Colon

A lethal cancer which can go unnoticed for years is striking down young people at an exponential rate — and tearing apart families in the process.While cancers have steadily fallen over recent decades, scientists have been mystified by an…

Pushing into a new chapter of technologically advanced biological sensors, scientists from the University of California San Diego and their colleagues in Australia have engineered bacteria that can detect the presence of tumor DNA in a live…

Popular Korean singer and actor Chung Lim, who is popularly known as Han Chung Lim, has passed away after battling colon cancer for a long time, media reported. He was 37 years old. 1986-born Chung Lim debuted in 2004 with K-Drama "I’m…

Over the past decade, researchers have sought more effective and enduring cancer treatments. Among the wide variety of immunotherapies, Stimulator of Interfron Genes activation (STING agonism) has emerged as a particularly promising…

Johns Hopkins Medicine scientists say they have developed a nanoparticle -- an extremely tiny biodegradable container -- that has the potential to improve the delivery of messenger ribonucleic acid (mRNA)-based vaccines for infectious…

A deadly cancer that grows silently for years is striking down more young people than ever before — and tearing apart families in the process.While cancers have steadily fallen over recent decades, scientists have been mystified by an…

A woman who was diagnosed with stage three colon cancer at age 27 has revealed her early warning signs — amid a mystery uptick in cases in younger adults.Vanessa Mendico, now 29, described herself as a 'super fit' person who exercised five…

Colon cancer is expected to become the number one cause of cancer-related deaths in people under 55 by the end of the decade — and experts are straining to understand why.The disease is currently the second-leading cause of cancer deaths in…

A new study by investigators from Mass General Brigham has linked certain types of gut bacteria to the development of precancerous colon polyps. Their results are published in Cell Host & Microbe. "Researchers have done a lot of work to…

The Korea Advanced Institute of Science and Technology (KAIST) and their collaborators have conducted a groundbreaking study targeting 'jumping genes' in the entire genomes of the human large intestine. Published in Nature on May 18 2023,…