In the Brazilian state of Goias, situated in the center of the nation and home to the national capital of Brasilia, residents’ expressions in the sunbaked hills of Araras are all but non-existent. Blood-red eyes peer through twisted expressions, across faces scorched and scarred by the sun. Home to a very rare, and very dangerous genetic skin disorder, Xeroderma pigmentosum, the residents of Araras have become “children of the night” as they evade the excruciating effects that sunlight has on their dermal layers.
Genetic landscape of rare cancer acts as a guide for future clinical trials
Growing use of colonoscopy credited for drop
The results show that almost a hundred genes could explain the relationship between diseases that at first glance seem so different
The accumulation of age-associated changes in a biochemical process that helps control genes may be responsible for some of the increased risk of cancer seen in older people, according to a National Institutes of Health study.
Researchers at MD Anderson, Baylor College of Medicine lead Cancer Genome Atlas project
DOWNERS GROVE, Ill. - January 28, 2014 - A new study reports that in the absence of biopsy-proven invasive cancer, a second colonoscopy done at an expert center may be appropriate to reevaluate patients referred for surgical resection.
Sleepy immune system tips balance toward tumors
