Genetic analysis shows progression of moles to melanoma
Researchers in the USA have mapped the sequence of genetic changes from early skin lesions, such as common moles, to malignant skin cancer...
A group of diseases that start when the signals that control how much and how often cells divide stop working properly. This causes cells to grow and multiply too much, and eventually to invade other tissues.
Researchers in the USA have mapped the sequence of genetic changes from early skin lesions, such as common moles, to malignant skin cancer...
by Paul Waldron
Over 100 million genetic changes have been found in a single tumour, according to a new study...
An experimental cell-based treatment using gene editing, previously only tested on mice, has successfully reversed advanced leukaemia in a one-year-old girl...
In recent years a range of treatments aimed at suppressing uterine natural killer activity have sprung up, but this has no scientific rationale and can have significant and dangerous side effects...
by Ayala Ochert
Scientists say it may be possible to track the progress of cancer — and cancer treatment — in real time from fragments of tumour DNA that are shed into the bloodstream...
by Arit Udoh
The US Food and Drug Administration has approved a drug derived from a genetically modified herpes virus for the treatment of melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery...
Women who have used assisted reproductive technologies are over a third more likely to develop ovarian cancer than other women, a large-scale study finds...
'The future of humanity is at stake tonight,' said one of the panel members prior to the Royal Institution's debate on the future of synthetic biology. There's probably some truth to that...
A stem-cell therapy in mice shows promise for reversing infertility in women who have received cancer treatment...
Genetic testing company 23andMe is relaunching its direct-to-consumer genetic tests in the USA, after receiving approval from the US Food and Drug Administration...
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