Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:
- Happy 100th birthday to the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences! To celebrate the milestone, key papers of the past century will be highlighted as well as a timeline of significant moments in PNAS history.
- Congress displays support of roughly $32 billion in NIH funding for 2015.
- Scientists at the University of California, San Diego have discovered a biomarker CD61 responsible for tumor metastasis. Findings are published in Nature Cell Biology.
- A new study conducted in mice has implicated a single type of cell, in the lining of the bladder, as responsible for most cases of invasive bladder cancer. Research was conducted at the Stanford University School of Medicine and also published in Nature Cell Biology.
- A new study led by researchers at Johns Hopkins links chronic prostate inflammation with the development of prostate cancer. Findings are published in the journal Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention.
- AML is one of most aggressive types of leukemia. Now researchers at The Ohio State University Comprehensive Cancer Center have discovered a gene within a gene that contributes to the aggressiveness of the disease. Research results are published in Science Signaling.
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