PrOnc Tumor Source
Updated: 2010-06-30 01:07:25
Our immune systems are highly trained to recognise and destroy foreign invaders such as bacteria and viruses. But cancer starts from our own cells, so it’s difficult for the immune system to recognise and fight tumours. However, our immune defences do have some powerful weapons at their disposal, including a molecule called tumour necrosis factor, [...]
Our bodies are made of millions upon millions of tiny cells. One of the biggest challenges for researchers studying cancer is to find out what individual cells are doing as they change from a healthy state to a cancerous one. But many lab techniques only give an overview of a large population of cells, either [...]
Mobile phone base stations do not increase the risk of childhood cancer, even if a child’s mother lived close to a mast when pregnant. That’s the message from the largest study looking at the health effects of mobile phone base stations in the UK. The new research, published in the British Medical Journal, should provide [...]
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Here’s a fun video with a serious message. Heart FM DJs Ed and Rachel went along to the Birmingham Cancer Research UK Centre to find out what our researchers are up to. After getting “geeked up” in lab coats, gloves and goggles, the pair extract DNA from strawberries, and discover how our scientists are studying [...]
Have you ever wondered exactly how scientists study genes? The human genome contains tens of thousands of genes, encoded in strings of millions of DNA ‘letters’. It’s no small task to home in on one short sequence in this genetic haystack. From cancer researchers to CSI-style forensic pathologists – and pretty much every molecular biologist [...]
It’s Universities Week this week, and we’re throwing our support behind Universities UK’s campaign. They’re running a series of events to raise awareness of how important universities really are to the UK. Universities make a big impact on our economy, generating almost £59 billion every year. They are some of the largest employers in their [...]
Although it may not seem obvious at first, there are important links between Down’s syndrome and cancer. Down’s syndrome affects one in every 1,000 babies born in the UK. Named after the British doctor who first described the disease in 1866, it happens when a baby gets an extra copy of (or part of) chromosome [...]
Our cells are dividing all the time – replacing worn-out cells and healing injuries. But cell division can be a tricky business – every time a cell divides, each one of its 46 chromosomes, and the DNA they are made of, must be copied perfectly. Time and time again the cells in our bodies divide [...]
Sunbeds increase the risk of skin cancer – the evidence has been overwhelming for some time, and that’s why we supported the new law to protect children from them. The International Agency for Research on Cancer (IARC, part of the World Health Organisation), who provide gold-standard judgments on the state of the evidence about all [...]
The American Cancer Society’s Dr Len Lichtenfeld has written a summary of his thoughts about the recent ASCO conference, which we mentioned earlier this week, for the CNBC website. Despite several promising results – including some from our own researchers – it sounds like the mood at the conference was tempered by the reality of [...]