The University of California, San Diego‘s Sanford Stem Cell Institute will host three headliners – Nobel ... prize winners include: Other keynote speakers include John Dick, a Canada Research ...

researcher James Allison found a way to use the body’s own immune system to kill malignant cells, a discovery that’s transforming cancer treatment ...

Stem cell research is still a new field within biology ... that a nucleus can return to a pluripotent state – in a sense back in development. Gurdon got the Nobel prize in physiology and medicine ...

Nearly 60,000 people are diagnosed with oral cancer in the U.S. every year, according to the American Cancer Society, and the rate of new cases continues to rise.

Cancer immunotherapy pioneers James Allison and Tasuku Honjo have been awarded this year’s Nobel Prize in Physiology ... and thereby unleashing our immune cells to attack tumours.

including the Albert Lasker Basic Medical Research Award and Lasker-DeBakey Clinical Medical Research Award. The Shaw Prize, widely regarded as the "Nobel of the East," was established in 2002 to ...

Nobel laureate Shinya Yamanaka called his decision to step down as director of Kyoto University’s Center for iPS Cell Research and Application (CiRA) at the end of March "one of the biggest ...

Nobel Prize-winning stem cell biologist ... Yamanaka, a harbinger in research of induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cells, said that he decided to branch out at a time of need in the world.

Shinya Yamanaka discovered that four genes are capable of reprogramming an adult mouse cell into a cell in an embryonic stem cell-like state—called an induced pluripotent stem (iPS) cell—which can ...

This year's Nobel Prize for Physiology ... and tumor cells. Drugs that regulate NO release are under development for the treatment of heart disease, high blood pressure, cancer and toxic shock ...

Harald zur Hausen, awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology ... leader in a number of research areas including stem cell research, bioinformatics and systems biology, cancer genomics, neurooncology ...