Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

• A Washington D.C. hospital reports high rate of black women seeking treatment for advanced breast cancer. Numbers are double the national average.
• Researchers at Northwestern University find link between vitamin D deficiency and aggressive prostate cancer. The study was published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
• Researchers at Johns Hopkins use stem cells derived from human body fat to deliver treatment for deadly glioblastoma in mice. Their findings were published in the journal Clinical Cancer Research.
• GDF 11, the anti-aging protein, making mice younger.
• Scientists at the National Cancer Institute have published a paper where they described the deployment of a patient’s own cells to combat an aggressive cancer.
• Scientists have created the first living organism containing artificial DNA. The study was published in the journal Nature.

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Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

• Happy 100^th 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.

Please feel free to contact Marisol Hernandez for comments on the latest cancer research news.

Here are a few highlights of cancer research news that have recently caught my attention:

• The journal Science recently published a paper about the uncertainty surrounding funding for biomedicine. Those in the scientific world are closely monitoring congressional activity as politicians debate government spending. Also of note, is the fact that budgets at the NIH have remained flat during the last several years. For more, please read Chasing the Money.
• The National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences (NCATS) has named a new Clinical Innovations Director. Beginning May 4th, Dr. Petra Kaufmann will head this division and oversee the Clinical and Translational Science Awards.  Continue reading →