Fred Hutch researchers launch free online tool to assess colorectal cancer risk Researchers led by Ulrike “Riki” Peters, PhD, MPH, holder of the 40th Anniversary Endowed Chair, and Li Hsu, PhD, ...

Self-administered tests can increase screening rates, said Health and Human Services Department officials.

We’re all mostly human. 8% of your genome comes from viruses. In A Nutshell Scientists captured the first detailed images of ...

Cancers and viruses: why not pit two of our biggest biological foes against each other? Scientists at the Institute of Cancer Research and the Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust used a drug made from ...

Scientists have discovered that an attenuated (weakened) virus can help eliminate cancer in mice. In addition, mice that were treated with this virus were more resistant to developing tumors later in ...

Homo sapiens was basically infected by these viruses for all of its existence," the scientist added. As per the outlet, ...

Scientists have genetically modified a strain of the herpes virus to act as a cancer-killing agent in humans. Findings from an initial human trial are encouraging, with the experimental treatment ...

Professor Sir Anthony Epstein, who has died aged 102, was a pathologist and virologist who co-discovered a virus which causes a rare form of lymph-node cancer known as Burkitt lymphoma. Epstein met ...

THE notion that beer can be good for you is by no means new. In the 1950s, the makers of Guinness claimed their brew was a ...

When breast oncologists see new patients, one of their hopes is that the patient doesn’t have triple-negative breast cancer. The subtype is considered particularly dangerous, as it tends to grow and ...

In spite of generations of experience and all the thousands of case histories, cancer research has advanced at a turtle’s pace. Doctors acknowledge the basic truisms that cancer is cell growth gone ...

Researchers have shown for the first time how Merkel cell polyomavirus (MCV), which causes an aggressive skin cancer called Merkel cell carcinoma, initiates DNA replication in host cells. University ...