Life Science

Data presented at the AACR meeting supports the idea that breastfeeding protects from breast cancer.

The AACR annual meeting is taking place this week and they have webcasts for many of the talks. The AACR homepage also has breaking news from the meeting.

Here's another article about the expression profile of breast cancer lung mets.

Here's a description of an expression profile that can predict lung metastasis for breast cancer.

This is a very good opinion piece about framing scientific discussion with the public.

Reconstitution of DNA Segregation Driven by Assembly of a Prokaryotic Actin Homolog
Starting Mon, April 19, we will be featuring the recent Science paper from the Mullins lab. Ethan Garner, the first author, will be answering your questions and responding to your comments all week. Please read the paper and start posting your questions and comments.

A new report finds that computer aided detection for mammography does not find more invasive cancers. It does however find more premalignant DCIS.

A new IOM report claims that abstinence education for AIDS prevention (that the US funds) is not as effective as other methods.

The University of Wisconsin just had its patents on embryonic stem cells revoked. This could have a significant impact on stem cell research.

According to this blog there is a bill in congress to improve science communication with the public.