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 Current studies have found that women of color have higher mutation rates of BRCA1 and BRCA2 than previously estimated, and breast cancer in women of color is often a highly aggressive type, namely the type that lacks these three things: no estrogen receptor, no progesterone receptor, and no HER2 amplification.   Read more  

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Scott and Mark Kelly are identical twin brothers — at least, they were until Scott spent a year living in space. When Scott Kelly returned to […]

 We invite those interested to join a seminar on the occasion of the 50th anniversary of chromosome banding, on the topic "From Cytogenetics to Cytogenomics," on Saturday, 26 October 2019. If you want to learn about the past, present, and future of chromosome banding, come and join our seminar. Register at shorturl.at/bvLS9. Free of charge, limited seats available.

 Three independent studies suggest a way to indirectly thwart a mutated gene that drives tumor growth in 95% of people with pancreatic cancer. The changed gene, KRAS, […]

 Leukemia, by Dr. Lalita Norasetthada, Hematology Unit, Department of Internal Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, Chiang Mai University.                  Leukemia is caused by an abnormality of the hematopoietic stem cells in the bone marrow, resulting in an abnormal, massive, and uncontrolled proliferation of white blood cells in the bone marrow. This leads to the accumulation of white blood cells until the bone marrow is full, after which they are released into the bloodstream, causing an abnormally high number of white blood cells in the blood. Leukemia is divided into two main groups according to disease progression: acute leukemia, a disease characterized by the proliferation of immature white blood cells that cannot mature into normal white blood cells, resulting in a rapid increase of immature white blood cells in the bone marrow and a consequent decrease in the production of all types of blood cells. […]

  James P Allison and Tasuku Honjo win Nobel prize for medicine  This article is more than 1 year old American and Japanese immunologists win 2018 award […]