Censorship is really old as the world itself. In fact, censorship has emerged with articulated language, when people first realized the power and, especially, the danger of words in certain situations. Although in some circumstances,…
Vive la différence? Not at the level of DNA. Men must increase gene expression on their lone X-chromosome to match the two X’s possessed by women. A new study explains just how men manage to…
Differences in growth factor (GF) signaling may cause the poor prognosis in some breast cancer cases. A new study, published in the open access journal BMC Medical Genomics, suggests that some estrogen receptor-positive breast cancers…
Applied Biosystems, an Applera Corporation business, today entered a new era of life-science research by announcing the worldwide commercial availability of the SOLiD System, the company’s highly anticipated next-generation DNA sequencing platform. The SOLiD System…
A popular prostate cancer treatment called androgen deprivation therapy may encourage prostate cancer cells to produce a protein that makes them more likely to spread throughout the body, a new study by Johns Hopkins researchers…