Archive for July, 2006

Tangled Bank #58

Wednesday, July 19th, 2006

Salto sobrius, a blog dedicated to “archaeology, skepticism and sundry musings kept by an archaeologist in Stockholm, Sweden,” hosts the latest edition of Tangled Bank, a collection of the latest science writing from around the blogosphere.
Tangled Bank #58 opens with a link here to the recent post concerning the epigenetics of lung cancer, but it [...]

Breast Cancer Detection Improves through Methylation-Specific PCR

Friday, July 14th, 2006

Researchers at Johns Hopkins University have found a way to test for breast cancer in body fluid that doubles the rate of detection of the life threatening disease. Their work, reported in the June 1 edition of Clinical Cancer Research, shows an improvement in diagnosis from 33 percent through traditional cytology methods to 71 percent [...]

The Epigenetics of Lung Cancer

Wednesday, July 12th, 2006

Lung cancer and epigenetics have become inextricably linked. That’s the word from Dr. Annalese Semmler and colleagues from the The University of Queensland and The Prince Charles Hospital in Queensland, Australia in the journal Respirology.
In an invited review exploring the link between epigenetics and lung cancer, the Australian scientists do an admirable job of summarizing [...]

Nature’s Top 50 Science Blogs: A Technorati Ranking

Tuesday, July 11th, 2006

This week Nature recognized the top 50 science blogs (written by scientists), and ranked them according to their Technorati ranking. It seems that the aim of this list was to use an objective method to make a list of some of the most popular science blogs around.
But I think the important thing to recognize with [...]

Multiple Marker Approach to Colorectal Cancer Detection

Thursday, July 6th, 2006

Epigenomics AG released clinical data this week showing that a new approach to early colorectal cancer detection in blood can be used to detect most colon polyps.Colon polyps are benign proliferations that can give rise to cancer. The risk is considerably high if they are greater than 1 cm in size. Their timely removal is [...]