Swallowing sponge on a string could replace endoscopy as pre-cancer test
The results of a Cancer Research UK trial involving more than 1,000 people are being presented at the National Cancer Research Institute’s annual conference in Liverpool. …
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Genetic tracking identifies cancer stem cells in human patients — ScienceDaily
source : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2014/05/140515123303.htm
Shining stem cells reveals how our skin is maintained
The results have just been published in the journal Cell Stem Cell. New knowledge challenge stem cell models The skin consists of many different cell types, including hair cells, fat- and sweat glands. …
‘Junk DNA’ plays active role in cancer progression, researchers find
The researchers, led by Dr Cristina Tufarelli, in the School of Graduate Entry Medicine and Health Sciences, discovered that the presence of this faulty genetic element — known as chimeric transcript LCT13 — is associated with the switching off of a known tumour suppressor gene (known as TFPI-2) whose expression is required to prevent cancer invasion and metastasis. …