A new ground zero for prostate cancer

( Howard Hughes Medical Institute ) A type of prostate cell that has been largely ignored by cancer researchers can trigger malignant prostate cancer. The studies provide researchers with a new tool for exploring the genetic changes that lead to prostate cancer. The advance may help in developing new treatments for the disease, which causes some 32,000 deaths in the United States annually.

Scientists Devise Strategy In Bid To Beat Viruses

Scientists have developed a new way to target viruses which could increase the effectiveness of antiviral drugs. Instead of attacking the virus itself, the method developed at the University of Edinburgh alters the conditions which viruses need to survive and multiply. By making the site of infection less hospitable for the virus, the virus becomes less able to mutate and build up resistance to ...

Genome Surprise: Guinea Pigs Have Ebola!

A genomic hunt for virus genes traced sequences to Ebola and the closely related Marburg virus in no fewer than six vertebrate species. The genes appear to have been mixed in about 40 million years ago, and have stuck around ever since.

Aethlon Medical Discloses Availability of CEO Presentation

Aethlon Medical, Inc. , the pioneer in developing therapeutic filtration devices to address infectious disease and cancer, disclosed today that the video of a presentation given on July 21st by Aethlon Chairman and CEO Jim Joyce is now available to be accessed online at:

Unexpected viral 'fossils' found in vertebrate genomes

Over millions of years, retroviruses, which insert their genetic material into the host genome as part of their replication, have left behind bits of their genetic material in vertebrate genomes. In a recent study, published July 29 in the open-access journal PLoS Pathogens, a team of researchers have now found that human and other vertebrate genomes also contain many ancient sequences from ...