The German Research Foundation approves almost 60M Euros to fund 8 new research centers where scientists will study everything from cancer to space travel.

Breast cancer survivors in Connecticut can get professional help dealing with troublesome treatment side effects thanks to a generous grant and Easter Seals.

Still wondering how you’ll spend your summer vacation? Consider a kid’s cancer camp.
Oncology camps offer pediatric cancer patients and their families a great opportunity to have some fun away from the dreary routine of hospital visits. Plus, kids and their parents get to spend some recreational time with others who truly understand what [...]

Cancer survivors know treatment side effects have a way popping up at inconvenient times and places — sometimes even at the airport. So what do you do if you’re stuck at the airline terminal and you suddenly start to feel ill? These days you might not need to leave the airport to [...]

A team of international scientists has developed a new type of x-ray camera which has no lens, yet is powerful enough to capture images of tiny nanoscale features inside biological cells.
The innovative device could help researchers gain a greater understanding of cancer by allowing them to view biological processes taking place inside whole [...]

Children’s Hospitals and Clinics of Minnesota has won the Innovation of the Year in Patient Care Award from the Minnesota Hospital Association for making chemotherapy, CT scans and other medical procedures less frightening for children.
Children’s Hospitals and Clinics have been using nitrous oxide, a mild sedative commonly referred to as laughing gas, to relax [...]

The National Science Foundation (NSF), Google Incorporated (NASDAQ: GOOG), and the IBM Corporation (NYSE: IBM) have formed a partnership to create the Cluster Exploratory (CluE), an innovative tool designed to help the academic community conduct research projects that would otherwise be too expensive to explore.
CluE is a new distributed computing resource [...]

Eight outstanding cancer care providers will receive the Lane W. Adams Quality of Life Award from the American Cancer Society (ACS) in a ceremony on Friday, May 9, 2008.
This year’s ACS honors will go to:
Karen Allison, CPNP
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, New York, New York
Karleen Habin, RN
Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts
Kathy Lopeman, RN
Central Peninsula Hospital, Soldotna, [...]

The process of conducting cancer research is getting faster for a group of University of Minnesota scientists.
Representatives from the Hormel Institute announced they’ve purchased an IBM (NYSE: IBM) Blue Gene supercomputer capable of processing 5-6 trillion operations a second – a speed that’ll allow Hormel to triple the number of research projects it [...]

A team at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory has successfully installed the world’s most powerful transmission electron microscope.
TEAM 0.5, as the device is known, produces high contrast images with half-angstrom, or half a 10-billionth of a meter, resolution. The state-of-the-art microscope continuously adjusts and corrects spherical aberrations so scientists can study detailed [...]