A new study, published in Science, describes a multi-gene synthetic circuit that can distinguish between cancer and non-cancer cells, after which it can target the cancer cells for destruction.…

As health care costs continue to rise and more people want more services for less money, it will be important that doctors engage in evidence-based medicine.  The Centers for Disease Control and…

Usually when you think of drugs, you think of mules, but camels have also unique properties, except those can be used in future drug development. Members of the camelid family have particular heavy-…

A new cancer therapy has been recently described in the New England Journal of Medicine, and Science Translational Medicine. The therapy is based on the idea that T cells, the frontline fighters of…

Cancer is one of the scourges of modern society. An increasing number of people are fighting it, and a lot of research is being done in order to understand it better, hopefully leading to treatments…

I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be an older man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be an older man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I had cancer. And stem cells might be to blame! At the relatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be anolder man’s disease: prostate cancer. How could this…

I confess. I hadcancer. And stemcells might be to blame! At therelatively young age of 42, I was diagnosed with what is supposed to be anolder man’s disease: prostate cancer. How couldthis…

A new finding may mean that nearly all leukemia and lymphoma patients in need of a transplant can find donors. Results of two clinical trials show transplant results with half-matched bone marrow or…