Teams led by researchers at George Mason University have published a pair of studies exploring protein signaling in breast and colon cancer that could offer new insights into treatments for the diseases.
Technology developed by Lance Liotta and Emanuel Petricoin will be used to find and identify biomarkers for evaluating new investigational therapies for the neoadjuvant-drug study.
According to Stat News, the partial government shutdown in the US could soon affect the ability of the Food and Drug Administration to review new drugs.
CNN reports that people's genes tend to have a greater influence on their risk of developing disease than their environment, but it varies by phenotype.
