UC San Francisco Chancellor emeritus J. Michael Bishop, MD, a pioneering microbiologist who shared the 1989 Nobel Prize in ...

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, ...

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 ...

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 ...

Nearly 200 children have been conceived by sperm from a donor carrying a gene that dramatically increases the risk of developing cancer, according to a report. A major investigation released by the ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists have identified a small RNA molecule called miR-182 that can suppress cancer-causing genes in mice with glioblastoma mulitforme (GBM), a deadly and incurable type of ...

In a novel use of the CRISPR/Cas9 system, which can be deployed to switch genes off, researchers from Germany, the UK and Spain have developed a multiplexed screening approach to study and model ...

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.

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 ...

Growing old isn’t always fun, but research suggests it may ward off cancer. In A Nutshell While cancer risk climbs through most of life, it actually levels off and can decline in people over 85, a ...

Evidence shows that birth control pills containing the hormones estrogen and progestin can increase the risk of different types of cancers and decrease the risk of others.  Since 1999, the World ...