cancer
Jury in third glyphosate-cancer trial orders Bayer to pay over $2 billion in damages—eighth-largest ever product-defect claim
Bayer AG was ordered to pay more than $2 billion in damages to a California couple that claimed they got ...
Viewpoint: How my cancer treatment turned me into a living, breathing GMO
Whether in cancer cells or apples, GMOs are improving lives ...
Infographic: Global cancer death rates declining or holding steady
The overall global trends on cancer mortality ... tells a story which at first glance can seem conflicting. The total ...
Roundup on trial: Cancer cases plateaued while glyphosate use exploded, Bayer expert witness testifies
Alva Pilliod’s lymphoma likely had no known cause, but his singularly abnormal immune system allowed it to flourish, an oncologist ...
Tumor ‘black box’ could pinpoint the cause of each patient’s cancer, researchers say
The cause of cancer is written into the DNA of tumours, scientists have discovered, in a breakthrough which could finally ...
Viewpoint: Defending IARC’s designation of glyphosate as carcinogenic undermines evidence-based science
The apologetics of the decision's defenders are becoming all too predictable ...
Fine-tuning CAR-T cancer therapy could eliminate serious side effects, study says
A novel approach to CAR-T cancer therapy promises to upend what has become a truism in medicine: that the treatment’s dramatic effect ...
EPA reaffirms glyphosate weed killer safe, calls IARC cancer designation an ‘outlier’ inconsistent with multiple assessments
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on [April 30] reaffirmed its finding that glyphosate, the world's most popular herbicide, is not ...
Infographic: US cancer death rates have been dropping steadily after many peaked in the early 1990s
The chart provides longer-run trends in cancer death rates, from 1930 in the United States... . Overall, particularly in lung ...
‘Encyclopedia’ of cancer mutations could pinpoint new carcinogens
Previously, scientists have had only a limited number of tools for working out the cause of an individual’s tumor. As ...
Costly CAR T-cell therapy gets boost with Medicare proposal to increase reimbursements
Medicare officials on [April 23] proposed increasing reimbursements for a groundbreaking but costly cancer therapy used for patients whose blood ...
‘Biotech fantasy’? This startup wants to kill cancer by targeting RNA with new generation of pills
Arrakis Therapeutics is named for the desert planet in the legendary “Dune” series of science-fiction novels. It’s an apt name because ...
Taking cancers apart ‘piece-by-piece’ in search for vulnerabilities that could be attacked with precision medicine
Scientists have taken cancer apart piece-by-piece to reveal its weaknesses, and come up with new ideas for treatment. A team ...
Bayer asks appellate court to toss $78 million glyphosate-cancer verdict
Bayer AG on [April 24] asked a California appellate court to throw out a $78 million judgment it was ordered ...
Glyphosate exposure causes ‘transgenerational inheritance of disease’ in rats, study claims, but scientists question data
Washington State University researchers have found a variety of diseases and other health problems in the second- and third-generation offspring ...
Vietnam’s glyphosate ban: Beginning of a dangerous global trend?
Vietnam’s decision to ban farmers from using glyphosate is troubling in three ways: it appears to rely on decisions set ...
Infographic: Number of people with cancer has more than doubled since 1990
How many people in the world have cancer? Globally, it's estimated that 42 million people across the world suffered from ...
Food companies pursue ‘glyphosate free’ certification as Roundup-cancer legal battle rages
Companies are increasingly enrolling in a voluntary certification program that provides glyphosate-free labels for their products, as consumers grow more wary of ...
Cancer has a male bias and we’re just starting to understand why
More than half of neurooncologist Josh Rubin’s pediatric brain cancer patients over his 25-year career have been boys. … About a ...
Viewpoint: Roundup on trial—speculative glyphosate-cancer lawsuits based on ‘junk science’
“The art of junk science is to brush away just enough detail to reach desired conclusions, while preserving enough to ...
Will glyphosate residue in beer and wine raise your cancer risk? If you drink 8 gallons a day
How much should we be worried? Not at all ...
‘Crystal ball’ for disease? Genetic tests could predict risk of Alzheimer’s, heart disease, cancer
If a crystal ball could reveal your personal risk for developing heart disease or breast cancer or Alzheimer's disease, would ...
Meet 5 RNA ‘movers and shakers’ including one that may protect against Alzheimer’s
RNAs, composed of strings of genetic letters called nucleotides, are best known for ferrying instructions from the genes in our ...
Viewpoint: ‘Naïve’ calls for glyphosate ban threaten higher food prices, resurgence of more toxic pesticides
The unintended consequences of glyphosate bans are many and potentially severe ...
Glyphosate trial: Text messages, emails reveal Monsanto’s ‘cozy’ relationship with EPA, plaintiffs’ lawyer argues
As the trial over the world’s most widely used herbicide and its connection to a California couple’s cancer stretches into ...
Can light-activated CRISPR lead to new treatments for cancer, diabetes?
Engineers are making their mark on biotech’s hottest commodity. Chinese scientists [April 3] reported that they can control the gene editing tool CRISPR-Cas9 with ...
When cancer becomes contagious: Seeking better understanding of rare transmissible forms of the disease
The untrained eye likely wouldn’t have noticed, but doctoral student Ruth Pye immediately spotted something unusual about the way the cells were ...
