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Cancer begins in your cells, which are the building blocks of your body. Normally, your body forms new cells as you need them, replacing old cells that die. Sometimes this process goes wrong. New cells grow even when you don't need them, and old cells don't die when they should. These extra cells can form a mass called a tumor. Tumors can be benign or malignant. Benign tumors aren't cancer while malignant ones are. Cells from malignant tumors can invade nearby tissues. They can also break away and spread to other parts of the body.

Scientists Develop Tool To Sequence Circular DNA

Biologists have invented a new way of sequencing circular DNA. The tool will give other scientists rich, accurate data on circular DNA in any type of cell.

19 May 2020

Smokers More Likely To Express ACE2 Protein That SARS-COV-2 Uses

Researchers report that smoking increases the gene expression of ACE2, the protein that binds SARS-CoV-2, which may promote COVID-19 infection.

19 May 2020

Genome Study Links DNA Changes To The Risks Of Breast Cancer Subtypes

Genetic studies covering 266,000 women have revealed 32 new sites on the genome where variations in DNA appear to alter the risks of getting breast cancer.

19 May 2020

Direct Control Of Dendritic Cells For Tracking And Immune Modulation

Dendritic cells are one of our bodies' first line of defense and are stationed like sentinels at all surfaces, as well as in most of our organs.

19 May 2020

Climate Change Threatens Progress In Cancer Control

Climate change threatens prospects for further progress in cancer prevention and control, increasing exposure to cancer risk factors and access to cancer care.

19 May 2020

A New Tool To Map The Flow Of Info Within Living Cells

How do cells move? Why do they move? Why do some cancer cells move slowly while others move quickly, causing cancerous tumors to become more difficult to treat?

19 May 2020

The Global Hunt To Block COVID-19

A molecular biologist is working with a world leader in artificial intelligence-based drug discovery to help find a molecule that could prevent SARS-CoV-2.

19 May 2020

'Cells-Soldiers' Turned To Be More Resistant Than 'Cells-Combat Medics'

Researchers from Russia and the USA discovered that the resistance of immune cells, macrophages, to ferroptosis, depends on the type of their activation.

19 May 2020

Scientists study how brain cancer cells acquire radiation resistance

In a vertical climb to avoid collision with a towering mountain, a plane ejects cargo to gain altitude. Investigators at the University of Minnesota showed that cancer cells perform similar feats in escaping the killing effects of radiation.

18 May 2020

Novel method sheds light on genomes of bacteria and viruses

According to a new study, biologists from the University of Alberta have developed a unique method for sequencing circular DNA.

18 May 2020

Researchers Find New Breast Cancer Gene In Young People

Over the years, our knowledge of diseases has improved, and several hereditary gene variants have been found that may predispose to the development of cancer.

18 May 2020

Blood Cells Could Serve As A 'Thermometer' To Detect Breast Cancer

Immune system cells in the blood of breast cancer patients undergo alterations early in the disease course, according to a study.

18 May 2020

Genome-wide pattern found in glioblastoma tumors predicts patient survival

For the past 70 years, the best indicator of life expectancy for a patient with glioblastoma (GBM) -- the most common and the most aggressive brain cancer -- has simply been age at diagnosis.

15 May 2020

Study reveals nuanced role for oncogene in contact inhibition

Like subway com muters on a crowded train, cells generally prefer not to be packed in too tightly. In fact, they have set up mechanisms to avoid this, a phenomenon called "contact inhibition."

15 May 2020

Mouse model helps track organism’s development, cell by cell

Scientists at the Stem Cell Research program at Boston Children's Hospital and Dana-Farber Cancer Institute/Harvard Medical School have devised a mouse model that lets researchers track every cell in the body, from the embryonic stage until adulthood.

15 May 2020

Treating solid cancers using the formation of natural killer-tumor cell immunological synapse

There are immune cells in our bodies that directly destroy infected or cancer cells - they are called natural killer cells. Recently, a POSTECH research team has developed an integrative cancer therapy using adoptive natural killer cell therapy and chemotherapy.

14 May 2020

New weight loss amphetamine could avoid side effects of older treatments

Researchers developed a new weight loss amphetamine that could potentially avoid the side effects of older treatments.

14 May 2020

Coronavirus attacking microRNA numbers reduce with age

A group of tiny RNA that should attack the virus causing COVID-19 when it tries to infect the body are diminished with age and chronic health problems, a decrease that likely helps explain why older individuals and those with preexisting medical conditions are vulnerable populations, investigators report.

14 May 2020

Researchers identify missing component of innate immune signaling

How cells recognize pathogens and alert the immune system swiftly is a fundamental process of high importance for the survival of any species, including humans.

14 May 2020