Everybody has heard of the Genome project, the DNA mapping project that aims to map out the entire human DNA sequence and define/identify all the parts they play in our daily lives. It turns out that there is a specific gene that handles the skin’s response to the Sun’s Ultraviolet rays triggering the tanning process [...]
Read More..>>Skin affects many around the world and kids are not immune to the threat posed by the disease. Kids like many other things are very much susceptible to the disease just as we all are. The best thing to do with kids is to teach them properly the value and importance of protecting one’s skin [...]
Read More..>>In 2003, almost 50,000 people were afflicted with skin cancer in the United States alone. Of those, about 8,000 dies as a result of the said disease. So it has caught the attention of health experts from around the world and many countries have taken steps to slow this statistic if not totally prevent the [...]
Read More..>>Scientists have identified the protein which is responsible for the development of a mole into a tumor or for the skin feature to remain, well simply a mole. Skin melanoma’s have the skin’s pigment producing cells running amok causing one of the deadliest forms of cancer in the world that is responsible for many deaths [...]
Read More..>>There are billions of dollars being spent on the various types of skin cancers out in the world that kills millions every year. This is a common case of economics and the need to earn money where pharmaceutical firms pour money into research that would be most profitable for their business. Many sufferers are crying [...]
Read More..>>Study into the treatment and cause of a very rare type of skin cancer called Merkel Cell Carcinoma is not going as fast as it should and many are dying due to this. This form of skin cancer is very hard to diagnose, leaving even well seasoned dermatologists to let it go as a simple [...]
Read More..>>Just recently, scientists have discovered that skin cancers such as mucosal and acral melanomas are brought about by a number of DNA abnormalities that happens in a gene called the KIT gene. Scientists say that if they can figure the mutation out, there is a great possibility of creating cures for it as well.
Melanoma is [...]
There is a finding that the disease modifying drug Methotrexate (MTX), may be carcinogenic.
Methotraxate is usually administered to people with rheumatoid arthritis, a chronic inflammatory disease which affects 1 percent of adults worldwide. Rheumatoid arthritis often leads to disability and eventually a diminished quality of life, it can also cause an early death as [...]
That protein is called Mcl-1, a part of the Bcl-2 protein family that brings about resistance to anoikis in cancerous skin cells. The drug is used to target the cancer cells themselves to go into premature cell death or programmed death, stimulating it to end its own life and reducing the spread of the disease. [...]
Read More..>>There has been a long standing debate over the link between skin melanomas and pregnancy which has yet to deliver a verdict on the possible link of exaggerated manifestation during pregnancy when the woman’s body is undergoing extreme hormonal changes. One side says there is no such link but another group of melanoma researchers are [...]
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