Fathers may pass ovarian cancer risk to daughters
Scientists have identified a new gene for ovarian cancer risk that may be passed down from fathers to their daughters...
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PET patron wins prestigious award
Baroness Mary Warnock, patron of the Progress Educational Trust (PET), which publishes BioNews, is to be awarded a major international prize for her work in bioethics...
Blood test for eight common cancers offers promise
Scientists have developed a single blood test to detect eight common cancer types and their location of origin within the body...
Screening all women over 30 for BRCA could prevent 64,000 cancers
The blanket screening of all women over 30 for genetic mutations which cause breast and, or ovarian cancer could prevent more cancers and be more cost effective than current approaches, according to a new study...
Image by Peter Artymiuk via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts the shadow of a DNA double helix, on a background that shows the fluorescent banding of the output from a DNA sequencing machine.
BRCA gene does not affect survival in those treated for breast cancer
A new study has found that BRCA gene mutations do not affect the survival rates of breast cancer patients under 40...
BRCA screening could prevent 1000 cases of breast cancer a year
Researchers have introduced new criteria to screen for BRCA gene mutations that could prevent more than 10,000 cases of cancer and save more than 2000 lives in the next decade...
AI test could be first screening tool for ovarian cancer
Machine learning has been used to develop a promising screening test for ovarian cancer, a team of US-based researchers has said...
Researchers crack how BRCA1 gene raises cancer risk
A major breakthrough in understanding how mutations in the BRCA1 gene raise cancer risk has been made by researchers in the USA...
Liquid DNA biopsies could be used for cancer screening
US researchers have developed a new blood test to detect cancer-related DNA alterations before patients experience symptoms...
Image by Sílvia Ferreira, Cristina Lopo and Eileen Gentleman via the Wellcome Collection. Depicts a single human stem cell embedded within a porous hydrogel matrix (false colour).
Vitamin C slows leukaemia in mice by tweaking key gene
High doses of vitamin C may help fight certain leukaemias by boosting the activity of a particular gene, suggests a new study...