Écrit par Wiley | 29 Mai 2014

Circumcision is performed for various reasons, including those that are based on religion, aesthetics, or health. New research indicates that the procedure may help prevent prostate cancer in some men. The findings, which are published in BJU International, add to a growing list of advantages to circumcision.

Besides advanced age, African ancestry, and family history of prostate cancer, no...

Écrit par GlobalData | 21 Mai 2014

LONDON, UK (GlobalData), 20 May 2014 - As one of the fastest emerging areas of in vitro diagnostic devices, the companion diagnostics testing market value will increase from $421 million in 2013 to $669.7 million by 2020, at a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 6.85%, says research and consulting firm GlobalData.

According to the company’s latest report*, the major feature of the...

Écrit par EMBO | 13 Mai 2014

HEIDELBERG, 13 May 2014 – More than 60 years ago Otto Warburg recognized that cancer cells differ from normal cells in the metabolic pathway they use for the oxidation of sugar. Rather than the typical series of oxidative steps that take place in the citric acid cycle, cancer cells metabolize sugar via the glycolytic pathway irrespective of whether oxygen is present or not. In The EMBO...

Écrit par Wiley | 12 Mai 2014

Researchers from Italy confirm that urinary ethyl glucuronide (uEtG) accurately detects alcohol consumption in liver transplant candidates and recipients. The study published in Liver Transplantation, a journal of the American Association for the Study of Liver Diseases and the International Liver Transplantation Society, suggests that a combination of uEtG and the Alcohol Use...