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As so many genome studies do, a new study began with a single patient and his parents who were in search of a diagnosis.

Research institutes, regulators and the pharmaceutical industry are urged to cooperate to develop new approaches to testing cancer drugs, in order to bring the revolution in personalised medicine to patients across Europ...

New results from a trial of an antibody that helps the immune system to recognise and attack cancer cells have shown particularly encouraging responses in patients who are smokers or former smokers.

Prostate cancer screening using the prostate-specific antigen (PSA) test is widely used in France despite a lack of evidence showing that it reduces cancer deaths. Now, researchers have shown that men experience more har...

Many large European countries may be facing a future shortage of medical oncologists without realizing it - a situation that could have dire consequences for cancer patients.

For many years, patients with advanced thyroid cancer faced bleak prospects and no viable treatment options. But now, building on recent discoveries about the genetics and cell signaling pathways of thyroid tumors, resea...

Highlighting an important but unexplored area of evolution, scientists have found evidence that, over hundreds of millions of years, an essential protein has evolved chiefly by changing how it moves, rather than by chang...

It isn't dangerous - but the plastic black hole is helping to demystify one of nature's weirdest objects and might have applications for energy-harvesting devices     

(The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST)) In the paper (entitled "Microbial Production of Short-chain Alkanes") published online in Nature on Sept. 29, a Korean research team led by Distinguished P...

(Seismological Society of America) A tiny chip used in smart phones to adjust the orientation of the screen could serve to create a real-time urban seismic network, easily increasing the amount of strong motion data coll...

(University of Utah) One problem in developing more efficient organic LED light bulbs and displays for TVs and phones is that much of the light is polarized in one direction and thus trapped within the light-emitting dio...