Sep. 22, 2022 — A common, spontaneous mutation in blood stem cells, which has been linked to higher risks of blood cancer and cardiovascular disease, may promote these diseases by altering the ...

Jan. 15, 2025 — While most known types of DNA damage are fixed by our cells' in-house DNA repair mechanisms, some forms of DNA damage evade repair and can persist for many years, new research shows.

This dependence on signaling processes is also a protective mechanism. If stem cells were able to multiply uncontrollably, this would lead to uncontrolled growth, as in the case of cancer.

Surgery to remove a small part of the bowel lining (local resection) Local resection is for small, early stage colon cancers. Your surgeon removes the cancer from the bowel lining, along with a border ...

A group of immune proteins called the inflammasome can help prevent blood stem cells from becoming malignant by removing certain receptors from their surfaces and blocking cancer gene activity ...

Bowel cancer is now the fourth most common cancer and there are about 1,000 cases of bowel cancer per year in Northern Ireland. If it’s diagnosed early, the patient has a 90% chance of survival ...

Although the small intestine makes up the largest part of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract, small intestine cancers are rare in the United States. In fact, they account for fewer than 1 in 10 cancers ...

The incidence of the most common form of liver cancer ... biology that allows cells to re-enter the cell cycle after undergoing senescence, and we believe that similar mechanisms could be acting ...

Dr. Frank Zhou gives an overview in this week's "HealthLink on Air." He directs the blood and bone marrow stem cell transplantation and cellular therapy program at Upstate. Also in the show, Dr. Idan ...

Researchers at the Technion-Israel Institute of Technology have discovered a unique genetic mechanism that provides ... In embryonic stem cells, these molecules influence differentiation toward ...