Tag: Oncogene

  • Nation & World

    Predicting cancer’s spread

    Harvard researchers at Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (DFCI) have identified a number of cancer genes that endow melanoma tumors with the ability to metastasize, making it possible to predict whether the tumors are likely to spread.

    5 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Progress against melanoma

    Harvard stem cell researchers at Children’s Hospital Boston have taken two important steps toward development of a new way of treating melanoma, the most virulent form of skin cancer.

    4 minutes
  • Nation & World

    Targeting lung cancer

    An initial study of a new treatment for a form of lung cancer seems so promising it has been jumped from Phase 1 to Phase 3 clinical trials.

    4 minutes