Radon, a naturally occurring radioactive gas produced when metals like uranium or radium break down in rocks and soil, is a known cause of lung cancer. Now, new research has found exposure to high levels of this indoor air ...
Jan 3, 2024
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Antiviral drugs are generally considered to be a 20th century invention. But recent research has uncovered an unexpected facet to your immune system: It can synthesize its own antiviral molecules in response to viral infections.
Oct 11, 2023
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Some brain cancers are easier to treat than others. Many solid tumors can be carefully excised by a skilled neurosurgeon, but others, such as diffuse midline gliomas, or DMGs, are much trickier. Children who have been diagnosed ...
Apr 14, 2022
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If the pandemic had happened ten years ago, what would it have looked like? Doubtless there would have been many differences, but probably the most striking would have been the relative lack of genomic sequencing. This is ...
Jan 3, 2022
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Treatments have been hard to pinpoint for a rare neurological disease called Charcot-Marie-Tooth (CMT), in part because so many variations of the condition exist. So far, mutations on more than 90 genes have been positively ...
Oct 1, 2019
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U.S. health officials on Tuesday approved the nation's first gene therapy for an inherited disease, a treatment that improves the sight of patients with a rare form of blindness. It marks another major advance for the emerging ...
Dec 19, 2017
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A new therapy involving stem cells may offer a better quality of life for patients with Hurler syndrome, a rare genetic disease that can cause crippling physical conditions and lead to early death.
Nov 16, 2017
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Coronary artery disease (CAD) is a leading cause of death worldwide. Despite dozens of regions in the genome associated with CAD, most of the genetic components of heart disease are not fully understood, suggesting that more ...
May 22, 2017
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Cancer researchers must use one of the world's fastest computers to detect which versions of genes are only found in cancer cells. Every form of cancer, even every tumour, has its own distinct variants.
Feb 2, 2015
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Queensland researchers have found that sudden "chromosomal catastrophes" may trigger a third of oesophageal tumours, the fastest rising cancer in Australia.
Oct 31, 2014
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