Incidental detection has increased with ubiquitous CT/MRI, inflating early-stage ‘small renal mass’ diagnoses and complicating interpretation of a ~5% rise in <50-year incidence. Obesity, hypertension ...

Northwestern Medicine scientists led by Joseph Bass, MD, Ph.D., the Charles F. Kettering Professor of Endocrinology and Metabolism and director of the Center for Diabetes and Metabolism, have ...

Peanuts are one of the most popular snacks in the world. Many people enjoy them roasted, salted, or mixed into foods such as peanut butter, sauces, and desserts. They are often described as a healthy ...

Obesity significantly increases the risk of developing certain types of cancer through several interacting biological factors ...

Pancreatic cancer is one of the most dangerous forms of cancer in the world. Doctors and scientists have struggled for many years to find effective treatments for it. Many patients are diagnosed at a ...

A recent UC Santa Cruz study, published in Nature Communications scientific journal, uncovered clues in a decadeslong mystery ...

Structural nanomedicine — what helped give us the COVID vaccine — may now be the key to a potent blood cancer treatment that’s had remarkable early results.

A new, highly sensitive cell therapy was able to wipe out three different kinds of solid tumors in mice, an important advance in an area where CAR-T cells have long struggled. But significant ...

Targeting a powerful cancer inhibitor "An Aurora kinase A (AURKA) inhibitor is viewed as a lethal synthetic molecule in cancer therapy, but the problem is you can't dose it high enough, because then ...

Scientists in Korea have uncovered evidence that a common and aggressive brain tumor in young adults may begin developing years before it becomes visible on medical scans. By identifying hidden mutant ...

Researchers have discovered how cells activate a last-resort DNA repair system when severe damage strikes. When genetic tangles overwhelm normal repair pathways, cells flip on a fast but error-prone ...