News from the Annual Meeting of the American Association for Cancer Research (AACR) 2015 held in Philadelphia April 18 – 22, 2015 at the Pennsylvania Convention Center, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania http://www.aacr.org/Meetings/Page/MeetingDetail.aspx?EventItemID=25 Disclaimer: Due to the many posters and program items covered… Read More ›
Cancer Risk
Are MicroRNAs the new players in metabolism and metabolic disorders?
Micro RNAs (miRNAs) have recently emerged as key regulators of metabolic processes! . More and more evidence is accumulating that suggest that the dysregulation of miRNAs may contribute to metabolic abnormalities such as the misregulation of cholesterol and lipid metabolism, insulin… Read More ›
Are viruses hiding within us?
Recent research results indicate that viral sequences are part of us. Endogenous viral elements (EVEs) or endogenous retroviral elements (ERVs) have been identified in eukaryotic genomes including the human genome. The findings revealed the enormous scale of the invasion of… Read More ›
What is Aging? What are Aging Theories?
Have you ever asked yourself the following questions? . Why do we age? When do we start aging? Is there a biomarker for aging? Is there a limit to how old we can grow? . Many theories have been proposed… Read More ›
A New Approach to Cancer Therapy
Poster 5319 presented by Dr. Masamitsu Konno reports a new way for a cancer therapy to treat Gastrointestinal Cancer . The title of the poster presented in the AACR 2013 Meeting poster session on Wednesday morning in the section “Non-Coding… Read More ›
Food, Nutrition, Physical Activity and Cancer Risk
More News and Things I learned from the AACR 2013 Meeting! The American Institute for Cancer Research publishes progress reports on the fight against cancer. It also developed a list of recommendations on healthy lifestyle habits that have been shown… Read More ›
Q-FISHing to monitor molecular aging
By Klaus D. Linse Fluorescence In Situ Hybridization (FISH) for Telomere Length Quantification or Q-FISH evolves into High-Throughput Q-FISH Fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) is a powerful tool and probes that exhibit high DNA and RNA affinities promise to improve… Read More ›