A Homely
Rodent May Hold Cancer-Fighting Clues
The laboratory
of Vera Gorbunova and Andrei Seluanov, a husband-and-wife team of biologists at
the University of
Rochester , has the feel
of a petting zoo. They maintain colonies of several species of rodents — some
familiar, like mice and guinea pigs, and some much more exotic, like blind mole
rats from Israel and naked
mole rats from East Africa .
By Carl Zimmer. In New York Times
Pluripotent
Stem Cells Made from Pancreatic Cancer Cells Are First Human Model of the
Cancer's Progression
Pancreatic
cancer carries a dismal prognosis. According to the National Cancer Institute,
the overall five-year relative survival for 2003-2009 was 6 percent.
In Science
Daily (blog)
Red Meat and
Cancer: What's the Beef?
Large
European and American studies are the most recent to examine the link between
red meat and cancer. Medscape talked to the study authors and reviewed other
evidence to determine whether there is reason to have a beef about eating beef.
By Laura A. Stokowski. In Medscape Oncology
Cancer in
numbers - infographic
Some
key statistics on current and projected cancer diagnoses.
By Samantha Jones. In The Guardian
Herding
cancer cells to their death
Researchers
report a therapeutic strategy that appears to destroy drug resistant melanomas
and suppress metastasis.
In EurekAlert
(press release)
Les produits laitiers ne favorisent
pas le cancer (à une exception près)
La consommation régulière de
produits laitiers, encouragée par les autorités, ne favorise pas le cancer et
aurait même dans certains cas un effet protecteur. Mais elle augmenterait
légèrement le risque de cancer de la prostate, selon des spécialistes réunis
jeudi à Paris.
Dans Huffington Post
Le secret du rat-taupe nu contre le
cancer
Ce petit animal est laid. Mais il a
une propriété qui pourrait bien tous nous intéresser.
Dans Slate.fr
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