Web tools and social networking sites are changing how cancer patients approach treatment — a new report analyzes the trend that’s transforming medicine.

Biomedical engineers at Carnegie Mellon University create new computer software designed to recognize precise protein patterns associated with human cancers.

Belfast scientists build an antenna for creating wireless networks on the body — technology that could have doctors checking vital signs on their cell phones.

Two California universities and MIT team up to create a polymer-protected nanoworm that may one day make it possible to deliver cancer drugs directly to tumors.

Mathematical theories and hefty grants are helping a British engineer create better models of cancer and hospital ventilators. Feedback control is the key.

Scientists from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) and Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc (NASDAQ: ALNY) have discovered a method which makes it possible to deliver powerful RNA interference (RNAi) therapies directly to the precise location where cancer or viral infections are developing. RNAi therapies are designed to turn on and off disease-causing genes. Early RNAi studies [...]

South African health officials are hoping the installation a new Positron Emission Tomography – Computed Tomography (PET-CT) scanner will help them reduce cancer deaths in their country. While PET-CT imaging devices are commonly used to diagnose cancer in US hospitals, this is only the second one available to patients in South Africa’s public hospitals. Mr [...]

German physicians have successfully used ovarian tissue implants to restore fertility to a 32-year-old cancer survivor who lost her ability to get pregnant after receiving treatments for anal cancer. Knowing the tumor’s close proximity to reproductive organs increased the possibility of infertility, doctors at Erlangen University Hospital removed healthy ovarian tissue from the young woman [...]

Hey I love the book store but, let’s face it, buying a bunch of cancer books can get expensive – especially when you’re a patient with medical expenses to consider. And with chemotherapy, radiation, surgery or lab tests on the schedule, it can be hard to find the time to drive from library to library [...]

A project led by the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, the University of California, Berkeley and the University of California, Santa Cruz is allowing scientists to see individual ribosomes in action for the first time. Ribosomes play an important role in the body by translating the genetic instructions carried by messenger RNA (mRNA). The ability to [...]