For the first time, scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have defined key events that take place early in the process of cellular aging.

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Nov 21, 2012 5 / 5 (6) 3 |

An international team of researchers led by investigators in the U.S. and Germany has shed light on the inner workings of the endocycle, a common cell cycle that fuels growth in plants, animals and some human tissues and ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Oct 30, 2011 4.7 / 5 (3) 3 |

Researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have demonstrated in mice that the performance of a novel biomarker-development pipeline using targeted mass spectrometry is robust enough to support the use of an analogous ...

Biology - Biotechnology

Jun 19, 2011 5 / 5 (1) 0 |

A landmark breast health care publication reveals a multitude of barriers that keep women of developing nations from being screened and treated for breast cancer – but offers tools to help countries improve their breast ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Apr 01, 2011 not rated yet 0

A study of Yup'ik Eskimos in Alaska, who on average consume 20 times more omega-3 fats from fish than people in the lower 48 states, suggests that a high intake of these fats helps prevent obesity-related chronic diseases ...

Medicine & Health - Health

Mar 24, 2011 not rated yet 0

Full-term pregnancy has long been associated with a reduced risk of breast cancer, but a new study finds that the more times a woman gives birth, the higher her risk of "triple-negative" breast cancer, a relatively uncommon ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Feb 24, 2011 not rated yet 0

Women who have experienced hot flushes and other symptoms of menopause may have a 50 percent lower risk of developing the most common forms of breast cancer than postmenopausal women who have never had such symptoms, according ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Jan 25, 2011 5 / 5 (2) 0

A decade of refinements in marrow and stem cell transplantation to treat blood cancers significantly reduced the risk of treatment-related complications and death, according to an institutional self-analysis of transplant-patient ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Nov 24, 2010 not rated yet 2

An international team of researchers led by an investigator from Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center has made a second critical advance in determining the cause of a common form of muscular dystrophy known as facioscapulohumeral ...

Medicine & Health - Genetics

Oct 28, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 0 |

It is well known that exposure to radiation has multiple harmful effects - including causing cancer - but until now, it has been unclear to what extent such exposure increases a person's risk of developing more than one cancer.

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Sep 15, 2010 not rated yet 0

When it comes to the mechanics of the human immune system, we are all more alike than previously thought, according to a new study by scientists at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

Medicine & Health - Medical research

Sep 01, 2010 5 / 5 (4) 1

For the first time, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have identified and isolated adult mammary stem cells in mice. Long-term implications of this research may include the use of such cells to regenerate ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Aug 31, 2010 5 / 5 (3) 2 |

How is it that some people who apparently freeze to death, with no heart rate or respiration for extended periods, can be brought back to life with no long-term negative health consequences? New findings from the laboratory ...

Biology - Cell & Microbiology

Jun 10, 2010 5 / 5 (8) 2 |

The bacterium Helicobacter pylori, which lives in the human stomach and is associated with ulcers and gastric cancer, is shaped like a corkscrew, or helix. For years researchers have hypothesized that the bacterium's twisty ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

May 27, 2010 not rated yet 0 |

Women with breast cancer before age 55 who carry an inherited mutation in the breast cancer susceptibility genes BRCA1 or BRCA2 are four times more likely to develop cancer in the breast opposite, or contralateral, to their ...

Medicine & Health - Cancer

Apr 05, 2010 not rated yet 0