) in Chicago.

Structural biologists have made important progress towards better understanding the functioning of the circadian clock. The circadian or inner clock coordinates the sleep-wake rhythm and many other body processes that regulate, for example, metabolism, blood pressure, and the immune system. A research team led by Professor Eva Wolf, recently appointed Professor of Structural Biology at the Institute of General Botany of Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz (JGU) and Adjunct Director at the Institute of Molecular Biology (IMB), has for the first time identified the molecular structure of a protein complex that plays an important role in regulating the circadian rhythm.

The clinical promise of stem cells has been dampened by concerns that the immune system will reject the transplanted cells before they could render any long-term benefit.

Previous research in mice has suggested that even adult stem cells produced from a subject's own tissue, induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, can trigger an immune attack.

Now researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have found that differentiating iPS cells in the laboratory to become more-specialized progeny cells before transplantation into mice allows them to be tolerated by the body's immune system.