Bacteria that thrive in oxygen starved environments have been used successfully to target cancer tumors, delivering gene therapy based anti-cancer treatments, according to scientists. For about half…

It's unclear if vitamin C supplements reduce cancer risk. They may actually increase it. Fat in the stomach may cause vitamin C to promote, rather than prevent, the formation of certain cancer…

Scientists have found monoclonal antibodies which may make a successful Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) vaccine a reality. Hepatitis treatment is expensive and only successful in half of patients. Untreated…

Nutrients taken from avocados are able to thwart oral cancer cells, killing some and preventing pre-cancerous cells from developing into actual cancers, according to researchers at Ohio State…

Using a new “genome-scanning” method, a team of scientists has identified the first robust link between genes and stature in humans. A single letter change in a gene called HMGA2 enables people who…

How do adult stem cells protect themselves from accumulating genetic mutations that can lead to cancer? For more than three decades, many scientists have argued that the "immortal strand hypothesis…

Combining radiation therapy with a drug that helps destroy blood vessels nourishing malignant tumors has been shown in mice to be significantly more effective in treating lung cancer than either…

Studying the DNA of 889 people, gene hunters at the Mayo Clinic and H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Centers have identified a region on chromosome 5p that is significantly associated with dense breast tissue,…

Expect to see a lot of headlines like "Get drunk, stay cancer free" from science sites that shoot for headlines rather than fact after a university study showed a compound in red wine may help reduce…

Only about a fifth of the genes in a cell are switched on at any given time but environmental changes such as smoking lead to changes in that genetic activity. According to a Canadian team led by…