News tagged with human oncogenes

Protein found to be the link missing between HPV infection and cervical cancer development

Most women are infected with human papillomavirus (HPV), which can cause cervical cancer - yet few develop the cancer. Now researchers at Georgetown Lombardi Comprehensive Cancer Center, a part of Georgetown University Medical ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Apr 05, 2011 | popularity 4 / 5 (1) | comments 0

A yeast cancer model for mapping cancer genes

Researchers have devised a scheme for identifying genes in yeast that could lead to the identification of new cancer genes in humans. The study is published online this week in the open-access journal PLoS Bi ...

Biology / Biotechnology

created Jul 28, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 0

Cancer: Another step towards medication

The Myc-gene plays an important role in cell regulation; in about 50 percent of all tumors this gene is mutated. Scientists led by Professor Klaus Bister of the University of Innsbruck, Austria have shown ...

Medicine & Health / Cancer

created Mar 18, 2009 | popularity not rated yet | comments 1