17+ min ago   (747+ words) For years, biologists catalogued small non-coding RNAs by counting how many of each type appeared in a sequencing run. That approach treated tiny RNA molecules as a census problem, and it worked well enough for microRNAs, the classical regulators of…...

26+ min ago   (70+ words) Hepatocellular carcinoma, the most common form of liver cancer, remains one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, and clinicians have long sought new strategies that exploit vulnerabilities unique to cancer cells. A research team at Nanchang University in China now…...

36+ min ago   (667+ words) Colorectal cancer remains one of the deadliest malignancies worldwide, and even the most aggressive chemotherapy regimens can fail in a frustratingly subtle way. Tumors often shrink in response to treatment, yet a small population of cells survives in a quiet,…...

49+ min ago   (512+ words) Researchers have introduced DartUniFrac, a new software tool designed to carry out UniFrac-based microbiome comparisons at a scale that was previously impractical....

49+ min ago   (628+ words) When patients with advanced gastric cancer receive immune checkpoint inhibitors, one of the most puzzling phenomena in modern oncology is the apparent paradox that side effects can be good news....

1+ hour, 2+ min ago   (679+ words) For most of modern biology, the hunt for new human proteins has followed a familiar path: read the genetic sequence, predict where genes begin and end, and work outward from there. That strategy has served science remarkably well, delivering the…...

1+ hour, 11+ min ago   (350+ words) Scientists at Uppsala University have taken a significant step toward a long-sought goal in industrial biotechnology: using sunlight and carbon dioxide to feed engineered microbes that churn out valuable chemicals. In a study published in Applied Microbiology and Biotechnology, Stamatina…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (76+ words) A new prospective longitudinal study of 327 patients with lung cancer undergoing radiotherapy has found that something as ordinary as a daily step count, captured silently by a smartphone app, can reveal which patients are likely to slip into worsening frailty…...

1+ hour, 20+ min ago   (682+ words) People living with HIV in the United States face a sharply elevated risk of cancers driven by human papillomavirus, yet the preventive services designed to catch these malignancies early are not reaching all patients equally....

1+ hour, 31+ min ago   (732+ words) Lymphoma is one of the most common diagnoses in veterinary oncology, accounting for roughly 7 to 24 percent of all canine cancers and fully 80 percent of hematopoietic tumors in dogs....