Cells have a mailing system of sorts. They can release tiny molecular balls, called extracellular vesicles (EVs), that ...

Many mitochondrial diseases have been difficult to study and treat due to the inherent challenges in accessing mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA). Now, researchers have optimized mitochondrial-targeted ...

Endometrial cancer is the most common gynecological cancer in highly-developed countries, most often affecting women after ...

Researchers from the Endocrine Tumors group at the Germans Trias i Pujol Research Institute (IGTP), in collaboration with ...

For example, Black women have a 40% higher rate of death from breast cancer than White women, and their rate of death from uterine cancer is double that of White women.Differences in access to ...

Schonfeld SJ, Hartge P, Pfeiffer, RM, et al. An aggregated analysis of hormonal factors and endometrial cancer risk by parity. Cancer 2012 Dec 20. doi: 10.1002/cncr.27909. [Epub ahead of print] It ...

Laurie and Scott Stone felt the full weight of this burden when Laurie was diagnosed with uterine cancer in 2022. She went through extensive testing and was advised to have a hysterectomy.

Most cells in the human body each contain about six feet of DNA. Yet the nucleus ... are associated with many diseases, such as cancer and developmental disorders. Identifying what controls ...

Monitoring blood levels of DNA fragments released by dying tumor cells can accurately predict the return of skin cancer. In a study led by NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center ...

A study led by scientists at NYU Langone Health and its Perlmutter Cancer Center has shown that monitoring blood levels of DNA fragments shed by dying tumor cells may accurately predict skin ...

To maintain genome stability, cells need to faithfully replicate their DNA before dividing. A key feature of cancer cells is their forced proliferation, which causes a hasty uncontrolled start of DNA ...