While browsing the news, these are some of the stories that caught my attention:

• The NIH has launched new breast cancer research with a focus on prevention. Grant-funded investigators will study risk factors for breast cancer in racially and ethnically diverse populations.
• A joint study by UT Southwestern Medical Center and Parkland Health Hospital System has found that outreach increases completion of HPV vaccination series by adolescent girls. The results are reported in Pediatrics.
• Scientists at MIT and Harvard have for the first time identified the universe of genes in the human genome essential for the survival and proliferation of human cell lines or cultured human cells. Read more about their discovery in Science.
• Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research in the UK have developed a new test to identify patients at risk of suffering a relapse from testicular cancer. Their findings have been published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research
• The American Cancer Society released new breast cancer screening guidelines. It now calls for women to begin mammograms at 45 years of age and have mammograms every other year starting at the age of 55. For more specifics on the new recommendations, read the following article in JAMA.