Monash University researchers, in collaboration with Harvard University, have discovered how to permanently "switch off" cancer-causing genes, revealing a new approach to cancer treatment. The ...

Researchers have discovered new treatments to suppress the growth of cancers of the bowel and liver. Researchers at the Cancer Research UK Scotland Institute in Glasgow studied genes which can cause ...

Monash University researchers, in collaboration with Harvard University, have discovered how to permanently ‘switch off’ cancer causing genes, revealing a new approach to cancer treatment. The ...

A sperm donor with a rare genetic mutation linked to an increased risk of developing cancer fathered at least 197 children across Europe, some of whom have already died from the disease, according to ...

Not all cancers are written in your genes. A sweeping new report from the World Health Organization found that up to four in 10 cancer cases around the globe could be prevented with lifestyle changes.

London — Sperm from a donor who unknowingly carried a cancer-causing gene has been used to conceive nearly 200 babies across Europe, an investigation by 14 European public service broadcasters, ...

Jonathan Sessler, the chemistry professor at UT Austin who developed the potential chemotherapy drug Compound 1, poses for a photo in a lab. (Courtesy of the University of Texas at Austin) Researchers ...

Some viruses are known to increase the risk of cancer over time. This article highlights six major viruses and explains how ...

UC San Francisco Chancellor emeritus J. Michael Bishop, MD, a pioneering microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discovering that every cell in the body harbors ...

Although cancer is a common cause of death in domestic cats, little is known about the range of cancer genes in cat tumors, and how this range might compare with the oncogenome in people. Now, Bailey ...