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Cancer - detection, diagnosis

Cancer - detection, diagnosis

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

Synthetic biology, and Cancer research

Cancer research - mRNA, CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation

Cancer research - mRNA, CRISPR, gene editing and DNA manipulation

Cancer, Health and Dieting

a collection of articles about Cancer, Health and Dieting

Skin, Sun and Cancer

A collection of articles about Skin, Sun and Cancer

Juul, e-cigarettes, vaping and regulations

a collection of articles about Juul, e-cigarettes, vaping and regulations

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Cancer: Tumour cells steal energy-generating parts from nearby immune cells | New Scientist

Cancer cells use tiny tubes to reach out to nearby immune cells and capture their energy-generating mitochondria (2021)


Article

HPV vaccine reduced cervical cancer rates by 87% in women, study finds - CNN

The first generation HPV vaccine cut cervical cancer rates among women by 87%, British researchers reported. (2021)


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The “Google of genomics” meets the techbashers of antitrust | The Economist

Has Illumina found the holy GRAIL? | Business (2021)


Article

Is the world making progress against cancer? - Our World in Data

Adjusted for both population growth and aging, mortality from cancer is falling globally. (2021)


Article

A possible new cancer treatment? Robots that attack tumors - Los Angeles Times

Chemotherapy and radiation can cause too much collateral damage to treat some brain tumors. Crumb-sized robots could be the solution. (2021)


Article

Personalized Skin Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in New Trial Results

The future of cancer treatment might involve personalized vaccines meant to manage or even prevent relapses—at least if new research published Thur... (2021)


Article

Why We’re a Lot Better at Fighting Cancer Than We Realized

In their long-running effort to defeat cancer, medical researchers have made a startling discovery: A lot of the time, they have no idea how their ... (2020)


Article

Experimental Blood Test Detects Cancer up to Four Years before Symptoms Appear

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2020)


Article

When you lose weight, your fat cells don't just let go of fat

If cells were personified, fat cells would be an overbearing grandparent who hoards. (2020)


Article

10 Facts About Sunscreen That Most People Don't Know Due To Marketing Tricks — BuzzFeed

SPF 30 sunscreen offers nearly the same amount of protection as SPF 100+. (2020)


Article

Google's new AI detects breast cancer just by scanning X-ray

Google‘s AI team has just developed a new system to scan X-rays to help radiologists in detecting breast cancer. The model was developed in partner... (2020)


Article

Crispr Takes Its First Steps in Editing Genes to Fight Cancer - The New York Times (2019)

So far, a procedure that turbocharges the immune system to attack tumors seems safe, but it’s too soon to tell whether it helps patients. (2019)


Article

ArsenalBio emerges from stealth with $85 million and a dream team to fight cancer – TechCrunch

The story behind ArsenalBio begins with Sean Parker’s Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. Founded in 2016, the Institute has been instrumental in p... (2019)


Article

Skin cancer: Half of people surviving advanced melanoma - BBC News

An "extraordinary transformation" is how doctors describe therapies for advanced melanoma. (2019)


Article

Is Sunscreen the New Margarine? | Outside Online

Is it possible that we've been wrong about sunscreen all along? “Wouldn’t all those rays also raise rates of skin cancer? Yes, but skin cancer k... (2019)


Article

Effects of short-term fasting on cancer treatment - nih.gov

Growing preclinical evidence shows that short-term fasting (STF) protects from toxicity while enhancing the efficacy of a variety of chemotherapeut... (2019)


Article

Sunscreen Chemicals Soak All the Way Into Your Bloodstream | WIRED

But whether that's a health risk remains unclear, according to a new FDA-backed study. (2019)


Article

The Definitive Superfood Ranking | Outside Online

It seems like everything these days is considered a superfood, so we decided to look into which of these foods are actually research-backed and whi... (2016)


Article

Inflammation might be the root of preventable disease | Harvard Magazine

Could inflammation be the root of preventable disease? (2019)


Article

CRISPR has been used to treat US cancer patients for the first time - MIT Technology Review

The gene-editing tool has been used in a trial to enhance the blood cells of two patients with cancer, according to NPR. (2019)


Article

Dog cancer treatment startup raises $5 million from Andreessen Horowitz and others – TechCrunch

One in every three dogs gets cancer, according to the National Canine Cancer Foundation. One Health, a startup that just raised a $5 million seed r... (2019)


Article

Juul Labs gets $12.8 billion investment from Marlboro maker Altria Group – TechCrunch

After a long year fighting underage use of its products, Juul Labs has today struck a deal with Altria Group, the owners of Philip Morris USA and m... (2018)


Article

How Juul, founded on a life-saving mission, became the most embattled startup of 2018 - Fast Company

E-cigarette startup Juul Labs is valued at more than $16 billion. It’s also hooking teens on nicotine and drawing scrutiny from the FDA. Can the co... (2018)


Article

Bay Area city blocks 5G deployments over cancer concerns – TechCrunch

The Bay Area may be the center of the global technology industry, but that hasn’t stopped one wealthy enclave from protecting itself from the futur... (2018)


Article

CRISPR Makes Cancer Cells Turncoats That Attack Their Tumor - Scientific American

Scientific American is the essential guide to the most awe-inspiring advances in science and technology, explaining how they change our understandi... (2018)


Article

How exercise in old age prevents the immune system from declining - BBC News

Highly active elderly people can boost their immune systems to protect against infection, according to research. "They followed 125 long-distanc... (2018)


Article

Was there ever really a “sugar conspiracy”? | Science

Over the past quarter-century, historical research has revealed how major industries from tobacco to lead to petroleum have meddled in science to c... (2018)


Article

Gut Microbes Combine to Cause Colon Cancer, Study Suggests - The New York Times

Two types of bacteria common in the gut may accelerate the growth of tumors, suggesting new possibilities for diagnosis and prevention. (2018)


Article

Cancer ‘vaccine’ eliminates tumors in mice | News Center | Stanford Medicine

Activating T cells in tumors eliminated even distant metastases in mice, Stanford researchers found. Lymphoma patients are being recruited to test ... (2018)


Article

How the sugar industry tried to hide the health effects of its product 50 years ago

Pour some sugar (science) on meeeee “About 50 years ago, the sugar industry stopped funding research that began to show something they wanted to... (2017)


Video

Can AI Catch What Doctors Miss? | Eric Topol | TED

AI could propel the biggest transformation in the history of medicine, says physician-scientist Eric Topol. He explains how sophisticated AI models... (2023)


Video

Hacking bacteria to fight cancer - TEDed

Explore how synthetic biologists are programming bacteria to fight cancer by manipulating their DNA. --In 1884, an unlucky patient who had a rapidl... (2022)


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Why is it so hard to cure cancer? - Kyuson Yun

Download a free audiobook and support TED-Ed's nonprofit mission: http://adbl.co/2gauxND Check out Siddhartha Mukherjee's "The Emperor of All Malad... (2017)


Podcast

The Biology of Aging: Introducing Bio Eats World (ep 1) - Andreessen Horowitz

Listen to this episode from a16z Podcast on Spotify. Welcome to the first episode of Bio Eats World, a brand new podcast all about h... (2020)


Podcast

CRISPR In China: Cancer Treatment With Gene Editing Underway : NPR

More than a third of patients with cancer of the esophagus responded to experimental treatment in China with the gene-editing technique CRISPR. Sev... (2018)


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